The place looks a lot different in real than in the photos. It’s a small and really (!) dark place. It’s in the basement and a wall is right in front of the window which doesn’t let much sunlight in.
The place wasn’t tidy when I arrived there (dust, spiders, spider webs…). Also clothes moths are coming in from the outside, as there is no fly screen. The window wasn’t closing right, which I told Paul and he never responded to it. I asked Paul how to get the blinds to stay up to even get the smallest bit of light but he couldn’t tell me.
The first day the room was freezing cold, the heating wasn’t on and wasn’t working. I’ve asked Paul a couple of times for instructions, but he didn’t know it and eventually didn’t reply anymore, which left me sleeping with my hat gloves winterjacket and towels as blankets. When I finally got the heat to work, it took forever until the room was warm and it never stayed at the same temperature. Strangely the light in the bathroom always turns on when the heating is working.
As to the bathroom: it is so small you can’t even sit down well on the toilet because you can’t fit your legs and it is broken so the seat moves all the time. The line for the water under the sink was also broken so all my stuff which I stored in the small shelf underneath got wet and I had to throw away some stuff. When somebody came to fix it he left my place really dirty. Also there is mold and the wetness stays for a long time after taking a shower. My hair drier was broken when I first arrived, there was no laundry detergent and no place to hang clothes after they were washed.
The fuse also regularly burned, which also left me with having to reset the heating again.
As of Paul: Almost all the time his text and answers are automatic ones. So automatic that the codes he provided didn’t work at the checkout which left me 30 minutes trying for nothing. If you have Problems he is often late with answering, if he even answers. There are still some problems he never told me how to solve and I left after 7 weeks - so lots of time to answer. At least the easier ones were solved - like a broken hair dryer and toilet paper.
In the end I wouldn’t stay there again and it is ridiculous to get something like that for so so much money. The area is really nice though and you are fast in the city centre as there is a Luas stop.