Guest User
January 31, 2023
In my 10 years of being a nomad, I’ve pretty well seen it all. Great accommodation and crappy management/staff. Crappy accommodation and great management/staff. Usually, it’s somewhere in between. Well, I really lucked out at the Gajeta Apartments! Terrific accommodation and terrific management/staff. Accommodation 1. Location: couldn’t be better. A few minutes walk to just about every tourist attraction in the Old Town. A heartbeat away from cafés, restaurants, super markets, currency exchanges, pharmacies, the launderette, the Riva, etc. (Don’t know about parking because I gave up driving years ago.) 2. The flat itself: a budget-friendly 1-bedroom job that suited me to a T. (a) Cozy and warm - especially welcome during the colder days of December, January, and February. Wonderful to walk into a cozy warm environment after nearly freezing to death chasing the winter sun. (b) Quiet - this is one of the very few places I’ve actually heard the sound of silence! Could be due to the double-paned windows and the wooden shutters. (c) Clean - no fixed housekeeping day; it’s negotiable and for me once a week was perfect. (d) Good WiFi. (e) Bed - probably the most comfortable bed on the planet. (f) No ‘scenic view’ from the flat, but then I didn’t come to Split to spend my time looking out the window. 😁😁😁 Management/Staff ****o - the owner A very soft-spoken, thoughtful, laidback guy; any minor glitches are dealt with immediately. Sanja - receptionist/secretary? (Never did know her official title.) Sanja is the jewel in the crown at the Gajeta Apartments. Has me now wishing all receptionists everywhere else were the same! Yes, most receptionists will confirm bookings and arrange airport pickups, but this little lady seemed to go above and beyond the ‘usual’. Out of many examples, what I appreciated the most: (a) Her prompt and detailed response to my initial email query (April 2021). (b) Her prompt responses to subsequent emails. (c) Meeting me at the apartments upon my arrival (December 2021). It was so nice to be welcomed by a smiling face rather than by a key stuck in a box; a code pad stuck at the entrance to a building; or an automaton that passes for a receptionist. (d) Assisted me in finding a currency exchange and a super market that same afternoon. That was so much appreciated, given that I was dead tired after a 19-hour circuitous itinerary just getting there. (e) Being accessible, if needed. (f) To even seeing me off when I left. Definitely recommend this place!