Spacious and comfortable apartment located on the top floor of a typical Copenhagen block in Nyhaven. So great location. Yes there are loads of stairs as the apartment is 5th floor and was not fun lugging suitcases up and down. But the advantage of being on the top floor is you don’t have to contend with others stampeding above you and you do get used to it.
The place was probably once very smart and had some nice features. It feels like a well loved and lived in family home now a bit battered by young kids and in need of a some care. It is certainly not luxury. The sofa covers were badly stained, the cushions on the chairs dirty, the rugs in the bedrooms could do with a good clean, bathroom needs some attention as it is mouldy around the shower and sink area (the photos online must be a good few years old), light bulbs missing or blown and not replaced (although I understand that was intentional as they like dim lighting). Lampshades falling off. Skirting in the kitchen damaged badly and not repaired. Nothing that couldn’t be rectified. We paid a lot of money to stay here for a week and have stayed in better over the last 3 years for less in Copenhagen so to be honest I expected more.
There was limited storage for our stuff, only two drawers in the small back bedroom & no hanging space so we ended up living out of suitcases. If you were staying long term this could be an issue.
The biggest problem was the street noise. It was horrible. The apartment is situated in a narrow street close to the water and on the corner is a bar outside which got lively at night with customers who would hang around until the early hours having a good time laughing and shouting and playing music. This went on relentlessly until 5am on Saturday morning. Sunday night was similar but felt worse as the rubbish trucks would then arrive early at around 6am so we had about three hours sleep. We live in Central London in the heart of the West End so are used to noise but not to this effect and it just went on and on night after night. By Wednesday night we’d had enough. The loud music from the street didn’t stop until 3.00 am. It was torture. Topped by the arrival of the 6am rubbish collection. It just pushed us to the edge and through lack of sleep we we decided to cut short our stay. I have no idea why any residents live with the continual disturbance?? It was a torturous experience.
We never met Yasmine but her check in instructions were simple, she sounded delightful in her messages and her restaurant recommendations were first rate. There was quite a few hours delay with her answering questions and 10 hours after I told her we’d left which surprised me especially as she said if I’d told her about the noise she might have been able to do something (bit late it was midnight before I heard back!) but I understand she was without WiFi or whatever where ever she was. I was fine with that we’d decided to go although others might not be. Though-out our stay she did send the odd sweet message and seemed to genuinely want us to have a good time.
Yasmine’s place is clearly a very happy, well loved family home. As evident from the reviews many guests have raved about her home which is what attracted me to it but the price did not reflect the standard of the place and the nightly noise disturbance was awful. I’m surprised no one has ever mentioned it and I couldn’t risk staying here with my family again.