TLDR: Find somewhere else to stay, there are superior places in Sea Point for 100-200 euros more per month. Stayed here for three weeks, and put up with it as accommodation in Cape Town is so hit and miss. Check in was very efficient, host comms was excellent, but ultimately this entire building has serious design flaws that does not suit long stays.
Review:
Bemusingly described as a "workers bee luxury pad", It should instead be described as a "flawed short stay apartment".
There is very little that makes this apartment "luxury" or suitable for those working from the apartment, unless you find concrete floors/ceilings luxury, and don't need to rely on a fast internet connection.
Quite why the host sells this place as "suitable" for workers where as one example - during load shedding - there isn't even back up lighting, is laughable. I had a torch, but if you don't, then you can feel your way to the front door and find something nearby to occupy yourself because the "worker bee" the host has descried evidently doesn't need wifi during load shedding either. The router needs electricity to run, something lost on the host, clearly.
Quite often my mobile would default to 4G rather than the "worker bee" apartment Wi-Fi, and many times YouTube videos would stream in 240p.
"Productivity" is a word the host uses in the description of the listing. Not sure what the host thinks that word means, especially when it comes to load shedding.
The building itself has the ventilation of a 1900s London Victoria-era building, despite being brand new. That is, there is no ventilation. It is hilariously badly designed to maximise profits, including the basement parking, which I will explain further on below.
There is a window in the bathroom.
Nothing dries, made worse with the jailhouse concrete walls and ceilings trap cold then release it during the day. My bath and hand towel never dried. They were always wet. The apartment was at times cold during Autumn. In the winter it will be borderline uninhabitable, especially as nothing dries.
I washed some laundry on the Friday night and by Sunday morning, despite using the included clothes horse (this is one of the few plus points) in sunlight during the day, most of my clothing were still wet. That was incredibly "productive" because I had to pack my luggage that same morning as well. Cue a lost hour trying to dry my clothes with the hairdryer.
The kitchenette is well equipped with plenty of saucepans. Curiously, there is no strainer and at least for safety reasons, one should be included, especially if the apartment is trying to sell itself for long term stays.
The drainer is in the cupboard, which is another curious (terrible) design feature of the apartment, including the metal-meshed partition that you have to slide in front of the bed to access the drawers, and then back again to get into bed.
I did say jailhouse chic.
The bed itself and bedding is comfortable.
The apartment does get sunlight during the day, but it is also plagued by seagulls, probably because the garbage area is located directly to the right of the front of the building.
That segues nicely onto the to the "private patio". You will notice it has no furniture and that stands for reason. All of those seagulls need a toilet.
That's the patio garden. Enjoy!
Finally, the underground parking, which was both frustrating and (surprise, surprise) badly designed. The wireless key fob only works to enter, not to exit.
To exit, you must navigate a very tight turn. If you have a large/long vehicle, you will need to carefully watch your turning circle. To maximise profits, the developers even crammed a car parking bay directly in front of the ramp, which makes a tight turn even tighter as you then navigate a car and two walls.
By the time you have got to the gate to exit, it would have shut again.
Security uses CCTV and the gate opens when you reach the first traffic light. You then have to bib your horn to get security to open the gate again. It is frustratingly pointless where surely the key fob could be used? But it can't.
So in summary, I would only recommend this place for a short stay and ideally in summer where the apartment won't become a refrigerator. If you need a fast internet connection or somewhere more "productive" to work during the day, this apartment is not it.