Dear fellow renters,
PAY ATTENTION! You need to be very careful about renting this place - it has some SERIOUS defects which are not communicated in the description. Here are the pit falls:
- The apartment is very HOT!!! It is a top floor apartment, although only 1st floor, so the sun burns directly on the roof.
- All bedrooms face a busy street with rubbish trucks in the night, cars, motor bikes and partying people shouting, and you NEED to have windows open towards the street to get fresh air and cool just a bit down - the NOISE IS UNBELIEVABLE. YOU ARE LUCKY TO GET 3-5 HOURS SLEEP. It feels like sleeping IN THE STREET. Unbelievable !!!!!! We measured the noisy level, and it is above the WHO recommendation level for sleep. That is so much NOT vacation!!!
- Basic apartment stuff not in order although asked for (2 first things): Water drain in the toilet sink not working, vacuum cleaner not working, kitchen drawers stink of serious mould, refrigerator not able to cool groceries down to +5 degrees. And, we have been accused of breaking a fridge shelf...
- Front door is a trap - and you are not informed about it in the apartment information material given to you. We were standing in front of the door with the apartment key in our hands, and could not open the lock and the door. Later, after the lock smith had opened the door, it turned out that we had left the other set of apartment keys in the lock on the inside of the door - when we left the apartment. And, therefore it was impossible to open the lock. No-one had told us about this pitfall. The most ridiculous thing is that the owner wanted us to pay for the service of the lock smith - UNBELIEVABLE !!!!
In general, the place wants to give impression of a wanna-be fancy-architect place - but in reality it is a pap-maché setting with 'walls' made of old painted juice or milks cartoons and paper. Chairs in the kitchen - designer-look-alikes fancy but are seriously uncomfortable / not maintained.
With the above in mind, the price for this place is completely off target !!
We paid 2.933 Euro for a week which does sets some level of expectation for a place, and it was not met.
The place is totally overpriced.
Right should be right: we loved the neighbourhood which is very cosy with lots of locals enjoying life, and the bars, cafes, food shops and restaurants (incl. a wonderful veggy resto very close) - and the apartment is also very close to the beach.
So, if you are in love with the western part of San Sebastian and you can live with not having any or very little sleep at night, and you don't care about how much money you pay for what you actually get - this is the place for you.
Very best, Thomas & Natalie + 3 children