One star is being too kind

I booked a short stay at The Quarter Apartments for my daughter and her two guests from the UK. If you are considering making a booking here take my advice – avoid this place like the plague. Picture, if you will, a woman with anxiety issues and two international guests who had never been to Cape Town before being told, at 11.30pm, that they were being evicted because the international guest committed the heinous crime of lighting a cigarette on the balcony. I hasten to add that at no time were we advised either by The Quarter Apartments team or Booking.Com of the ridiculous No Smoking policy – wherever else we have stayed in South Africa smoking on the balcony has been perfectly acceptable. But not at this authoritarian building where the hapless trio were ordered to leave the building until, at the intervention of my son-in-law, they were allowed to stay in the apartment for one night, with the provision that they did not leave their room or turn on any lights - prisoners in the apartment we had paid for in full. What impression does this give international visitors of our country? A more in-depth look at the apartment block’s rules and regulations which were NOT highlighted on the Booking.com website reveals that some people in the block can, in fact, smoke on the balcony while overseas visitors are treated like ****. Unacceptable **************. SMOKING POLICY • Smoking of marujana is strictly forbidden in all the apartments OR on the balconies by residents. They will be asked to leave the building. • Smoking of cigarettes is not allowed for short term rentals.