Le Petit Provençal

😊: The flat is well placed for walking to and from the modern shopping centre and not too far from the railway station. It is very fairly priced and has all one needs for an overnight stay (and always grateful for a place that permits a brief stay while travelling on). Great shower - good water pressure and plenty of hot water. Thankyou. 😢: It was extraordinarily hot and therefore we needed to keep windows and curtains closed - it was therefore hard to make it feel comfortable with regards lighting, the sofa had a fur-fabric cover which wasn’t ideal, and the kitchen light didn’t work so we had to operate in there using borrowed light from the bedroom. The building - not the flat itself - looks, feels, and sounds a little run-down (we were harassed when heading back to the flat, and then followed through the local streets - he seemed to guess where we were heading and hung around the building entrance for a while so had to do a detour to lose him) - there was a lot of noticeable activity on the stairs during the evening and since the outer door to the building is kept unlocked we did feel a little hypervigilant. Accessing the keys went fine, though I personally couldn’t manage it (my eyesight is poor in the dark and the keysafe is at the back of a low-placed (open) numbered lockbox - hard to reach and, for me, impossible to read the numbers) but my husband did. It does rather advertise to the world which is the ‘tourist’ flat so that combined with being followed added a little more to my feelings of vulnerability. It was fine - and I don’t have high expectations for a budget place to stay and to be fair this was a very convenient and inexpensive stay; and we’d not let this stop us from booking again, though I might think twice about staying there alone because of the difficulty with the keys and a feeling of vulnerability..

😊: It was well equipped and clean. I didn't meet the owner. Access was by a key safe.. 😢: It was boiling hot. Apparently the city doesn’t allow the owner to fit an air conditioner. However there were two fans that made the temperature a little easier..

😊: It was very well priced and certainly value for money.. 😢: The building was very old and tired and pillows could be upgraded but it was clean and had everything we needed for our two night stay..