My girlfriend and I spent ten days in Tom's apartment while we were staying in Dublin for our vacation.

Tom was really nice, gave us a tour of the apartment and even took the time to tell us about sights we could visit and good restaurants we could go to.

The apartment itself is located in a larger apartment building in a nice residential neighbourhood in Kilmainham. There are two bus stops right outside the building as well as Luas stops nearby. We've also counted five Dublin Bikes stands we could reach by foot. We even walked into the city center a couple of times. It is also pretty easy to reach the Kilmainham Jail, Phoenix Park and the Irish Museum of Modern Art by foot. So the location is pretty great.

We, unfortunately, also had some problems with the apartment. The most important one was the bed: We hat problems sleeping in there since the mattress was really hard and has probably seen better times.

Our second problem was the Internet connection: The apartment is only equipped with a mobile 3G dongle not with a landline connection. Therefore, the Internet in the apartment was slow. In addition, Tom didn't book a plan with unlimited data usage included. We therefore hit the data limit after four days. Tom added some credit after he came back from a trip, but that only lasted for an evening. Therefore, the Internet wasn't usable for more than half of the time.

Overall, the apartment was okay, but in hindsight we would probably choose another one.