I had to answer who I’ll be coming with and what is our respective professions before a weekend booking was confirmed. All of that because apparently the trustees of the apartment block are extremely strict about the Airbnb let’s so Julie would just like to know as much as she can about her prospective guests. The booking was approved after I responded that the guest was my wife and we are both Engineers.
We arrived at 15:00 an hour earlier than the time Julie was expecting us and she was quick to come to the place, very responsive. Be prepared to take a lot of instructions and recommendations.
If you will be spending more than one night be prepared to clean the place yourself and wash the dishes - that came to our surprise when we returned Saturday evening. I understand the water situation in Cape Town, but the blankets and towels must be clean and smell fresh.
There’s a special technique to open/close the front gate that my wife couldn’t master, I always had to be romantic and open/close it for her.
Lastly, please check out before 10:00 am. I was in the shower around 10:10 am, my wife was finishing up packing in the kitchen. I heard this loud scariest banging at the door and my wife rushed to the shower. The load banging continued, I told my wife, shaking at that time, that the door was locked so she can check who it was as I was still in the shower. I thought it was a security guard perhaps, but I didn’t recall seeing any at the front gate or perhaps maybe someone not in a good mood coming to clean the place. It turned out it was Julie herself, she was there to clean as the place was already booked for Sunday evening. We were out around 10:20. When I finished closing the pedestrian gate in the front of the block, I had already decided that I’m never coming back to this place again. I've had much better experiences before. My experience with Julia and her place was not that comforting.