A mixed review, stay tuned for the negative stuff. I’ll try to be brief, ( yeah right! :)
The apartment is sunny and bright, looks like the pictures, perfect for a solo traveler. I loved the rustic design and the terrace. The kitchen is fully equipped, coffee maker, blender, micro-wave, although no hot water in the sink.
Bed is ok, I slept well. Small, maybe a full size? And no plastic cover that some had mentioned. The bathroom is good, warm shower, no issues, except bring your own soap, lol. No TV, but wi-fi is good enough to stream Netflix.
It’s missing some details that could easily fixed and appreciated. Like soap and more than one roll of toilet paper, salt&pepper, maybe even some cooking oil, and how about a bottle of water? It seems cheap not to have these things included, anywhere.
The door to the terrace could be fixed, it “shrieks” horribly when opening and It’s also very simple to jump over the stairwell fence to the terrace so I suggest you close the folding door when out and at night.
Great location with plenty of good food options. around. Try Dorados de Durango on the corner, comida corrida, a 3 course home cooked lunch for about 80 pesos. Great!
It’s situated in an alleyway, and the street number I received didn’t seem to exist. Make sure to ask the host about a detailed description how to get there. If you’ve never been to the city, don’t speak Spanish and arrives at night, I can imagine feeling a bit scared and lost. I was lucky, I asked a lady on the street and she happened to work in the building and took me up to the place and even offered to carry my suitcase! Sweet woman! Yeah, it’s a 4 story walk up and with the high altitude of CDMX you gonna be huffing and puffing.
The communication with host was friendly and attentive, up to a point, and here comes the back story ya’all been waiting for! lol
I had booked this space for a week and ended up staying 2 days.
On my way from the airport I got a message from the host: So sorry, but a transformer blew up and there’s no power! I was offered to stay in another listing, thankfully.
I ended up in big, dark, cold house in Condesa with plenty of issues of its own, feeling quite miserable. When asking if I was supposed stay there for the whole week or when could I go to my original reservation, my questions were ignored, twice.
I surrendered to staying there when I got a message 4 days later that the power would be back tomorrow by 1pm if I wanted to go this listing, also that other guests would be arriving at the house, so it wasn’t much of a choice really.
But I was happy to go.
I arrived, with the nice lady who worked for other host in the building, and the door was open, the place not cleaned, bed in disarray etc, the lady told me 2 guys had just left the same day… Hey, there was even a man-smell in the air!
Others had been staying in my reserved apt? What was the deal? Was the power outage just made up? I texted the host, “Condesa”, asking ,what’s up with that? Her reply,-No the guys left last week…obviously a blatant lie. Another person (no names) confirmed that 2 guys had checked out that same day. I left it alone but on the day of leaving, I had been promised a late check-out when the cleaning lady knocked on the door, oh no, there a guests arriving.
So in my last message to the host, I asked again, why others had been staying there and I couldn’t? The gloves came off, finally. She had given me this other place that costs the double and I should be grateful , pretty much, and of course still stuck to her story.
Had I stayed in Roma Nte the whole week I probably would have given it 5 stars, but the whole thing became a headache. I’ll probably never find out the truth, but I did found out there are 2 identical listings fo this apt, under different host names, one with plenty of bad reviews and one with none at all, the one I booked from. So I’ll be the first reviewer on that one, lol.
You’ll probably have better luck! Oh, and thanks for reading this very looong review!