The building and entrance hallway is beautiful. I love old historical buildings and this one is well maintained and decorated lovely. I rented the studio apartment, it was large, with 3 big windows for nice lighting, it was very clean and Karin provided us some breakfast food, eggs, milk, coffee, tea and homemade cereal. Karin wasn't able to meet us when we arrived but arranged for us to pick up the keys. Our only problem was we didn't know the apartment was on the second floor and had to take heavy suitcases up 4 flights of stairs but after we got our suitcases up to our apartment the stairs were no problem. We were within walking distance to all the places we wanted to see, for some the walking maybe considered a bit far but we are used to walking long distances in a day. It's about 2 miles to walk into the heart of downtown and only a mile to catch the tour bus. Karin was a lovely hostess when she got home she came down to greet us and explained how to use everything in the apartment and gave us suggestions as to what Dublin had to offer and places to see. She brought us some homemade bread the next morning, that was delicious. Even with having to climb 4 flights of stairs with heavy suitcases, I would definitely stay here again.