Our stay at Denise’s place far exceeded our expectations. She gave us the option for self check in as we are from the US and would only be able to contact her when we were connected to WiFi. So rather then stressing over making sure we rushed to meet her in a specific timeframe, Denise gave us very specific instructions on how to find her apartment, where to park, and where to find the key to get into the apartment.
Once entering the apartment, we found a binder on the table including EVERYTHING we could’ve possibly needed - info on the heat, hot water, towels, food in the pantry and fridge, parking, along with a ton of suggestions of what to do/where to go/what to eat in both the neighborhood and in the city centre. These recommendations included snippets on the restaurants, pubs, attractions along with directions of how to walk there and how long it should take you to walk there. She even broke the restaurants down into subgroups of the type of atmosphere they were.
All in all, everything about our stay was perfect. Although never meeting Denise due to self checkin and checkout, I feel like we had since she was so responsive through messaging. I would love to stay at Denise’s place again the next time I visit Galway!