We stayed at Mauri's apartment for 3 nights with a group of 10 people.
Reveiw: Mauri - Mauri was a pleasure to communicate with, he answered every question promptly and clearly.
He was helpful, forthcoming and runs a clean setup with good and clear guidelines.
Overall a very nice experience!
Reveiw: Apartment - The apartment is a modern place located in a quiet, nice and safe part of Oslo.
It has 3 bedroms, 1 with a double bed and a single bed, 2 with a double bed.
So 7 regular bedspots, there are also 2 field beds/mobile folding beds which can be placed either in the living room or in the bedroms.
There is also a sleeping couch that can be folded out to a double bed.
We had no problem fitting 10 people in there and the 2 modern bathrooms came in pretty handy.
The kitchen is open and spacious with all the utensils we needed.
There are few signs of wear and tear around the apartment, these are all minor and made little to no differance to us but are worth mentioning.
#1 The key to the first floor bathroom was missing - We solved this by letting the door stay open when the bathroom was available and closed when occupied, a knock on the door was also used to check if someone had forgotten to open the door.
#2 The same door mentioned in #1 also had the handle shield loose and put on the wrong way. (the round disk between the handlebar and door)
#3 The faucet in the bathroom mentioned above was loose and could be moved to the sides. ( This MIGHT be a designed festure, I didn't check the mounting/skrews under the sink but at first glance it seemed like it was due to wear.
#4 The sink in the same bathroom was draining the water pretty slow, this was easily fixed by pouring some dran-o and hot water into it.
#5 There wasn't enough towels to accommodate all 10 of us, this was no problem since it was made clear early in the communication with Mauri, so most of us brought our own towels.
We came into Oslo by train and the apartment is only 10-15min walk from the train station, which made the apartment a perfect match for us as everything we wanted to experience in Oslo was within a 25min walk from the apartment.
Summary: Mauri is a nice and structured host, the apartment has a great location and good/modern condition with alot of space.
This all made the stay a overall pleasant and joyful experience, we would definitely stay there again!
Im rating the stay at 4 out 5 stars, Im holding back 1 star because Im picky about giving out 5/5 since that would imply that everything was top notch perfect with nothing to improve on.