We only booked this place because it was near Chinatown and made it easy for us to explore as soon as we’re up and ready to go! Chinatown starts opening up around 11:30am - 12pm. This hotel was only amazing because across the street is the dragon gate!
Here are a few issues they should’ve mentioned. I understand the buildings all around there are in similar conditions but I think it would’ve been better to let people know before.
1.) They don’t provide parking so there’s a parking structure a block down they suggest us to use for $42-$55. We arrived at 7pm and struggle a bit because it made us go in a circle. And we had to walk with luggages to the hotel, let’s just say it wasn’t the safest thing to do but we had to. During the day, it’s not bad at all. There’s more people (obviously) and it does get packed, since we had to pay $45 for the parking we just took advantage of it and explore Chinatown while the car was parked there. It wasn’t too bad, it’s just scary at night. (That’s prolly because to us, it’s an unfamiliar city that it caught us off guard.)
2.) They did mention about the elevator but the stairs… the stairs to go up to the room is extremely narrow, I’m glad I was on the 2nd floor because I only carried a duffel bag and it was difficult to get up already… I understand that the stairs can’t be fixed, I’ve been thru worst in Vietnam where I can’t even carry my duffel up, but a mention would’ve been great.
3.) The bed is just 2 beds pushed together, which I thought was cool because it’s a lot wider, but the edge where the two beds was stiff and makes it feel like it’s leaning so you’ll just end up on the edge of the bed regardless of how close to the middle you are. The blankets are really loud, it’s as if we are crumpling a paper bag every time someone moves… I ended up just using my blanket because I would constantly wake up. My sister was the one that slept on the pullout couch and she even said it was way too uncomfortable that she couldn’t sleep well.
I don’t want to sound like I’m complaining, I just want to mention these for other people that read reviews and descriptions before booking an Airbnb (which is what I do). We were only there to stay for the night and leave the next day to continue our trip. The stay wasn’t TOO bad, but it wasn’t THAT great either. For the price I guess it’s fine for the night just to hit the road the next day.