I am still traumatized from the horror. If I could give negative stars, or no star, I would. This was BY FAR THE WORST EXPERIENCE IN ALL MY AIRBNB TRAVELS! Where do I start? The neighborhood was horrific, while the building has potential the hostess made it as garish, depressing, dungeon/prison like as unhumanly possible, it was dirty and unhygienic, and the hostess was combative and threatening.
1st the neighborhood, the building is adjacent to a busy mortuary (literally) and that is the only buffer from a 12 lane Avenue with the metro trains running above ground in the middle. So you hear metros whirring past day and night, big rigs jerry breaking, crashing, spilling contents, emergency sirens at all hours of night, cars crashing, honking, dogs barking & howling all night, people yelling, emergency whistles sounding until whoever is whistling gets exhausted and they eerily fade into weak attempts to call for help. Because of this, this loud Avenue (Tlalpan) proudly hosts prostitution all day & all night - about 3-12 prostitutes per small block. They often only wear fishnet hose and platform heels. With that prostitution comes the pimps, jons, drugs, seedy hotels with private individual garages equipped with lights to indicate if occupied. If you don't like that kind of thing it can be really depressing, watching these poor girls and the sex trafficking. Then to brighten things up there's the Ramirez Funeral Home adjacent to this Airbnb and, interestingly, whose rooftop terrace shares the exact same garish paint combination of the INTERIOR of this unit; black and yellow!!!
2nd the place; DON'T LET THE FOTOS FOOL YOU!!! THE FLOOR, WALLS, CEILING, CLOSET, TILE, SHELVES, STORAGE CAGE; E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G IS PAINTED BLACK TOP TO BOTTOM!!! EVEN THE SHOWER CURTAIN IS BLACK! It feels demonic, and has that energy!!! The only thing white was the teeth of that dumb dog over the sink & between the mirrors. The lighting is garish and adds to the nightmarish effect of this place.
THE PLACE HAD EVIL ENERGY, TRULY.
The kitchen sink leaked and "cleaning" staff left the appliances, pots/pans on the floor under the sink leak. Don't worry you wont want to prepare a meal or eat in there, anyway. It was not cleaned property. The floor was filthy. It's unsanitary, unappetizing, and just plain awful.
3rd, the hostess; The hostess was unhelpful when my taxi driver could not find the place. No taxi driver EVER found it, and it's no wonder since she is on a pie shaped block with only 4 buildings on it. It's flanked by 3 MAJOR one-way highways and she never gave any hint of directions (like mentioning the 3 highways that surround it, or landmarks - even though there are many, including the mortuary. Instead she said I should get out of the taxi & find another. I even let her know I was at a neighborhood restaurant and gave her the street it was on (turned out to be one block away and around the corner), I asked her for walking directions and she responded, "get a cab". I then texted her asking can you please just tell me if I go left or right, and then what. Her response was "get out of that cab and get another". I knew this was not going to be good. So I walked with my two backpacks and a bag and somehow found her place. By the time I reached her entry door my back was hurting and I was tired from travel. Then she doles out the combinations needed for entry one-at-an-annoying-time, instead of giving you both combinations up-front. When my combo didn't work to get in my unit she told me to send her photo of door. She then said that when she says 2nd floor she means 3rd floor - "cuz that's how it's done in Mexico". I have been living & traveling in Mexico for 11 months now and have never seen any building, or host, refer to 3rd floor as 2nd. Then when you try to leave this cursed building there's a touchless system to leave that she never explains, you just have to figure it out.
She has these security combo's and then allows parties to be booked on the roof and window locks don't work!!! What the hell? SHE EVEN GETS BAD REVIEWS AS A ROOFTOP HOSTESS!!! READ ALL HER REVIEWS AND SEE. She earns more money from her rooftop parties than she does from renting about 3 rooms, so guess who she gives preference to? Not only did she rent the roof out for parties, but a man went up there to bang on his drums early in the morning. The whole thing was like a twilight zone.
The young, inexperienced party going travelers rate her ok, but not the seasoned travelers. LISTEN, THESE ARE STRANGERS, NOT GUESTS, COMING TO PARTY ON YOUR ROOF - YOUR BELONGINGS ARE NOT SAFE - THEY CAN CRAWL FROM STAIRCASE PICTURED IN HER AD RIGHT IN TO YOUR ROOM AND STEAL YOUR BELONGINGS, OR HURT YOU!!!
The one window is under the METAL stairway to rooftop and DOES NOT LOCK!!! Hostess rents out the rooftop for parties, and so does the Funeral Home next door, the one that is "coincidentally" painted in the same black & yellow. The party goers jump from roof to roof right over your head! The metal staircase and catwalks are loud and reverberate! They drop their beer bottles and you can hear the bottles rolling on top of your ceiling. If you complain she will send you a still shot of the roof when no one is on it and claim YOU ARE A PROBLEMATIC GUEST!!! The roof advertises 4:20 friendly with a large mural, which is ok by me by all means, but it is still illegal in Mexico and I saw several rooftop parties throughout neighborhood being broken up by police. BE CAREFUL! YOU DON'T WANT TO END UP IN A MEXICAN JAIL!
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