Really nice place with a spectacular view of company gardens and table mountain. Clean, well maintained and private. And nice and quiet despite the fact it’s only one block over from noisy Long Street. Everything needed is within walking distance including supermarkets, laundromats, bars and restaurants and tourism. I rented the place for a total of 16 consecutive nights.
I found the bed a little hard but maybe that’s just me. A thin memory foam mattress liner on the top of it would be the practical solution to resolve this then client can have it either firm or soft. I was able to cook all my own meals in the nice little kitchen which was practically layed out and very usable. The only thing missing in my opinion was a small conventional counter top oven, as it’s not possible to cook frozen pizza in a microwave oven. Also it has one of those Smeg pseudo Art Deco fridges which look nice and retro, but never work as they contain no compressor, and thus can’t have a freezer compartment and way to small to put anything inside of. A small regular office fridge sitting in the same space would be way more practical and useable and probably half the price. The lounge is a nice deco piece but weird to sit in. Would be better as a small pull out Sofa bed in my opinion.
There is cable tv which was nice to have as I was able to watch world or local news and most other AirBnB places didn’t have this. Also the WiFi worked without problems 24/7.
Supposedly there was always the possibility of water and power outages, but that never affected me whilst I was there fortunately.
The only problem I experiences was the elevator didn’t function at all for the first 8 days I stayed there and I wasn’t told this till I was traveling to the penthouse from the airport. Being on the tenth floor and at age 61 that was no easy feat to go get there. I was told by other residents in the building it often doesn’t function.
Robert was a good host, but I didn’t need to have contact with him as there wasn’t any issues other than the elevator not functioning.