I all over the place and almost always use AirBnb, and my experiences have pretty much all been fantastic.
Till this place. Oh well, I guess a bad apple was bound to crop up sooner or later.
The good:
The price (though, to a large extent, you get what you pay for)
The location – a 10-20 minute walk to many interesting places in La Condesa
Cleanliness – the room was clean
The bad:
The hot water: it went off after about 2 minutes, several times, the first time leaving my wife with a head full of shampoo. We contacted the hosts, thinking it was probably something as simple as turning a valve on, or lighting a pilot light, but the hosts refused to do anything about it or even check. Instead, they called my wife a liar, saying, and this is the quote: “there’s definitely hot water”. So from then on, we had no choice but to heat a pot of water on the stove and bring it to the shower in case the hot water died again, which it did 2 more times, when we were forced to take sponge baths, a la the 1800s.
The “roof terrace”. This is not at a “terrace”; it's the roof, with a couple chairs, but also with pipes and structural beams all over the place, so it's a death trap at night because the hosts don't provide any lighting. In the US or Canada, this would violate about 10 code safety regulations, and get the place shut down till they fixed it, because, as we learned the hard way, if you come back late at night (as one is inevitably going to do in La Condesa), it's very likely you're going to trip and hurt yourself. Because it's very dark up there. Especially if you've had something to drink. Which we didn't, thank heaven, but good luck to you if you don't have your wits about you. You're likely to lose a few teeth as you trip over a pipe.
The stairs leading to the roof: 1) As many revies have mentioned, getting a large suitcase up them is a seriously challenging event, and you're probably get your hands banged up trying. I did. 2) If you wear heels (as most women do when going out at night in La Condesa), you're asking for trouble because the stairs are just the frames of steps and your heel will go right through. What happens after that might not be very pretty. 3) The hosts don't light those stairs either, so if you come back at night, you have to feel your way through a neighbor's laundry area and then up the stairs. Going down them in the dark is not the most fun thing either.
The hosts: they simply refused to help solve the hot water problem, didn't apologize or even offer to send someone over to look. And then when you leave, no “thanks for staying with us!” or anything. Rather, they expect you to be the maid service and clean out all the garbage and haul it down all those dicey stairs to the garage. And to cap it all off, they don't even ask politely; they give you an order as though you're an employee.
So all in all, for us, a not great experience.
But if you're young and don't have much money, don't have much luggage, don't go out at night (or carry a good flashlight with you), don't imbibe much, don't mind having hosts who treat you like a lying employee, and don't mind sponge baths, it might be just the place for you.