I’ll start by saying I’d stay here again. The location IS amazing and the place is spacious.
However, the apt is showing the age of the 2008 remodel. The rooms in need of an upgrade are the kitchen (cupboard edges are detaching, rusty racks in the dishwasher, the open button for the microwave is broken and it is old enough not to have a rotating carousel) and the bathroom (water damage on the floor and signs of mold on the ceiling). I would *not* describe it as a “luxury” apartment.
We were bothered by needing to wait 20 min to be let in (could be our American sense of timeliness?). Looking back at my Whats App messages later (as requested I let them know the train was on time, that we were in the taxi), it seems some of them might not have gone through. Also, the additional tourist tax was buried in house rules and did not feel transparent. You’ll need to be comfortable w/them taking a pic of your passport.
All that said, the positives still outweighed the negatives.