Very nice cheery clean space with lots of sunlight. It’s quiet and private. The windows look out onto the backyard garden and you can see the neighbor’s backyard & garden spaces as well, but surprisingly for a city, the way it’s situated, there’s complete privacy. None of the neighbor’s windows are facing you and there is minimal to no light pollution.
Eileen responded to my emails promptly and was there to meet me when I arrived in the afternoon. She gave me the key and the run down on how things worked, gave me directions to Woodstock cafe and Tesco grocery down the road and then left me to myself. The apartment has a common front door and foyer hall but both the apartment and Eileen’s living quarters have separate locked entries from the foyer hall (Like an apartment building would).
Of note, many spaces I looked at in Ireland (including hotels) did not include bathtubs, only showers. This space has both a bath tub and shower which I great appreciated because I’m a bath taker. Also appreciated: There were several Dublin guidebooks on the bookshelf which was convenient and helpful.
I liked the neighborhood too. Eileen’s place is on a quiet side street off a busier street and just up the road are lots of café’s, pubs, and a Tesco shopping mart, vibrant, but more neighborly and less frenetic than Temple Bar or O'Connell street which is wall to wall tourists. It’s about a 15-20 minute walk to Temple Bar area which, again, is very touristy and noisy, so I was glad to head back to Eileen’s apartment to sleep, have dinner in a neighborhood cafe, and relax.
I would definitely stay there again.