Smartflats - Meir Antwerp

What an awful place!! Our kids couldnt sleep because of the insanely loud music of the neighbours every night. They give loud concerts almost every night. The olace was not welcoming at all. Unfinished, old fashioned intetiot and nothing SMART about it. Wifi didnt even reach the living room. No service at all...client service never picked up the phone. Elevator broke and wasnt fixed during our entire stay. We had to carry the baby straller up all the stairs with suitcases and all. In the entrance hallway they stalled all the dirty laundry such as on the picture below. Very very noisy. Bed in living room was very uncomfortable. Terrible! How can this be on ***********????

First of all, the entry key pad to the property did not work. Tried pulling the entry door, it opened. It lead to a flight of dark stairs. Climbed two floors and found that there was construction happening. Went back down and called customer service in the middle of night sitting on the high street bench. Customer service insisted there were guests. So tried to climb the dark stairs with luggage and found there was another flight of stairs hidden from view. Took that reached the apartment and went in. The apartment was so hot, could only sleep with windows open. High street is noisy throughout the night except for a couple of hours. All 3 nights was woken up by loud noise of people staying above me with constant noise of moving furniture, going down the stairs, chatting and laughing. Lost sleep for 3 days. Absolute definition of nightmare

Warning! Do Not Book! I booked this apartment, intending to receive codes to open the door to the building and another code for the apartment. At 3:30 PM, we hadn't received them, even though the check-in time was at 4:00 PM. So, I called them, and initially, they said they had no record of my booking at all. But when I provided the apartment number mentioned in the email, suddenly, they found my name and sent the codes via SMS. We headed to the building to rest after our journey. However, we couldn't enter the building as the keypad wasn't functional—it didn't make any sound or light up. We called them again to explain the situation. Their response was that they had to wait for the technicians to respond about when they could come and fix it. I explained that we were standing outside the apartment with our luggage and two small children, while it was pouring rain. We stood there for an hour, making multiple calls, and they kept saying that I had to wait for the technicians to provide an answer before they could do anything. They didn't know when that would be, meaning it could take several hours. It was extremely disappointing that they couldn't immediately open the door or send someone to let us in while waiting for their technician. Consequently, we had to quickly book another room just to have a place to stay with our children.

The apartment was double booked by the accommodation. Meaning when I tried to come in(with my code and booking confirmation) and someone else was already there. After contacting customer service(who were in touch with the accommodation) we DID NOT get ANY compensation, even trough it was not out fault(again, we had a reservation confirmation and paid and even had the code for entering the apartment)

Pros: the property is livable and got a decent remodel around the bedroom and shower. Hot water, temperature control are there. Location is very central and is right on the central street with shops and crowds. Cons: There are a few. - The property is managed remotely, and I did not manage to get any support. The most critical for me was lack of WI-FI. Even thought it was advertised, it was not present. I reported it twice and got email from the reception that the technical staff was notified. In the three nights of stay, never got a follow up or repair. - Dishwasher instructions do not match the model in the unit, and I couldn't get it working. Also, lacking container for the silverware, i.e. effectively not usable. - Walls in the restroom are dirty, like they forgot to clean/paint it during remodel. - The beds are not King size. I'm not sure if European standard is different, but definitely not the American size. - Besides, be advised that you will need to climb a lot of very steep stairs through the back of the stores to get to the unit. There is a luggage elevator next to the unit, but it appears to be permanently disables.

The apartment is spacious and clean, but the wifi and TV didn’t work. I phoned the maintainers immediately and sent four or five emails in the following days but they gave only two short and unhelpful replies to the first few emails and never fixed the problem (no signal was coming into the house at all, I had to discover myself). I don’t care about the TV not working but I need the internet while working there for a week. I had to resort to using my mobile phone data for which I had to pay. I asked for any kind of compensation for that but they didn’t reply to that either.