JOIVY Apartments - Trieste Goldoni

excellent position, clean, o.k. beds, supermarkets close to it.

insufficient choice of pottery to cook, no salt, some micro portion of olive oil, salt and pepper for spicing one small portion of food instead of placing a bottle of oil and a salt box in the kitchen. No electric coffee maker there, neither coffee even for 1 portion. No sockets on kitchen desk, we had our small portable electric coffee maker with us on our trip - nowhere to connect there on kitchen desk. So if you intend to cook inhouse, care about everything in advance (supermarkets by hand) and take note there are no sockets to connect any electric mixer, coffee maker, blender or whatsoever device around.

All was good.

We had to do the check-in online

The location was good and when we needed help a gentleman came right away to assist us

The bathroom needed to be cleaned, also the floors were not very clean

The location was perfect for exploring Trieste, and was the middle point between the two venues of the film festival I was attending there

The bed was uncomfortable, the ceiling lights were too stark and clinical so had to use only bedside lamps and cooker hood light when it was too dark for natural light. The hob in kitchen area didn't work so most of my dining table was taken up with a temporary one, so I didn't have an extractor fan for the cooking smells, which in a studio is really important. Luckily I like having windows open. The kitchen was also missing a sharp knife for cutting vegetables etc, also no small saucepan only large ones. I requested a knife online and in person at their reception on Mazzini, the man there was more interested in playing games on his mobile, but still one was not provided. I stayed in these apartments the previous 2 years and had no issues, but since the change in ownership it appears to have taken a nosedive. I was upgraded to a luxury studio which I thought was a nice thing until I went to bed, the head of the bed is against a wall that seems to have air-conditioning units on the other side that hum and thrum all night long, add that to the uncomfortable bed and I didn't get a good night's sleep the whole week I was there.