Don’t get this Airbnb!! It was honestly an awful experience and it ruined my vacation with my family.
The fact that my wife, kids, and in-laws had to stay here for Christmas and New Years was so depressing!
Pros :
- location was close a lot of great places. We could walk to many major landmarks. I actually loved that we were close to the African neighborhood because my boys and my father in law was able to get great haircuts.
- It was safe even though initially I didn’t think so.
- A lot of grocery stores are nearby
- It is very quiet
Cons :
- This place is a catfish. The pictures are way more polished than the actual apartment!
- The place was filthy! There were stains and broken stuff everywhere. The pillows on the bed and pillows on the couch had stains. The couch had stains! The walls were dirty. The floors had a thick layer of dirt. It was so bad that when you wore socks or was barefoot (God forbid), the bottom of your foot would be black. We complained and they sent a guy to clean but it literally didn’t help. It seemed like years of neglect resulted from that level of filth. The floors were so sticky and uneven everywhere.
- The downstairs bathroom doesn’t close all the way because they replaced part of the door with tissue. If you have toddlers they will expose you to whoever is in the living room since the door doesn’t close.
- If you are over 6ft, you will not fit in the bathroom upstairs. My wife is 5’11 and her knees were touching the bathroom door when she sat on the toilet.
- The upstairs bedroom has suicidal art on the walls. It was very alarming for my 8 year old. One of the art pieces had a sad lady holding a knife while she is sitting on the floor in the bathroom. The other one had her looking depressed and the writing on the wall would say creepy things like, “ I can’t live without you!” Do you want to sleep with art like that above your head?!?!
- When the washing machine is on the spin cycle, the whole kitchen shakes. No exaggeration at all. It literally feels like an earthquake and I’m from California so I’m very familiar with that feeling.
- The dryer setting turns off the power in the whole apartment.
- Your clothes don’t get fully dry
- The guy that “welcomed us” was extremely late meeting us and we had to stand outside in the cold with our three kids.
- When you get into the building you will be completely shocked at the condition of the building. The entrance looks like a roach motel.
- The showers having bad water pressure is an understatement. If you shower with warm or hot water, it feels like someone was spraying you with a spray bottle. It takes forever to get all the soap off of your body with that amount of water. After a few days you will get frustrated and just suffer through ice showers… in the winter!
- No elevator!
- The stairs are very dangerous if you have children. Don’t do it!! My children fell so many times. It was an awful experience!
- If you need to use the internet for work, forget about it. The internet was so weak that I had to use my phone as a hotspot so I could work.
- the space in the rooms and bathrooms are extremely small. I literally couldn’t open my luggage in my room because there was no space.
- the host couldn’t care less if you have any of these problems.