We stayed in this apartment for 3 nights (Saturday-Tuesday).
PROS:
-Location is brilliant. So close to Temple Bar
- Close to a 24 hr SPAR supermarket (which has hot food, coffee, pastries, sandwich bar, plus drinks, snacks etc).
- Communication with Dee is fantastic. She is so helpful and gave a detailed house manual before we arrived.
- Apartment is clean
- The couch is large and comfortable if you want a 2nd bed.
- Dee left us some chocolate bars, which was kind and thoughtful.
CONS:
- Noise from the street level in the lounge room isn't great.
- Being so close to Temple Bar, you can hear pub music from the bedroom on the weekend.
- The shower only gave luke warm water and even though Dee gave detailed instructions on how to get it hot, it just didn't work. The shower is a European electric shower and I even googled it to get some instructions, but we still could not get hot water. She did offer the use of a 2nd bathroom with was next door, so that was very kind of her.
- The apartment is up 60 stairs with no elevator and they are very narrow. So very hard getting large luggage up and down.
- Initially the apartment was hard to find, as the door to the street looks like you are going inside the restaurant Forno 500, but after we worked the location out if was easy.
- The bed was awful if sharing with someone as it is very small and sinks in the middle. I ended up sleeping on the couch, but thank goodness the couch is large and comfortable.
** I recommend Dee to put in some photos of the actual first door of the street level and also photos of what needs to be switched on inside the apartment for future guests.