Description of residence is totally accurate. Comfy bed, very quiet for the area which can be teaming especially on the weekend. Definitely within walking distance of all hot spots, museums, Temple Bar, public transportation. 7 minutes walk to the nearest Airlink Bus stop to/from the airport. One can get anywhere on the island from here. Seems very secure with 4 locks/doors to enter into the apartment itself. Internet is speedy enough for us and never went down. Never used the stove. Refrigerator works. Small capacity washer/dryer is in the kitchen. People from the States (us) would likely be unfamiliar with this type machine and we had to look up the user manual online to understand how it works. The owner’s assistant gave slightly different info on it’s operation than the apparent manual. It uses liquid detergent and not powder. I’m not 100% sure of the model number but the user’s manual that worked great for us was the Hoover WDXA 4851 (don’t forget the space between the letters and numbers when looking up the manual online at service.hoover.co.uk). I’m suggesting to the owners that they supply this manual for future occupants. It really helped. The bathroom facilities all worked well. The shower is really nice and roomy for European standards I’ve experienced. The hot/cold water sides on the sink are backwards. If you don’t feel hot water, try the other direction. Never ran out of hot water. Oh, and NEVER saw any bugs in the place for our duration.
We had 2 issues. Understand that we opted not to tell the ownership about these issues as we didn’t want to be tied down to the place when we wanted to see the sights of Dublin. I’m sure they would have come over to help us quickly but the issues were not important enough to us to wait around.
1) The only heater (electric) that was pointed out was in the bedroom and inoperable. I tried everything. Did not matter as it wasn’t needed during my early October stay. But this issue should be resolved so that future occupants have heat at the push of a button. Noticed another electric heater on our own under the bistro table. It was not shown to us at the initial meeting. It probably works but we didn’t try it.
2) The TV system was described as “Just push the on button and you have TV”. Well no. No channels were apparently available. I tried everything. Didn’t really matter but it would be good for background noise. My theory is that a previous occupant messed around with the system and made it inoperable unbeknownst to the ownership. I consider it my fault that we did not turn the TV on when the initial meeting was underway. It would be great if there are step by step instructions with Do’s and Don’ts.
Summary: great place to sign up for. Just a few tweaks needed for perfection.