Sorry to give 3 stars after all the faultless reviews so far. But I was disappointed with the apartment, perhaps even because no one had expressed anything negative before.
When I re-read the apartment description and look at all 40 photos, the clues are there, but I didn’t pick them up when booking.
I wanted a 2 bedroom apartment but found the second ‘bedroom’ was really a dining room alcove off the living room with fold away bunk beds. It is shown in the photos as such but to me it is not a bedroom without door as stated in the description. Practically, this means no dining table if the bunk beds are down and no separation or privacy from the living area for the two sleeping on the bunk beds.
The bunk beds themselves are lightweight foldaway beds. My 17 year son chose to sleep on the floor in the kitchen as he found it too dangerous to get up and down. The lower bunk was fine.
Access to the bathroom is off the main bedroom as noted in the description. This is because it’s an ensuite. Again, practically this means the two using the bunk beds needs to walk through the main bedroom to use the bathroom.
The bathroom isn’t overly generous in size, but otherwise fine, apart from the shower which drains very slowly, This means standing in a pool of drain backwash while showering.
The apartment ‘balcony’ doors from main bedroom and living area open onto the street with seemingly limited sound proofing and being on the first floor we found this noisy at nighttime, especially at the weekend,
There is a good kitchen with everything there, apart from a kettle, which seemed strange to us.
Detergent for dishwasher and washing machine supplied, which was great, along with kitchen basics such as salt, pepper, oil, kitchen paper, foil etc which was also very helpful.
Apartment was warm and clean.
Location is good and close to train station, Metro, supermarkets and restaurants.
Julio looked after us well with good communication.
In summary, this is a nice and trendy city apartment, in a good location and with a good host that I can see would appeal to many. But unfortunately it wasn’t what I was hoping for.