Despite the excellent location of the apartment, it was not exactly what we expected.
Pros:
The apartment's location is excellent and the price is quite reasonable if you're looking to save money on accommodation and spend more at the lovely restaurants Mexico City has to offer.
Cons:
There are no real windows in the apartment (only very tinted windows that have a view of a storage area, so the lighting is very poor. It almost seems as if it is a basement apartment. For a group of 3 women in their mid-twenties, this apartment is not ideal. The lighting is poor in the apartment. There is only a face mirror in the bathroom...there is also a 5x7-inch mirror we discovered on our second day inside the door of one of the closets, which isn't very accessible. There is also no hair dryer in the apartment. To say the least, it was challenging for 3 ladies to do their hair and makeup to enjoy the nightlife in Mexico City!
One major issue in the apartment is the air quality. The apartment is extremely humid and cold. All of our clothes (in our suitcases and the clothes we hung in the closet) were quite damp by day 3, and our towels never dried after the first day despite trying to hang them in the bathroom, the living room and laying them out to dry on the couch.
We were also disappointed that the sofa bed was not available for us to use. The host set up a single bed and the double bed but we anticipated having a complete sofa bed and a double bed so we (3 women) would have space to sleep more comfortably.
Finally, check-in was not a breeze. The host said he would not be available the day of check-in, so he put me in contact with a friend. The friend had limited availability to open the apartment for us, so we were rushing our day at the pyramids to come back to Mexico City to meet the host's friend at 6pm sharp (we were staying at a hotel the night prior, not coming from the airport). Generally I think guests of airbnbs should be able to check-in anytime as long as it is after the set check-in time and not in the middle of the night. We rushed to get to the apartment at 6pm, whereas we would have liked to have a more flexible check-in, arriving at the apartment whenever we returned from our day trip to the pyramids.