Coming home without gambling your money
You're coming back for three weeks, for a summer, or for good. You have to rent from abroad an apartment you won't see until you land. Here's how we make that decision less of a gamble.
Renting from a distance means accepting you can check nothing
Photos taken four years ago. A deposit demanded up front. An already overstretched cousin asked to go and look. Everyone knows the story, and plenty have lived it.
What usually happens
- Photos that no longer match the apartment.
- A price that climbs between the first conversation and your arrival.
- A deposit paid with no receipt and nothing in writing.
- Nobody on the line once the money has landed.
- A night-time arrival, and nobody there to open the door.
What we commit to
- Photos of the apartment as it is, retaken when it changes.
- The total for the stay worked out on the site, cleaning included, before you enquire.
- Written confirmation with the exact amount and the deposit.
- A number that answers during the stay, not only before it.
- A welcome at the airport at the time your flight actually lands, even at 3 a.m.
What happens, step by step
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01
You choose
The photos are of the apartment itself, taken as it is. The total for the stay is shown before you enquire: nights, cleaning and any long-stay discount included.
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We confirm
A person checks actual availability and replies, usually within two hours. You receive a written summary with the exact amount and the deposit to pay.
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You arrive
We can meet you at the airport, at the time your flight actually lands. The keys are handed over on site, along with a tour of the place and the numbers you'll need.
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You live in Dakar
A number that answers throughout your stay, cleaning taken care of, and the house address book: delivery people, restaurants, a taxi you can trust, a hairdresser, a mechanic.
The airport is far away. We plan for it.
Blaise Diagne airport is some fifty kilometres from Dakar: allow about an hour's drive, more at busy times. After ten hours of travel with children and four suitcases, that journey is the worst possible moment to haggle over a taxi.
Give us your flight number: someone waits at the exit with your name, drives you to the apartment and shows you round. Night flights included — which is most flights from Europe.
See all our servicesThe address book nobody hands you
Where to get a phone fixed, which taxi to call at night, which fishmonger, which restaurant actually delivers, which hairdresser comes to you: the things that separate visiting Dakar from living in it.
Our guests reach it from their private area, with a code given on arrival. These are addresses tested by our teams and by those who came before you — not a list copied off the internet.
The guest area
Tell us your dates
Even if the ticket isn't booked yet. We'll tell you what will be free, and at what price.