Urban Banana Apartments

The location was excellent and the apartment feels like it was once lived in, which is much better than being furnished by an agency eg. there were coat hooks and enough shelf space. The living areas were well-equipped and comfortable.

The spiral staircase was a bit of a challenge for us, especially in the night, and the handrail at the bottom needs fixing. The mattress dips in the middle considerably and needs replacing.

I could not stay in the property and left after checking it over. Issues to cover - Firstly, locating the key box was an issue. Hidden behind dirty and overflowing wheelie bins around the corner. Not easy to find nor was the area clean by any means. The apartment was freezing and had a bad foul smell throughout. The apartment looks nothing like the pictures. The living room is full of other furniture and a fold-out bed, and the bathroom is old and very tired. Upstairs bedroom - wardrobe door missing: badly bent blinds and stained curtains. The upstairs door opened to a public corridor, that was not in the pictures nor mentioned in the description. This door had an internal fire lock, however the outside could be opened with a key. No sight or knowledge of this key or who has access. So the door could be opened from the outside at any time when guests are sleeping. This is just unacceptable. As a pregnant woman travelling alone, this was my sign to get out of there. All of this was immediately communicated to the owner on WhatsApp within the hour of leaving, and I have still had no response even though we spoke earlier that day on the same number, and the messages are received and read. Avoid at all costs.

Location was amazing! Right in town so really easy to find. The Key was fine to collect albeit i think i was a little unluck on bin day so that was a little grim - but got into the property with no issues. The host was lovely and responded straight away.

It was pretty run down if i'm being totally honest. For how much it cost it definitely needs a bit of a makeover. The bedroom was also freezing as there was no heater upstairs and then I felt too nervous to leave one of the heaters on downstairs as they were super old and one of them falling off of the wall. The bedding was clean but everything else felt like it needed a freshen up and scrub.