The room has a lovely view (especially at sunset!) and is very well situated, and Tiago / GuestReady responded very fast to our messages. However, we have to be honest and say that we were overall disappointed with our stay.
Firstly, the main reasons we chose to stay were for these: wifi & dedicated workspace as we had to write essays for uni while there, the sofa to sit and relax, and the view from the balcony.
Firstly, I’m not sure which sofa they meant as the room had very little furniture and definitely no sofa. The sofa in the photos is in a communal room 3 floors below.
Unfortunately the wifi did not work the entire time we were there and when we mentioned it we were told to find the router and electrical box which as much as we looked we couldn’t find, I’m not sure whether the person messaging us got this room mixed up with another GuestReady property? We had to pay for our own data popups to do our work, and spend less time in the flat than hoped as we had to find other places with wifi. We were reimbursed only €27 on a €332 stay and considering this was the main reason we chose this place over others, and that we spend more than than on data top ups we were disappointed.
One day, we came back from a day out to find part of the chandelier had fallen leaving a hand sized chunk of it and a lot of ash on the bed and the ash had fallen on my boyfriend’s new €850 laptop. Luckily it does not seem to have damaged it, however it gave us a scare and as it could not be fixed until the next day, we had to move the bed as we were scared it would perhaps fall on us overnight. Luckily it didn’t fall and was fixed the next day (however only with tape temporarily).
Our final disappointment is that after the stay, we were issued with a €75 fine for having apparently created a hole in the curtain. We are certain that this was not caused by us as we checked the room before leaving. We even had to return an hour later to check we hadn’t forgotten our house keys in the room and spoke to the cleaners who had stripped the bed of its sheets and at that point there also was not a hole in the curtain. I am not sure if anyone else had access to the room but GuestReady is investigating it. If we are charged then we will be even more disappointed, especially as after the other bad parts mentioned above, which we understand are partly out of control of the owners, we had tried to stay so positive and focus on all the wonderful things about the flat.
I would recommend the flat just please go in with your eyes wide open and read the reviews so that you get what you are expecting.