This is a great apartment set in the basement of a townhouse with one significant downside for us that I explain later in the review,
The area is great, well connected with the no 1 bus service to downtown nearby and lots of good restaurants just a short walk away. The hosts provide useful advice in the local guide published on the listing. We tried Eats, Le Soleil, Mandalay and the Richfield coffee house based on their recommendation and all we’re good.
The unit is well appointed, comfortable bed, lots of amenities (including access to the hosts garden area), and some lovely touches - complimentary coffee, bath products etc. The hosts are lovely too - great communication, helpful and attentive but also leave you alone to use the apartment.
The negative for us was that I hadn’t appreciated that the unit would be a basement (maybe missed that on booking) and there is no effective soundproofing between the unit and the house, so we found it incredibly noisy living beneath a 4 person family. That’s not a criticism of the hosts - it’s just a fact about the unit. You can hear everything from the house above, every footstep, conversations, food being prepared, taps being run etc. it was very disturbing to us (I’m a light sleeper so was woken up most days between 5.30am and 6am by the noise above) and later in the day and evening the noise was intrusive too. This maybe just how it is when booking this style of accommodation but having had that experience I wouldn’t book this apartment or any other basement apartment again .
Everything else about the unit was really first class.