There are both good and bad things about this accommodation.
Good are:
- The apartment itself so to speak "in a vacuum". Nice big TV, clean and bright interior, welcome snack & a bottle of wine. All pottery & cutlery, all one would expect to find in the apartment is there. (With a possible exception of air conditioning unit, but it wasn't really hot outside, so I wasn't really looking)
- Communication with the host. Mandy & Dean were accommodating, allowed me to say a little longer than normal check out time.
Bad are:
- Location. I cannot say it is a nice neighborhood. Especially the final stretch of the road coming from the city center before the house. There are LOTS of buses. To the point that entire left lane (and sometimes two) are filled to the brim with them standing there for the last kilometer. Those are both long municipal buses as well as small, I guess, private micro-buses. And the last ones do not drive nicely! Some of them even have a sticker "forgive me for bad driving, so is my salary". I have found the last kilometer before the building to be pretty stressful. And overall I think driving in SA is very relaxed. Moreover, seeing as it is a sort of a transportational hub, it sees a lot of people and... Let's just say that I would advise against taking a walk in the area.
- The building. Walls are very thin. Whenever there is a person in the hall you will hear all about it. And the building's layout strengthens any noise made in the hallway. Also, whenever neighbors in adjacent units turn on a running water (probably take a shower), you will hear buzzing the apartment.