The apartment is in a very hip location surrounded by late night bars, clubs and restaurants. You have to be in the mood to be in the center of the scene. It’s not appropriate for families. In fact you have to carry everything up a couple tall flights of stairs including a narrow spiral staircase. It’s what we call a “walkup”, so pack lightly!
The cool apartment has soaring ceilings and a good open lofty feeling. There is a nice size patio with chairs (but no cushions so you probably won’t be out there too long). It’s still a nice patio and we enjoyed having it
The apartment is noisy especially in the evenings. It’s directly above loud restaurants that occupy the ground floor. The train also runs near it and sends some noise and vibration into the rooms.
There are some in-unit flaws that hopefully the owner will fix soon that could make this place a LOT better:
Leaks - when it rained, water came into the master bedroom and living room. There is evidence of black mold too :( one of our bags got wet and slightly damaged.
It’s very Dirty - not well cleaned with lots of dead bugs (more on that later) and dirt in many corners and walls - please don’t look under the bed or couch you’ll wish you hadn’t… The shame is that this owner charges high fees for everything but even when shown many photos of how dirty it was they wouldn’t reclean nor refund the high cleaning fees. They just kept thanking us for telling them but took no action.
The Wi-Fi is slow, fastest we got was 30mps
The appliances are old, worn out and low end.
The fridge Water filter expired years ago (for ice and drinking) it was solid red and the water had a bad taste.
The Blinds are undersized for the master bedroom so lots of direct morning light shined onto our faces at 6am (arghhhh). Definitely needs better blinds!
The apartment feels like a crash pad for a group of friends. There are none of the usual cute little things you find at well cared for Airbnbs (no lotions, condiments, toiletries etc). It felt like a place people used often for bachelor parties if you know what I mean.
There was also an active bug infestation which you can see in some of our photos. We’d find ants crawling on us often and crawlies in the downstairs shower.
It looks great in photos but in real life it is past its prime and needs some genuine TLC
I wouldn’t stay here again. I hope this review helps you and I wish someone else had written all of this before I stayed here!
Ps i’m really scared that I might’ve gotten bedbugs there