Our review is very subjective. There were 4 of us when we stayed in this apartment for 10 days. We’ve been traveling for a long time and we have 1.5 suitcases. I’m sure we could have a more pleasant experience if there were 2 of us. Because the apartment is comfortable only for 2. Or maybe it would be comfortable for 4 backpackers for brief stays (1-2 days).
Pros:
* It’s a quite nice area. Easy to go to ferries, airport shuttles. There are a lot of cafes, restaurants, supermarkets.
* There is a very well-equipped kitchen: a lot of tableware, an oven, etc.
* During the stay, you can easily communicate with Banu. She helped with water, etc.
Cons:
* There was a quite strong smell in the restroom.
* There is a lot of stuff of the host (really a lot). Only in the bedroom you can store your clothes and personal items. If you rent for 4 people, there aren’t places to store clothes and personal items for the other 2, who live in the guestroom. So we needed to move some items of the host to free a bit of space for us. And we hurried to pack our stuff before checkout, and couldn’t return moved items. This caused a bit of a conflict in chatting after check out. In the kitchen, you may use only part of a refrigerator (small part). There are 3 rooms but you can comfortably use only 2 of them.
* We’ve read reviews about this apartment and almost everyone wrote that it’s clear, but we have not noticed that. Because of a lot of personal stuff of the host in the apartment, it’s quite dusty, so we had to clean it after check-in.
* We always do easy cleaning before leaving, so we’ve never got any complaints about it for all our trips (8 years, almost 30 countries). We’ve vacuumed here, wipe off the dust, etc. But after check out, we’ve got complaints we didn’t make good cleaning.