The apartment was spacious and clean with some really nice features except for the toilet in the utility room looking into the sitting room (weird!) with no lock on the glass door. The views from the windows were dismal. Although it is located very close to the historic centre of the city, the area is appallingly filthy and noisy. Our neighbours didn't seem to care much about keeping the shouting down, banging doors even very late at night . The side streets were particularly sickening where rubbish is dumped liberally everywhere. Walking on the side streets is unpleasant due the mostly tiny broken footpaths and dangerous traffic which appears to always have the right of way, even on pedestrian crossings. We felt our hosts were indifferent to our arrival as they chose to leave the check in duties to a third party...