Marie’s home is a very unique place full of character. This being said, we also found some difficulty with it. My wife and I stayed there with our 3 children for 1 month. Here is our assessment:
PROS:
• Amazing location
• Keyless entry
• Reasonable amount of stairs (easily manageable)
• Nice/quiet dishwasher
• Very comfortable beds
• Smart TV
• Amazing air conditioning
CONS:
• Extremely cluttered (difficult to walk through the apartment)
• Broken furniture
• Extremely chlorinated water*
• Dirty/stained mattresses
• Extreme water temperature fluctuation
• Water pressure fluctuation
• Extremely small kitchen
• Dirty dishes
• Silverware stored in broken & dirty jars
• No counter space in bathrooms or kitchen
• Dresser drawers wouldn’t open
• Very dusty throughout apartment
• Terrace very cluttered
• Can’t open windows during mosquito season
• Loud and inconsiderate neighbors (stomping & yelling until 2am most nights)
*Water was chlorinated to the extent that it caused skin rashes & would burn your nose when showering, using the sink, or running the dishwasher.
All this being said, we really enjoyed our month-long stay... however, there were a number of obstacles we had to overcome in order to do so. The water chlorination was a huge problem, and there were so many mosquitoes that I lost sleep most nights. It took the majority of our stay to be able to kill all the mosquitoes that got into the apartment from the first two days that we opened the windows. The high ceilings are amazing, but it allowed a safe harbor for mosquitoes for weeks.