Pros:
Great location, comfortable bed, pretty garden setting.
Cons:
1) Many rugs in the unit had pet urine on them. I reached out to the manager on Sunday and the housekeeper did not arrive until Tuesday. Housekeeper told me that the owner wanted to spray a cleaner on the stained and soiled wool rugs but not remove them. I insisted the rugs be removed. The smell urine lingered after they were removed.
2) The drier is not vented to the outside and literally takes hours to dry a load of laundry. Housekeeper explained it was a special heat pump drier that did not require venting and had long cycle times by design. The moisture from the drier completely invaded the basement apartment making it continually damp. There was no mention of this unusual design in the online listing, in the instruction book in the house, or posted at the drier.
3) My husband leaned on the work/dining table and the lid completely flipped off its base! We requested the table be repaired or replaced and were told the owner was not available to fix it, so they would only remove it from the unit with no repair or replacement.
4) The owners live above this basement apartment. Their dogs barked and howled all night one night of our stay, making it impossible to sleep.
5) A coverless duvet had many obvious blood stains on it. The housekeeper replaced it with another clean, but coverless, duvet.
6) The area under the bed was filthy. This might have contributed to the lingering smell of urine in that room.