Found the Postbox with no trouble – it is on a back street which is beside the Mailbox.

Reception was very friendly, I arrived at about 13:40 so was 20 minutes early too early to check-in, however someone went and checked the apartment while I attended to the masses of paperwork there is to complete. I had booked a one-bedroomed apartment but was told that they had ran out so had been upgraded FOC to a 2 bedroomed unit (the gentleman who took me to the apartment even said “you have a second bedroom, so if you like you could call some friends and have them come and stay”).

I had parked on the street, but bought a 3 day pass to the on-site car park at £12 + VAT. I was taken to get my car, then shown how to operate the secure parking, and then taken up to the apartment – the gentleman even offered to carry my luggage.

My apartment was on the 2nd floor, on a corner with floor to ceiling windows which swept around the corner.

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