We were fooled by the photos and the good reviews.
Maybe this apartment is fine for a certain category of traveller, but it certainly was unfit for a family with 2 children. Also, you’re paying a premium price for the location, which is indeed central, but certainly NOT for comfort
First of all, deception: the photos on airbnb are taken with a wide angle lens. They misrepresent the apartment. Beware, the apartment is much smaller than it looks.
Second, disruption: it is a few steps away from not one, but two pubs. Which means every night you and your children will be woken up without fail between 2 and 3 am, when the pubs close their doors and hordes of screaming, yelling drunks pour out into the street. Also, every night after 10pm we could hear the neighours’ loud conversations very clearly.
Third, the shower is an absolute joke. We have stayed in youth hostels offering better. The owners write in the folder: ‘the showerhead has several settings. Make sure it’s on the one where water just comes out of the central bit of the showerhead. Unfortunately if you try and switch it to full blast, the water temperature becomes really unmanageable and switches from really hot to really cold.’ The trouble is, at that setting what comes out is barely a trickle. We find that completely unacceptable for this price.