We booked this flat purely for the canal view.
We arrived and every single window and balcony was covered with scaffolding.
All the windows also had mesh covering the scaffolding so you couldn’t see out at all and there balcony’s you could only see scaffolding unless you learn right over and go glimpses of the canal.
We was annoyed but didn’t complain as we wasn’t going to be in the room too much.
7.30am it sounded like someone was drilling in our bedroom ans banging a hammer. I messaged the host who replied “we can’t do anything about our neighbours” I said to them this isn’t neighbours this is the whole building, I sent photos of the scaffolding and videos of how loud it was. In messages the host has lighted me, wasn’t helpful, told me to check out, even though he knew we were travelling with children and he wouldn’t have refunded my money. I said this to him and he ignored me.
We came back to the flat at lunchtime for a rest and some lunch, there were workmen walking past our windows and balcony’s, forgetting how loud it was we went straight back out.
When I got out the shower that morning walking in my towel into the lounge and there were workmen at the balcony window on the scaffolding.
We were only here for 2 nights and if it was any longer we would have lost our money and booked somewhere else. Not being able to look out of your windows and balcony, and staying in what sounds like a building site and workmen walking past your windows. Is not what you want when you’ve paid nearly €400 for 2 nights.
If the host had been really apologetic and offered a solution I wouldn’t have been left feeling so disgruntled.
But I will say the apartment itself os perfect, clean, large, and in the best location. It would have been a perfect stay without the scaffolding, workmen, and loud building noises throughout the whole of our stay.
If you book this please message the host to check when the scaffolding is going and the building work is stopping. Get him to check with the owner. Otherwise this will ruin your stay here like it did mine.