Apartment was fine. Two bedrooms, one with a large bed, one with twin bunks. Sofa pulls out into a bed. Didn’t really use kitchen.
Check in could have gone better. I texted them early that morning that we would be arriving by train at 10:15 and we would walk to apartment (10min max). We found apartment and then I saw a text from 10:10 that someone would be there at 11:00. OK…..so we waited in the alley/street. 11:20 someone finally showed up, unapologetic and not even very friendly. She didn’t really know how the heater worked for sure and the Wi-Fi password was “somewhere”.
We noticed significant locks on the front door (that should have been a clue) and later in the day we went back to the apartment and my son was saying there was a riot outside. We didn’t pay much attention but sure enough, a few minutes later, a full on police chase with about a dozen people went down the alley. Lucky it didn’t happen when we were standing there for almost an hour.
After dinner, walking back, there was suspicious people and open drug use going on in the alley. We triple checked the doors that night. At midnight, a fight in the alley and then cheering when there was a winner. Yelling in the night, bras in the street the next morning. My husband was up in the middle of the night reading about how this neighborhood was not the best.I wish we had known. We were glad we only stayed one night.
The apartment itself was fine, just the check in and the area around was not good.
