We stayed a month in Fiona's place, a complete disappointment. The main reason? Existing plumbing issues in the appartment. Due to the plumbing works carried out during our stay (details below), we experienced 9 days of complete disruption, noise, mess and no water intermittently. Unfortunately, Fiona was aware of a plumbing issue beforehand. Furthermore, Fiona did not even come to the apartment at all during the entirety of this disruption, we didn't see her at all after the check-in.
It started when Fiona asked us if we had been causing water to pool in the second bathroom. At this time, it was just the two of us in the apartment and so we had no need to use the second bathroom, we hadn’t even stepped a foot inside it. A plumber was sent round to have a look, he pulled the bathroom apart and found a veritable steam running behind the wall. The solution? An industrial fan was to be left on all weekend (this was Friday), not to be turned off at any point and they’d be back on Monday. It goes without saying that the bathroom was out of use during this period, and it just so happened that my parents in law had arrived to stay for 2 weeks on that exact day. We needed that second bathroom. Monday came, after a weekend dominated by an extremely noisy fan and only 1 bathroom to share, the plumbers came back- the leak had got worse and was flooding through the bathroom. At this point, the plumbers informed us that this was not the first time they had frequented the property and the times before were for this exact same issue. The leak was not new and we most certainly were not the cause. To cut a long story short, this disruption carried on for a further 6 days. Some days we had no water at all, some days we had no use of a bathroom and all days we were severely affected by noise, mess and a constant stream of people walking in and out of the apartment- our front door was constantly kept wide open.
For a place considered as 'luxury', this is really poor value, especially due to the complete lack of guest care shown to us by Fiona. There is also a leak coming from the ceiling in the master bedroom, while the bedrooms themselves are very small.
Finally, we were told that Fiona had blocked off the week after we left to fix the issues. However this clearly changed as we were later told to check out early as she had a 'back to back'. I sincerely hope that future guests wishing to stay in Fiona's place do not have the same experience as us. A really disappointing stay.