The location of the apartment was great. The amenities were as described. Overall the experience was dampened largely by the smell and a few other things. The apartment had a constant rancid sewage odour. I do not believe this to be a one-off issue and the agent was clearly aware of this issue when they let the apartment to us. I contacted the agent, they dispatched the cleaning team, who poured additional caustic substances to try and alleviate the smells. This was all but temporary and in a matter of an hour, the smells were back. As there are three bathrooms, spread out around the apartment, the smell engulfed flat, entirely. One bathroom was unusable. In an attempt to reduce the smells, we closed the bathroom doors and left the extractor fans on all day and where possible, we opened windows. The smell is so pungent that you could almost taste it at times - particularly if you were unfortunate enough to be leaning over a sink, brushing your teeth, when a wave of smells came from the drains.
The shower in the bathroom nearest the living room, nearly flooded on first use. The water did not drain and upon investigation, we realised there was a lot of hair in the drain. Bearing in mind that one shower was already unusable due to the smell, we had no choice but to fish out globs of hair in order to continue making use of the shower.
There was so much potential but the smell and the clear disregard from the agent about this evident systemic issue with the drain, rather put a stain on our trip. The apartment is memorable for all the wrong reasons.