The listing was completely accurate. Denis was an excellent host. He was fully engaged by e-mail and SMS before we arrived, and then when we reached the apartment we were very pleasantly surprised to find that he had stocked it with eggs, bread, fruit, milk, tea, coffee, butter and so on. This was a very nice, and totally unexpected, touch.

Not only that, we arrived later than expected, and needed somewhere for dinner. Denis immediately showed us, by walking us most of the way there, where to find a selection of restaurants.

The apartment is about 30 minutes walk from the centre of Dublin. This was fine for us, as we enjoy walking. For anyone that doesn’t, there are plenty of buses and taxis available. Our only slight reservation was that it is located on the edge of what seemed to us not to be a particularly salubrious area of Dublin. This didn’t impact on our stay though.