This apartment is not a good deal at all -- at least, it was highly overpriced during August, which we assume has something to do with it being during Fringe.
Things you should know about it:
- The location is fabulous -- close to delicious restaurants and a great high street, right on the banks of a little river. Stockbridge is great, and we would absolutely stay there again. There's a book full of recommendations that we found to be really useful.
- The apartment is a ground floor 2-bedroom flat, and when we arrived, there were breakfast foods and unopened soy milk in the fridge. There's a closet full of games for kids, and there's lots of sunlight.
- The entryway is very unsettling -- the building is pretty brutalist in terms of architectural style, and there's an unlocked door leading to a very dark, unpleasant smelling concrete hallway where the apartment entrance is -- it's a very unsettling, surprising introduction to the whole place. I wish we'd been warned.
- The flat itself was brighter -- clean, but much older than the listing suggests. The carpeting is very institutional and grey, the bathroom and kitchen fixtures are old. The shower was half-broken, the shower head had been rigged to work with what looked like the piece of a pasta box? The cold-water tap in the bathroom is wonky, and though I'm pretty sure the bathtub was clean, it looked pretty grimy, so we didn't give our 5yo a bath while we stayed there.
- The furniture is very inexpensive and uncomfortable -- the beds are not queen or king, as indicated in the listing, but full-sized. There were only three water glasses in the kitchen.
- Don't open the windows in the kitchen or living room, or risk smelling cigarette smoke from the neighbors for a full day afterwards.