I spent a week at Hans place. Its a great location, close to Piedmont Avenue, which is a wonderful street full of restaurants, small stores, movie theater, ice cream places, etc. "The Avenue" has a small town-ish feel in the middle of Oakland. The "studio" itself is indeed , as advertised, "cozy" (i.e. small). It was not scrupulously clean when I arrived, especially some of the windows/ window ledges, which had obviously quite old spider webs, including a few obviously deceased spiders who had obviously been there a while - some other insects. I didn't have time to ask for it be cleaned while there, so I don't know if/how that would've been addressed. The bed was very comfortable and rest of studio adequately clean - it is an older place so don't expect too much. The kitchen was ok (minimal but adequate pots and pans, good fridge, microwave worked fine, nice gas stove, etc.). The desk (with a TV on it) is quite small, didn't seem expandable to me, but I didn't ask. It was quiet when I was there, although there was some light (household, painting, a little sawing) construction going on on both sides, didn't start till 7 am or later But I'm a pretty heavy sleeper, and didn't really notice. In summary - great location, comfortable if small, not scrupulously clean but acceptable (at least for me), good instructions for arrival and leaving. Seems a little over priced for what you get, but with a few improvements, would be a good value.