We are a family of 5 that stayed in this unit for 4 nights in the beginning of July. First, the checking process was simple. Karl met us on-time and answered all our questions. He was very friendly. The unit was very clean and had everything we needed. The location in also fantastic. Very close to a metro stop & also easy walking distance to the city center, restaurants, etc.
The big issue we had with the unit had to do with the no AC & street noise. As I recall, the listing had "no AC" on it, so we were aware going into the stay. We figured we'd be able to leave the windows open, get a breeze going, temps are usually in the mid to low 60s, no problem. What we were not prepared for was the amount of street noise. We're a family that lives in a condo in an urban setting. All of us are used to the sounds of a city. The amount of noise coming from the street just outside the apartment was enormous. Additionally, the back bedrooms that face an inner courtyard had a huge amount of noise. Lots of banging and crashing sounds.
The problem was that if you left the windows open to cool off the apartment, you'd have to deal with extremely loud street noise. If you closed the windows, it helped with the noise significantly, but the apartment got extremely hot. Up to 80 degrees two of four nights (It was very hot in Europe at the time). On the cooler nights, it only got a few degrees cooler than 80 in the apartment.
We kept going back and forth between opening the windows to cool off the apartment and then closing them again to not deal with the street noise. Basically we ended up with 4 nights of little to no sleep for a family of 5. Very challenging.
I'm sure this would be a great place to stay in the winter time when you can keep the windows closed throughout the night, but I just can't recommend it for a summer visit.
A few little things that i think would help out tremendously are:
Replacing the towels: They were very old and coarse.
Replace the TV: We didn't watch hardly any TV, but it's an old school tube TV. Just gives a bad impression of the apartment.
Shower Head Knob: The only bathroom has a tub with a hand-held showerhead. There is a knob to put the showerhead on so you can take an actual shower, but it's in the middle of the tub. Makes it difficult to take a shower. Putting an additional knob at the head of the shower would be very helpful.