The apartment.
The apartment is centrally located for shopping and leisure, the V&A Waterfront is a 10 min stroll away with wonderful restaurants and scenes in between. The apartment is in stark contrast to the building;
The apartment was pleasant and calm in comparison to the building where there was constant construction going on resulting in the lax access control as the workers would often hold the entrance door open with a makeshift door stop allowing zero access control during most of the daytime. There was a persistent buzz from the other tenants extending well into midnight where you would often hear people excitedly speaking or shouting and something which was bothersome was the disregard for health and safety with tenants not wearing masks or socially distancing.
My Stay.
I had a myriad of issues that negatively affected my stay which resulted in me having to move out of the apartment a month before planned. The place was not inspected or cleaned for my arrival and I had to deal with a flea infestation affecting my health and by extension my work, the place has wonderful potential but the host has to be mindful about the issues pointed out.
The Host.
Mary-Anne is very accessible and responsive, she tried her best to alleviate the issues and I appreciate that in a host, this attitude of her's rescued me from having a very unpleasant experience, she also refunded me for the month that I had to move out and was very compassionate and easy to have this difficult conversation with.