While we have been fortunate to travel extensively and stay in many types and levels of accommodation, leaving after one night and forfeiting the full cost of five nights (and a day of our trip to arrange alternative accommodation) is a first. While aspects of this booking were excellent (check-in and communication) we cancelled and left for the following reasons:
Safety - Sea Point has pockets of more or less salubrious blocks and this property is in the latter. While minimum security for a free standing home in a South African city is provided, access is through narrow lanes with overlooking flats
Privacy - The property description states "lots of space and light" and "you would never know you were in the centre of town". This was not our experience at all - the property is surrounded by blocks of flats so if you want any privacy you need to keep the curtains and blinds closed and the noise from adjacent properties kept us up until late in the night
Standard - Kitchen and cupboard doors falling off hinges, curtain rails hanging loose, the microwave unuseable with no rotating plate, what looked like eclectic and interesting finishes mostly tired and tatty
Value for money - We found alternative accommodation orders of magnitude better on every score for only a marginally higher cost