First the good, the management company is very responsive and hospitable. The apartment is located in the heart of most happening part of town. The place was spacious and the roof top soaking pool (NOT a swimming pool as advertised as it is too small for anyone older than a toddler to swim in it) were all great features.
Now the bad, a BIG negative is that the alley where the sole entrance to the building is located reeks of human urine smell at ALL times of the day. The smell is so strong and pungent that you will need to cover your nose when you step in the alley. There may be a sewage drain pipe right in front of the door that is covered by only a grill, that may be the cause but whatever the cause the smell was so strong that had we known about it beforehand we wouldn’t have selected this place to stay.
Secondly, the door lock was extremely difficult to open. Every time we arrived at the apartment it would be a struggle to open it. We were concerned of getting locked out in the middle of the night. Thirdly, the thermostat was not accurate. During the day the apartment would be too hot and you couldn’t turn the thermostat lower than a certain limit and even that thermostat temperature reading seemed inaccurate (it said apartment was at 18 degrees but it felt way too hot to be 18 degrees). We complained about it and the maintenance folks said they will need to get permission from sr. Mgmt to reduce temp further but never did.
Overall, I wouldn’t recommend this place just coz of the urine smell that will greet you every time you go in or out of the building. However, I would recommend the mgmt company so any other properties under their care would be a good option for foreign travelers.