Avanti Hotel Apartments in Stockholm

Noodle bits in the leftover water in the kettle, toilet seat with stains on both ring and lid, smears on walls, dead insects stuck on the curtains, hairs on the floor, bad and smelly drain in the shower, the toilet door is hard to close & squeaky and the duvets was yellow from age and use.

The Avanti Hotel is in a nice, quiet residential neighborhood in Stockholm. It's just a 8-10 minute walk to two different metro lines, which is convenient. However, I'm providing just 2 stars for a couple of key reasons:

1. Skylight cover/shade: it's daylight in Stockholm around 20 hours per day in June. There is a skylight on top floor rooms, and our cover/shade was shredded and let in light on all sides, so it was being like on the surface of the sun starting at 2:45am. When I asked management to address, it wasn't. That's probably a 10 Euro fix. It was impossible to sleep past the first daylight.
2. Fire alarm and management response: a 6:15am false fire alarm on one of our days there. Not a huge problem, given point #1 (so we were awake for it). However, when I asked the manager about it, he only said it was not their fault, and that the fire alarm had to be activated 24/7. He indicated we were fortunate that the alarm didn't mean it was a real fire. That was extremely comforting.
3. Cat urine smell: the bathroom had a strong and unmistakable smell of cat urine. A cat from a previous guest had obviously had its way with the bathroom. We were told it was a sewage/pipe issue.

Now, the non-managerial employees were very kind, and they are clearly understaffed (the front desk is staffed only from 4-8pm; there appear to only be 2 employees handling breakfast for 91 rooms, etc.). So they are doing the best they can under strict and stingy management.