The apartment has a lot of potential and looks nice on the pictures and at first sight even in reality. Its position is central and romantic - if you don‘t mind the gondoliers singing all day long.
At a closer look however, you quickly become aware of the lacking maintenance this apartment has had for quite some time. The freezer compartment was overflowing with ice, we first had to defrost it in order to be able to close its door. We first had to decalsify the watertaps as there was practically no more water running out of them in the kitchen and the bathroom. Electrical appliances with German plugs and only one adaptor - so either make coffee, hot water or watch tv, but only one at a time. Kitchen with sticky doors for lack of cleaning, extractor fan in the kitchen full of grease, extractor in the bathroom not working, etc.... There is only one cupboard to use for a 3 person apt., all others being full of useless items put in them in disorder. Dishwasher and washing machine of the 70s, the rent should provide to afford new ones... Spotlights in bathroom hanging down as they are not well fixed any longer which can be really dangerous.
We communicated the landlord several problems and were offered an extra cleaning. We turned this offer down as we realized that a good maintenance would need at least an entire day of work for a maintenance crew and we didn’t want this interference with our holidays.
I hope the landlord will resolve the problems, then this apartment would be nice.