I can start off by saying the positive - which was that this location is right in the center of all the restaurants and pubs so it is great. However, there were a quite of bit of turn offs while we stayed.
- The place is a bit hard to find, and we called the contact person Laura had given and he wasn’t responsive right away (as well as herself). If it’s the day of, I would like to be able to have a contact that will quickly respond. Once I got in touch with the person, they gave me a time they would meet me by so we waited the hour (which I told him We would be literally waiting outside in the car with our bags) and it was 20 minutes past the time he gave so I called again and he responded saying oh ok I’ll send someone to open the door. He already knew we were waiting outside the gate because I told him when I called first, it would be common courtesy to let us know someone is there. Anyway, we never ended up meeting him either because the ladies cleaning the house came out and showed us around and had us come back once they finished cleaning (they were very sweet and friendly).
- Getting out of the place is convenient as long as it’s before 8pm because you can leave through a big department store, however, if you leave or come home last 8pm, you have to use a back alleyway and come up a quite a bit of stairs (no public elevator). That was very inconvenient. Also, I didn’t mind because I had my husband with me, but if it was just myself and my girlfriends, I don’t necessarily know if I would like to walk back to this place late night although the lady cleaning the place that showed us around assured us that it was fine when we said we didn’t feel comfortable.
- We got one free parking pass, however, the first day we got it it hadn’t worked so we told the cleaning lady since she was the only main point of contact and she called the host (or her main contact) in front of us and he told her to get it fixed. She said she would get it fixed and leave it for us. When we tried to use it it still didn’t work. When I contacted Laura she responded and said to have them re-set it which I had done myself already. Either way, the process is inconvenient - you come in with the car to the floor it’s on, you have to get the card from the apartment, then you have to go back out of the garage with the car and pay whatever that cost is, and then come back in the with card so that it doesn’t charge you (but they had to buzz us in because ours never worked). Then when you leave, they want you to use the card and then park your car outside somewhere and then come back up and drop the card off to the apartment. If it was just one person staying here, it would be SUPER inconvenient. The cleaning lady said to make sure to drop it off though or they would charge me $100 euros.

My biggest issue is cleanliness -
- The bathrooms were not very clean (some mold in the grout, dated etc. Also, wasn’t aware it was an electric water heater and the water flow was not great if you wanted a hot shower. If I showered first and my husband showered after, he didn’t really have water that was too hot.
- There were spider webs in the corners of the room (mostly by the kitchen and living room).
- This part grossed us out the most. We had our friends staying in the other room (a couple) and they found men’s underwear when they got into their bed. I contacted Laura about this and she said it may have been a mix up because they give the sheets to a company to wash and it might’ve came back in that. Either way if you are fully taking the sheets off of a bed and putting new sheets on, then how would you not see these? This was a big turnoff because we didn’t know if the sheets were just fixed after the previous people stayed in the same bed. In a stack of white sheets you would see if there was multi colored men’s briefs tangled in. Totally unacceptable.
If this was based on solely location, I would definitely recommend because you are in the heart of the town, however, I would not choose this property again, I would just choose something in the same area.