In short, my son and I found the room to be acceptable for the price. It was clean, smelled fine, and was a relaxing place to stay for a few days. Compared to other nearby locations that I considered (I was looking for something close to the Excel Center) this room's relatively low price is what attracted me.

For the price, it isn't surprising that this is a pretty basic room with a shared bathroom. The room is small. And with a queen-size bed in it, it lacks space for much else once you place your luggage on the floor. There is a nightstand with 3 drawers (but 2 of the 3 drawers already contained items). There is also a wardrobe in the room, which was useful and it had 2 large drawers (but 1 of the 2 drawers already contained items). Since we only stayed for 3 nights, which is not long enough (in my opinion) to unload a suitcase into the room's furniture. So, the partially filled drawers were not an issue for me.

The window in the room could use drapes or shades to keep the room darker in the mornings, for those that want to sleep in. But, my son and I were tired tourists so the light didn't prevent us from sleeping. Both the room and the bathroom could be helped by some more shelves to place one's things on, but we managed okay.

Given the cramped space, and drawers already filled with other people's things, the place felt like I was visiting a college buddy and staying at his house in a spare room. That was fine with me, although my son made clear he would have preferred a hotel room.

As for the neighborhood, it does suffer from occasional noisy jets landing at City Airport, but I only noticed a few a day (and none earlier than about 7am as I recall). The neighborhood is a little neglected, sadly, as there is quite a bit of trash lying on the ground here and there, but the people in the neighborhood we saw seemed nice, and we felt perfectly safe.

Imran was a nice host. In the weeks and days before arrival, he stayed in touch with me making sure I would have no problems finding the place and checking in. We did check in just fine when we arrived... Imran's nice wife met us at the flat (he was out at the time) but he arrived later and introduced himself and made sure we were comfortable and our questions were answered. He made himself available to us should we need anything, but we didn't need anything during our stay so we didn't see him again until we checkout out.