Reliable and professional host speaking great English and who is running a business with many flats on AirBnB so you're generally not sharing the apartment with a host in classic AirBnB-style, but with other guests.

The apartment is located on a hill and can only be reached conveniently by taxi or bus. If you take a tram, you have to walk up the hill still. While it looks close on a map, only 400 m, the roads are very steep. So steep that some have stairs on the sidewalk. It reminded me of San Francisco! Both buses and trams are much slower than the MTR and the next MTR station is 2 kilometers from the apartment (Sheung Wan). I heard a new MTR station further West will open up in early 2015 which should make this flat significantly more accessible.

The apartment has four rooms for rent with one bathroom and no separate toilet. Only one other room was rented out while I was there though, so I was fine with that. The air conditioning is very noisy, but when I turned it off, I found myself waking up from lack of fresh air and high temperature every 3-4 hours (in October) so I kept it on and slept with ear plugs instead. As the air conditioning unit is placed inside the window, it gets covered up by the roll-down curtain and can't work properly. As the host pragmatically suggested I cut some holes in the curtain where the AC is to make it work at night.

There is also a large fan on the ceiling which is nice as it makes almost no noise and provides a light breeze.

During heavy rain, the room gets very noisy as raindrops hit the tin casing of the air conditioning unit that sticks far outside the window, but it only happened once at night during my stay. Finally, sparrows appear to have a nest somewhere between the window and the opposing wall so you often hear them, but I was no longer bothered by that once I had come to expect it.

Overall, a very affordable room by Hong Kong standards and very clean, too, with easy communication with the host.