First, the building is really well located, there is a Spar close if you need a supermarket and you can go to the waterfront by foot too. You can see Bo-kaap neighborhood from your apartment and get some sun at the end of the day. The swimming pool is clean and get lots of sun during the day ☀️
We also really appreciated having toiletries (shower gel and conditioner) and towels. There is salt, pepper and olive oil in the kitchen, as well as coffee and tea which is always so nice to have.
On the down side, we really struggled to find the parking entrance of the building. It was not mentioned how to access it in the explanations received (took us 1h to find it). To get the keys of the apartment wasn’t easy either as I struggled to open the lock where the keys were supposed to be for 15 minutes only to finally meet someone telling me they work for the company and hadn’t put the apartment keys back in the lock just yet and hadn’t entered the new code to open it…. Maybe a better communication among the employees would be great for the visitor.
Another issue was the couch in the living room. The smell of transpiration emanating from it was so strong, we had to put towels on it during our stay to be able to sit. There was also a big stain of white fluid on it… No doubt it had been vacuumed but probably a good deep clean is needed. We also didn’t have access to any cleaning tools such as broom, mop, vacuum etc so when you stay for several days it gets a bit uncomfortable.
Finally, the bedroom opens onto… the main corridor, which means you can never open your bedroom window and you always have to keep the blinds closed on this side; that is not shown in the pictures. Also the main door to the apartment only closes with 1 lock so I would say it would be pretty easy for people in the building to break into your room. Maybe 2 locks on the door would be better (even though you have a safe in the apartment).