This is a room that probably shouldn't be rented. It is both wonderful and terrible. The location is great, and the studio is ultra modern with most of the conveniences you could ever want. HOWEVER, it is in the parking garage, underground. You have to go through the parking garage to find this basement apartment and even once you find it you feel like you're in the wrong spot. The room is a studio with a murphy bed. The bathroom has a frosted glass wall with a 1/2" gap between it and the glass door, so all toilet sights and sounds are on display for any guests or partners you're staying with. (Gross.) Even worse, there are two huge floor-to-ceiling windows in the corner of the room that have just a transparent pull-down shade to cover them. The shade does not cover the whole window though, so you can easily see in/out through the gaps on the edges. This wouldn't be so bad, except since you're in the basement anyone walking by can peer in. This includes the many construction workers who do (and will) be standing around outside your window. There is a MASSIVE construction site next door. We read a review in January talking about the construction and thought "well it'll probably be finished by our trip in June." WRONG. This is a giant open pit where they are building another huge apartment complex. It will be under construction for YEARS. Teams of construction workers literally do a morning group huddle outside the apartment window around 6:30am and then start banging, hammering, drilling and yelling by 7:00-7:30am. (Not to mention peeking in your window gaps.) The host could do a LOT to help this just by installing curtains over the windows that cover the gaps (and block more light).
This apartment is extremely ultra modern, but it feels like a room that the designer never lived in. I already mentioned the gap between the bathroom door and glass wall, and the fact that all your toilet sounds will echo throughout the tiny apartment, but the shower itself has angular handles on both sides of the glass door that you will 100% painfully jab into when showering or using the toilet. The only mirror in the entire apartment is the one above the bathroom sink, so I hope you don't want to see what your outfit looks like; there's no where to check your full length self out. All the appliances are hidden behind doors that look like cabinets--there is a fridge and even a dish washer, but you would never know unless you looked. Despite all this, there is no coffee pot. (There was a French press, but I've never used one and wasn't about to buy coffee to figure it out.) There was a kettle and the fixings for tea.
The bed was comfortable enough and the washer and dryer worked just fine. However, I had an allergic reaction to the detergent used. (My wife did not.)
All in all this is a fine studio for a single person. The location to downtown Victoria is unparalleled. It works for a couple who are very close and understanding, but even my wife made me turn the TV on for noise coverage when she was using the echoy, open bathroom. For the price you're paying, this room is, in my opinion, over priced. Add in the whole ordeal with the endless construction and noisy construction workers and I'd pass. We spent four days here and then another two in a different AirBNB on Yates Street and it was a night-and-day difference. The pictures here are deceiving. If you're a single traveler stay here, but otherwise pick somewhere else. This is a landlord's private residence being rented out as an AirBNB and it shouldn't be.