Pros: this place has beautiful bones, in a great location for a reasonable price. From a design perspective, it is well put together. Plant lovers and rooftop aficionados will enjoy this place. It’s small but has everything you need. I particularly liked the water purifier, the roof and of course the plants. I think it’d be a good place to stay for a short trip.
Cons: the drain in the bathroom smells - a lot, and we had friends who stayed there 2 years ago who said it smelled then. Could be common in this city, but when we brought it up it sounded like it had never been mentioned. Property manager tried to alleviate by pouring a cleaner into the drain but it didn’t go away. We also had nearly 4 days with an overwhelming smell of gasoline, which, after investigating, seemed to have been a neighboring restaurant’s fumigation! We slept with the windows open for 4 nights to mitigate. There wasn’t much the property manager could do but get some answers as to what was causing the smell, which she did. But dealing with the smell was very challenging and pretty toxic.
Property manager was quick to help fix blinds that weren’t working when we arrived, and came over to investigate the drain and other smells.
Communication could have been better. There was more lag time than I typically receive from AirBnB hosts, and it added some stress to our stay. Hosts have pre-scheduled messages that come through on a timer, which sometimes was confusing when we were trouble shooting with the property manager and suddenly got a “How is your trip going? Hope it’s good!” message randomly in the middle of talking out an issue.
Property manager was supposed to follow up with us about compensating for some of these oversights, but that hasn’t happened. I appreciate the offer but at this point it hasn’t yet happened.