This place was a really interesting antique apartment in a great location. It does not keep me from writing a negative review on it. It has the capability of being really nice and charming, but needs a lot of work to get up to most people’s standards. It lacks a major renovation, updated furnishings, and instructions on how to operate items in the unique apartment.
First, when you walk in on the landing there engraved in the floor is the year “1859” or the last time the floor was redone, and maybe the last cohesive renovation. The floor is nice, but after 150 years needs some TLC as some of it is falling apart. Much like the paint which is discolored, cracked and flaking. I’m guessing the last paint job was 40 years ago. The doors are all weird and look like they are falling off the hinges. The water heater continually makes this loud cracking and pooping noise, and the underneath has exposed wires (and the thing is gas)… I thought the house might explode. The kitchen itself is pieced together and has this warped fiberboard bar on top of it. We looked for the washer and found a unit in the attic and messed with it for a bit…and got frustrated and had to call the agent. I guess this one was a spare or a broken one because we found the real one in a closet in the attic.
The bigger issue we has was the furnishings. They were all gross, and like the paint it had probably been 40 years since someone had tended to them. The couches in the main living area had dirty sheats thrown over the top of them and were maybe the grossest things Ive seen. They were soogy and uninviting, much like the couch in the dining room which was soogy, and I felt something break under me when I sat down (I am not a heavy person). The beds were uncomfortable, and the sheets were equally old. I question whether they were cleaned lately. The kitchen ware was equally gross (unclean and dusty) and all mismatched stuff. We liked the roof deck, but it was not the same one as the one in the pictures! The roof deck furniture was also this old plastic lawn furniture that had not been cleaned in probably a year.
When we got there we tried the WIFI, the password taped to the top of the router was wrong. The feedback from the host was “unplug and plug it back in”… well if you can reach the router and it says “wrong password” I believe that to be the case. We ended up resetting it to default ourselves and getting it to work that way. The apartment is cold in April, and we didn’t understand how the radiators worked (they are wall mounted gas radiators)… after talking with the host he said there is a thermostat involved and it is hidden behind one of the doors. The host had the thermostat set to 10 degrees Celsius. So for the first day before we figured this out we were all cold. Items like these could be easily handled in an instruction booklet.
I’ve gotten a lot of AirBnb’s before, this one needs some help regardless of location. 2 stars.