I love aparthotels. I’ve stayed in them since 2015 and actively seek them out whenever I travel, so I was genuinely shocked by Smartr.
Staff were apathetic, unapologetic and wilfully unhelpful. We checked in 38 minutes late due to a payment issue nobody bothered to tell us about, only to arrive at a filthy apartment. Yet on departure day, someone knocked at 10:40am to remind us to leave. Suddenly, punctuality mattered. Hilarious.
The flat stank of sewage, particularly the bathroom, with the smell spreading throughout. It was dusty, stained and clearly not properly cleaned.
The duplex bathroom was especially bad: dangerously broken shower door, missing toilet flush button, broken shower holder and ants. We even spotted a lizard. At least he had the good sense to leave.
There were no clean dishes, barely any toilet paper and paper-thin walls beside a party house. Smartr did nothing about the noise, leaving us to confront neighbours ourselves when our foreign phones couldn’t access the local complaint number.
I complained repeatedly via Expedia, email and WhatsApp. Silence. Only after Expedia intervened did Smartr respond, offering cleaning two days into our stay and a makeshift shower-door repair the day before departure.
This property needs better management, staff, cleaning, maintenance, ventilation, furniture, communication & basic quality control. The entire stay was uncomfortable from start to finish. Apparently customer service only begins once Expedia gets involved