We agree with most of the nice things the other reviews say about this apartment. Well equipped, two bedrooms, etc. However, we think travelers would like to know about the most obvious negative of this apartment
Directly across the street, on the river, is a small water treatment plant. It always makes a noise, and that's probably the "gentle hum" the landlord mentions in her description. But what she doesn't mention is that often the noise turns into a loud, whoosing sound that caused us to flee indoors and shut the windows.
Back home at our local airport we have to walk out on the tarmac to get to an airplane, and sometimes a plane's jet engines will be idling. It's a fairly loud sound and it's a relief when you can get off the tarmac. And that's what the sound was like from the water treatment plant. Like a jet engine waiting to take off.
To be fair, the jet engine noise varied during the day from the jet sound to that gentle hum. But its presence prevented us from fully enjoying the large deck. We tried having Sunday lunch on the patio but gave up after the noise got to be too much.
It's also unfortunate that the view of the pretty Lot River is obstructed by the same water plant. To see the river and the Valentre bridge, you have to crane your neck to the left.
We also deduct points for the very laborious check-in and check-out process. It was a lesson in old-fashioned, French bureaucracy. It took about 45 minutes to cover every tiny detail about the apartment, including how to put down the toilet seat, how to open windows, how to open the fridge, etc. Most of the instructions involved NO and DON'T. As in, don't put anything hot on the counter, don't move this corkscrew from this drawer, don't slam the toilet seat down, don't put the blinds up too far.
There were extra charges to rent bath and kitchen linens (the VRBO listing does say that lines are extra, but still). We had to pay 25 Euros "rent" on towels that were like drying yourself with tissues, they were so thin. These cheap linens could have been purchased for a few Euros.
Extra points deduction for the long, laborious check-out process where every single thing was counted, every appliance was checked and, of course, there were more forms to be filled out and signed off before we could get our deposit returned.
Bottom line: will we return to the apartment? No.