We are very self sufficient travelers and did not expect much from this last minute trip. All we need was a clean place with basic functions. However, the place was able to disappoint even to that low low bar for $2,400 a week.
We’ll start with the positives: good location for where we needed to be for the events we attended. Clean rooms and comfortable beds.
Areas that need improvement:
Furniture is very worn out to the point of not comfortable or safe. All chairs around dinner table are shaky and loose. You always worry about falling when you sit on it. Hard to enjoy a good meal in such mood. And we stayed six nights. Sofa is very uncomfortable. It is a old leather sofa with leather on both arms worn out and covered by some fabric woven covers. If you sit on either part of near each arm, you’ll feel like you are sliding to the middle. Only the very middle spot is comfortable to sit. Imagine you have two people trying to fit in on the sofa. No way you can find a comfortable seat after a day of events in the living room. Would not think chairs and sofa are super expensive to buy but that’s what you got in this place.
Smoke detector is a nightmare for us. We just tried normal baking and had the exhausted fan at max. The alarm went off like crazy. We had to open all doors and windows to stop it. Very hard to cook a normal meal. We spent a week here and would like to cook once in a while but found it tear-some for such basic needs.
WiFi: more a communication nightmare than anything else. The owner/ property manager definitely has the WRONG login in information on the guest manual, which they put on the table in the middle of the room and expect guests to follow it. We found WiFi was horribly slow and messaged owner and sent him pictures of modem, speed test and network name as he requested via message. No solution until our last day there and told us that’s not the right network we should use. The excuses were abundant: 1) there must be a page missing from the manual; 2) we tried but could not reach you earlier;... Truth was there was no missing page and they have plenty of ways to reach me in a timely manner if so desired and attempted: cell, message, email. They finally apologized for miscommunication but it was too late.
Noisy neighbors: this apartment is on the first floor. The people on the 2nd floor were very noisy. Apparently they have several some children who constantly running around and moving stuff. And the walls are thin! We have been out most of the day but for the time we had in the room, we could not enjoy a quite meal, or a good conversation without being startled / interrupted by upstairs noises. They were loud.
Do we recommend this place to anyone? Probably not. Do we want to come back to this place? Most certainly not.