Santiago was my first introduction to Chile before heading south to Torres del Paine, and after being south, I miss Santiago and I miss Carolina and Claudia’s great place. Their apartment is right near Manuel Montt and the convenience of being able to jump on the subway within 3 minutes was just amazing. There are also lots of great restaurants around the area (and the subway takes you to more).
We asked a lot of local questions of the hosts and they were amazingly helpful. From my personal snafu with the wifi password to forgetting to bring a locker lock and needing to hunt one down, the hosts helped out super quickly. They gave really detailed instructions and every time I didn’t know something, it was because I missed that part of the message.
An FYI for others - the auto-translate function in AirBnB messaging might change the password for the wifi. That’s what happened to me, and I kept entering the wrong password because I let AirBnB translate. Whoops!