We were pleased to have gotten an apartment rental a block away from the most active area of Las Olas Boulevard, as we have been to Fort Lauderdale before and we liked the area a lot. The apartment location was excellent, and the apartment with two bedrooms, one bath, a spacious and well-equipped kitchen, a dining room and a living was ample for the two of us. It had good air conditioning and ceiling fans, three television sets, and good illumination in the kitchen. Also, the apartment had outside reserved parking spots. There was a good supply of towels and a small amount of hotel toiletries supplies such as small shampoo bottles and soap bars. The kitchen was provided with a small amount of greatly diluted dishwashing liquid, trash bags, and paper towels. The filter coffee machine was not cleaned and contained leftover filter and coffee. There were small red ants parading by the kitchen window (that lacked a shade or curtain; therefore, no privacy.) There was no dish drying rack provided (you had to wash and dry immediately.) There were no instruction Tom operate the oven, and it was very difficult to operate it.
We were not given, (we guess that Zoraya, the checking person, forgot) the code for lock of the main entrance door; as this door, with a large glass panel, lacked a curtain or shade, we chose not to use It, and we improvised by covering the glass panel with a bed sheet to afford us privacy; otherwise, we would be exposed to whoever the other two apartments of the house would walk by.
Of the three television sets, we could only use one as only one remote device of the existing ones worked to change channels, the others would only function to turn on or off, but no control over switching channels of controlling the sound; of course, no instruction were provided to correct the malfunctions of the tv remotes or the TV sets.
The bedrooms had very poor lighting provided by to two small desk lamps on small tables on the sides of the bed. There was a lack of enough electrical outlets, especially on the sides of the bed.
The bed was comfortable, but it had no sommier; however, the fitted bedsheet provided was grossly oversized and had so much extra material that easily became a gigantic wrinkle with minimal use (we took photos.) With some much extra material of the fitted bedsheets (probably for a king size bed with sommier, except that the bed had no sommier, just the mattress) it was difficult to neatly make up the bed (as we do it every morning.)
The bathroom had old fixtures (after all the apartment is one of three segmented of an old house) and was located in between the two bedrooms with entrance doors to the bathroom from each bedroom (we imagine that there would be some competition, especially during the night, to get to the bathroom) if more than two persons would use the apartment. There was also a parade of small red ants by the washing basin.
Outside, there was an overgrown garden, all around the house, but not well kept; and around the house of three apartment, there was old and decaying wood fence.
We had a problem with a delivery of an Internet purchase, as it was apparently delivered as expected on a Monday (tracking of the post office showed it as delivered,) but we did not see the item nor received it. We made a claim and got credited with the missing item; however on the last day of our stay, Friday of the same week; we received a note from Zoraya, the checking person, that said that she had found it, and had left the item in the kitchen for us (this on the very last day, by the time of our departure!.)
In general, we were disappointed by the problems encountered that should not have existed in first place; such as the lack of privacy (missing curtains of kitchen window and main entrance door, inadequate bedroom lighting, inoperative TV remotes, the bedroom bedsheets, no instructions to operate the oven, and the old bathroom fixtures with no shelves to place toiletries.
We chose not to call the owner or the checking person, because, we did not want to spend our time waiting for someone to come to correct malfunctions or provide missing items; neither we wanted anyone to visit during our absence. For us, this rental was more than an issue of value; it was that we did not enjoy the apartment.