I will try to give a real and objective feedback of our stay at Rune’s apartment. A bit more informations than the simple “it’s good and well located” kind of comments.
Overall, we had a pretty good time at Rune’s appartement.
The location is incredible, next to Karl Johan Gate, you will find everything you need and more. The transports are down the street which is very convenient and it’s quite calm for an apartment in downtown. The building is very very quiet, we did not hear any noise from inside the building. We were a bit bothered by the tram that is passing down the street but aware of it before booking and it was really fine, the apartment is in a capital city not in the Lofoten :).
The room on the mezzanine is ok, but the stairs to go up are very steep and if you are tall be careful not to bump your head on the side of the ceiling, it happened to me twice (Not much the host can do about it but the upstairs part is a bit small).
The shower is good and the heater on the floor is amazing.
AC, was the cohost and we were only in touch with him. He was replying very fast to our messages and very helpful. We did not get any contact with the host.
Maybe it would be a big plus to put bigger curtains to hide the lights from the buildings in the other side of the streets. These buildings are hosting offices and rarely switch off their lights, which is pretty annoying when you sleep in the sofa bed if you are not used too. There is not black out system in the flat which must be annoying during summer because of the almost constant sun in Oslo (sunrise at 4.30am in June).
However, the cleaning of the flat was not the best at all. The couch was full of crusts, a lot of dust was present under the couch and behind the furnitures, especially the one of the entrance. It was really gross to open the sofa bed and see the amount of hairs and food rest stuck on what was my mattress.
If you have dust allergies, you might consider another place or asking the host for a real cleaning.
Let’s say that the flat was clean for Airbnb photos but when you stay 1 week in the place, you can really see that it’s so so.
Although the linen were washed, there were blood stains on one cover for the sofa bed and on the linen of the bed, this is not really nice.
I guess it doesn’t cost much to change them for the next guess ?
We did not use the kitchen so I can’t say if everything was working or not. However we did not find it very attractive. The home appliance are old and some cooking tools would deserved to be changed or washed better.
Conclusion : very nice stay but the cleaning needs to be improved especially in time of covid-19. For this reason I would not book again in Rune’s flat.