T2 Proche Gare - Spacieux , Central et Lumineux

😊: First of all, we (married couple) enjoyed our long-ish (20 days) stay here - it is a light, spacious, comfortable apartment, in which we felt relaxed and at home. The bedroom, with double bed, has a wardrobe and shelves, and is big enough for a desk and chair also. The living room has a comfortable sofa (bed, which we didn't use), as well as a small table and 4 high stools for eating. It is very close (less than 5 minutes walk) to the old city of Montpellier, and as the name implies to the very attractive Promenade du Peyrou. It's also close to the Plan Cabanes no 3 tram stop, so has a good connection for public transport. For us the location was ideal, as we were in a language school close by. It is on a narrow one way street (Rue de la Merci), that is very busy during the day, but is quiet at night. The traffic never disturbed us sleeping. The are lots (really lots) of shops, restaurants, backeries and bars within 10 minutes. More than we could try in almost 3 weeks.. 😢: However, there were quite a few things that could have made it much better. What can't be changed is, that is on the fourth floor of an apartment block, that doesn't have a lift. This means at the start carrying all luggage up, and at the finish all down, eight flights of stairs. And every time to go out too, down and back up again. The fourth floor did have one positive side - there is a small balcony with a table and two chairs that we used almost every day. And with a pleasant if unspectacular view. It's on the eastern side, so you get morning sun (delightful), also in the living room, but pleasantly cool in the late afternoon and evening of a hot day. There are shutters to keep the apartment cool on a warm day. What should definitely be changed is the provision of WiFi. There was none during our visit of almost three weeks. And our enquiry to the owners, via WhatsApp on the first day, simply went unanswered - not the best style. We used almost 30Gb of mobile data during our stay. According to Booking.com there is now WiFi available, but that was definitely not the case until last Fri 4.10.24 The apartment is reasonably well equipped: a coffee maschine (with Philips Senseo coffee "pads"), a microwave (not used), and oven and hot plates, washing up maschine, as well as an almost new washing maschine in the bathroom, and an air conditioner in the bedroom. And a big fridge. But it is badly maintained. We had some difficulty operating the oven and hot plates, and an instruction booklet would have been helpful. We tried to find them online ourselves. We gave up on the hot plates. We used the washing maschine, though it would have been helpful to know more about the choices we made, and how long the cycles would go. There is no tumbler, but there is a foldable rack to dry clothes, and several "laveries" with tumblers close by..