Pros:
- Distance from Dublin tourist attractions. You're just across the river from everything.
- Apartment size for the price. You get two bedrooms, a kitchen, washer/dryer combo, dishwasher, living room.
Cons:
- Host Communication, Shower, and Toilet: To work the shower, you need to go into a separate room and turn on the heating pump, wait for it to heat up, and then the shower water will come out. Our host did not tell us this, so we spent the first few days of our stay with NO SHOWER. Eventually, after I begged for days for an explanation, we finally found out that an entirely separate room had the key to unlocking the shower. It was a nightmare to not be able to shower for days after traveling internationally in the middle of the summer, and I solely blame David for not explaining even though I immediately asked why the shower wasn't working. The toilet also can only be flushed about once an hour. It's incredibly old plumbing.
- Location. You're right over some bars, and not the nicer ones south of the Liffey. It's a seedy area and we didn't feel safe as women walking home at night. We watched multiple physical fights break out right in front of our gate and the loud yelling and banging never ceased. It was tough to spend hours trying to fall asleep only to be woken up at 7 AM by someone throwing and breaking glass bottles on the ground beneath our apartment.
- Check-in. We joke now that our check-in process was something of an escape room. The host provided the wrong address, and we spent a good hour trying to figure out where the pictured apartment actually was, wandering through alleys and sneaking by fistfights. Once we found the apartment, we learned that the key was in fact about a block away, hidden in a lock box attached to one of many parking meter poles. It's an absolute disaster of a check-in process, and the lack of guest communication was truly the cherry on top.