My husband and I stayed here for 3 nights and here are our thoughts and eating for the host, apartment and the location separately:
Host: 5+
Sumiyo is a very nice host. She kept great communication before and throughout our stay. She tried to be helpful as much as possible. We enjoyed interacting with her.
Apartment: 3
The place is on the fourth floor with 50 VERY steep stairs. I don’t know if I missed it in the description but the future guest should definitely know that. It was a challenge to bring our luggage up and down. Coming back from dinner even without suitcases was not easy and we’re in a pretty good physical shape.
The apartment is smaller than it seems on photos. It was hard to stay organized with our clothes because the closet is in the bathroom, so while one person is using it, the other one doesn’t have access to the closet. The kitchen is very poorly designed (with respect to the old building). There was no garbage can so we had use a plastic bag. The house rules are that you have to take out your trash to the street before leaving. That was inconvenient since it’s a block away and then you have to use those stairs again.
Water pressure was weak. Wi-if works only in the leaving room/kitchen.
Location: 4
Regardless of the fact that the apartment is on the 4th floor, you can hear every person talking on the street and it’s a busy one. We heard people and cars passing by throughout the night. There are a couple of restaurants nearby but we wanted to be closer to the center so we had to do A LOT of walking. One good thing was that there is a taxi stop a block away which was very convenient when we were leaving with our bags.
We are wishing Sumiyo the best but we would not stay here again.