While the apartment itself was nice and exactly as pictured, the area is very sketchy especially for the price of the unit. We had to ask multiple homeless people and a half dressed woman who appeared to be on drugs (given the needle next to her) to move so that we could open the door. If you are delayed, as most are these days with air travel, you can only get in the building if Alexander is available to buzz you in. Our friends were delayed and did not arrive until 2:30 am, Alexander was not available to buzz them in and did not respond to our question about how we could buzz them in from the apartment. We had to stay awake until they arrived, go all the way down to unlock the door, and ask the homeless to move AGAIN so that we could open the door. The steps are very long and steep. Carrying heavy baggage is challenging. We figured out how to leave via the ground floor, but even though it was 9am, another building resident warned us to not go out that way. She said the alley was very dangerous.
The time of day made no difference, there were constantly people camped out in front of the door. Alexander refused to refund any money. It’s not like I booked a cheap place and got what I paid for, this was over $900 for two nights and it ruined my weekend leading up to our cruise.