End of our stay was ruined by trying to use the washing machine. The machine was missing the open button. Did not do a final spin to dry out the clothes (ran it two times right before checking out) and we had to leave with a big plastic bag of wet laundry. And then to top it all off, accusations from Joana that we had broken the button during our stay. Left us with a very unpleasant experience.
The place itself was very nice, like in the pictures, and very spacious. The location was very convenient as well (except for the night noise).
Some of the downsides to be aware of:
- The street noise everyone is writing about is pretty real. There are two caffès right down from the windows of the main bedroom, and the noise went on until 3am (on weekdays).
- The apartment itself doesn’t have A/C and it was uncomfortably hot during the night, even with the fans provided (we stayed there in July). It was cooler with the windows open at night, but could not leave them open when sleeping because of the noise.
- Specific to our stay: there was no hot water when we arrived. But when the person helping us with the checkin came back to collect our early checkin payment, got it fixed pretty quickly.