After being stood up by not one, but two pre-booked taxis at the Chopin airport, I snagged an Uber and got to my rented apartment around 10:30 pm. The one downside of booking something through booking.com or airbnb is things can get lost in translation as far as entry to the building and getting a key, especially when your original pickup time has changed drastically. After many attempts to get in and wondering where I can maybe find a bench to sleep on, a resident came up to enter. Of course, I don’t speak Polish and she was of an age where if she took English in school, it was last century but she looked me up and down a few times and checked my bags for weapons, and decided to let me in. I did have the right key box code and was able to get right into the cutest little apartment I’ve ever stayed in.
Most of the apartment looked like one of the demo rooms in an Ikea store but I had to take a picture of the Hobbit kitchen, it was 75% the size of a small apartment kitchen in the U.S.
Is this the place you will be for a month?
I booked Warsaw while I was still working because there was a really cool volunteer job posted to coach people in Warsaw on business English, specifically vocabulary for startups and IT things. THe guy I was speaking to ghosted me the last week of March so it never materialized. I am absolutely going to come back to Warsaw and I’d even buy/rent this apt if it was open. It was absolutely perfect.