Once all the fees are added in, it costs us $850 a night to stay at Steve's place, . For this reason, I think it's important to write a clear, honest review.
Pros:
1. The views from the windows were amazing.
2. For the most part, the place was very clean.
3. The location is very convenient, and pretty safe. The area around the condo felt safe.
4. On our last day, we wanted to leave our car in it's spot a few hours after checkout. I texted the host. He responded promptly and agreed.
Cons:
1. The sofa in the living room was horrible. Tiny, scratchy, and extremely uncomfortable. You can't lean back on it, because there is only a tiny back cushion, a few inches high. It was the only place to sit in the living room, and no one liked sitting there. We'd hoped to crash on the sofa at night and watch a movie, but it really wasn't possible. The four of us didn't even fit on it.
Unbelievably, this sofa is also supposed to be a bed. You create the "mattress" by pushing the sides out, making it slightly wider. This seems like an extremely uncomfortable place to sleep, and too small for most adults.
2. Weeks before we arrived, my card was charged for the entire stay. That was part of the deal, so that is fine. However, we were not told the unit number of our condo until 5 am on the day we traveled. So we did not have an address until the morning we left. This left me with a sense of discomfort during the days before our trip.
3. There is only one key fob. So your whole group has to stay together.
4. The shower controls in the master bath are a real problem. There are two dials, but there's no marking on them. It's impossible to know what they do, and they get stuck a lot. It took me a half an hour of adjusting them till I gave up. Then my husband found a crumpled piece of corrugated cardboard in the bedroom, which contain a diagram describing how to adjust the knobs. So it seems other people had this difficulty also (other reviews confirm this). I'm surprised they don't replace this fixture.
5. The checkin process--After a long day of travel, the check-in process is difficult, although the host did provide good instructions with pictures. You park your car on the street, get out, enter two codes. You have 60 seconds to rush inside and enter your floor number in the elevator. At the condo door, you enter another code, go inside, grab the key fob, go downstairs, get in your car, then use the key fob to enter the garage. It's a lot.
6. The sheets on the bed had strange rust-colored streaks on them in a few places.
7. We visited in summer. This condo is very white. The curtains are pretty sheer. As a result, the sun came in through the windows and woke us up very early. I think the hosts should install blackout curtains in the summer. This is a bigger problem than it sounds, because it left us pretty tired during the day.