Well, it was the most epic stay in my life , if you get what I mean:)
First of all I was born in Riga and nothing gonna stop me or scare me :neither this kind of building entrance, nore this segment of Riga "center". I love this region, it makes me nostalgic and filling me with a tender sorrow.
But.
Even though the price of stay is not so high, I expected that my stay will be much more comfortable.
First of all, I wanted to drink some coffee after crazy day, but the electric kettle there was completely burned and smelled with burned plastic, also weird parts of it's "abdomen" felt out as a black ashes. OK.
I found a little pot and after a long battle with electric stove I could make it and finally drink my coffe.I must admit that lack of normal tableware is very frustrating:no any tea spoons and soup plates, they do not have pan, etc. Only old pan they had was very dirty covered with grease. In general, all plates, pots, cups, etc were dirty. Kitchen cupboard shelves all where dirty, and it was not the fresh dirt as I can judge.
Second "surprise" consists of a regrettable fact that I realized that there is No any roll of toilet paper in the apartment. I looked everywere. No luck.
The host Irina was very nice and polite and brought me it the other day. But I needed it that day. I felt very lost without it, you know))
But, as we say, the cherry on top was time, when all electricity in the apartment just lost. Knowing the fact that all facilities in there are electrical :stove, boiler, heating, this is a very sad fact. So, we blew a fuse just using a stove to prepare a cup of coffee, not a dinner party for a 100 of guests.
That day we had a chance to recover a fuse, but next morning it just terminated and it was no reaction. So it probably died when we slept.
So, if you like quests and a bit of spice in your life :this is definitely your place.
But if you like just to have a bit of peace, choose another place.
From big pluses :the host is nice, polite and always on connection.
Very big king size bed with a very old mattress, who probably saw dinosaurs.
Very quite place, very nice view from the windows on old roofs
and not groomed yards, but I like it.
This is the special spirit of Sarkanarmijas (now Bruņinieku) street.
I guess the host needs to do more сlosely monitoring of the apartment in the future, buy some normal kitchen appliances, change this old mattress and everything gonna be just fine.