The apartment is beautiful, newly refurbished in a very tasteful style, and the location is superb - just over the bridge from the old city and right by the new city's main square and shopping streets. However, I have given it 4 starts not 5 because quite a number of pretty basic things I would expect in a self-catering apartment were lacking (and I have stayed in a great many s-c places over the years). For example, there were no bin liners, tea towel, washing-up liquid, dishwasher or washing-machine detergent. It is not reasonable to expect each set of guests to go and buy whole packs of all this stuff when they are only going to be there a few days - this has been mentioned by at least one other reviewer of the hosts' properties but evidently to no effect. There were just 6 coat hangers between 3 of us (and the apartment can theoretically accommodate 6), but in some ways that wasn't much of an issue because there were so few places to hang stuff. One bedroom contained just the two single beds (one pulls out from under the other) and nothing else - no cupboard, table, drawers - nothing! There is an iron but no ironing board and the apartment has two rings for cooking, but the only 2 saucepans are so massive you can't fit them both on the rings at the same time. There were only 2 deck chairs for the patio, and no hooks or towel rails in the bathroom which made things difficult with 3 people's towels. This was a pity because it really is a lovely place and the cost of providing these things would be minimal and so add very little to rental price, but a great deal to the 'usability' of the apartment.