If you need a place to JUST drop your bags and don't mind "slumming" it a bit? Then go for it. Otherwise - don't.
The location, as described, is spot on - two blocks from a metro stop. Which is great. The host was *very* responsive and made check-in easy enough if you had internet already.
But outside of those (and only those) two items? This place was a "bait and switch". Those pictures of a beautiful clean kitchen? The counters were grimy, cluttered with opened food wrappers, random junk, and grease caked "spice" jars.
The supposed "free" amenity of coffee consisted of one dirty grease / grime jar with 3 or 4 coffee pods in it, next to an equally disgusting grimy coffee machine. Next to that? A tip jar, asking the guests for tips for the gross coffee. Don't offer it as "free" if you'll try and ask us passively for money. Especially not from a dirty machine and a dirty container. Otherwise, why not just ask for "tips" for anything? Fresh water? Tips! Toilet paper? Tips!
The bedroom walls were scuffed up with dirt, marks, and dead bugs when we checked in. I took pictures upon arrival. There seems to have been some kind of rack on the wall, but it was ripped off at some point and now only one bar remains?
The bathroom had little notes posted on the wall from the host that said "Is the bathroom dirty? Then tell me this --> who used it last?" What? Really? The host wanted us, the guest, to try and figure out who used the bathroom last to get it cleaned? No, sir. That is your job as the host in a shared house like this.
Additionally the bathroom, for all the days we were there, had random hair products and bathing products strewn haphazardly on some kind of low bench. The shower didn't drain well. The shower door was broken and so never stayed on its tracks, which means water got all over the floor even though we spent most of the time while showering trying to make sure it DIDN'T. And because the bathroom floor is dirty, when we got out there was a gross muddy film on the floor. Ew.
Save yourself the headache and ew-factor...stay elsewhere.