If you’re 21 this is great.
If you’re 27+ or have kids or generally want to relax or sleep at all. Not the place.
When we arrived we found this apartment is directly above a Hookah lounge and next to 2 bars. Not multiple floors up, right above. It’s super loud and music plays until 2 am. Then early AM you can hear trucks outside as well as construction on the hotel across the street. Also it’s an old building with little sound proofing so you can hear upstairs neighbors, people walking and talking in the hallway, everything. They do provide a sound machine that was helpful to drown out the noise a little.
The entrance is on the patio of the hookah lounge so you have to walk through hookah smoke and people crowded around the door. Couldn’t open the windows because of all the hookah smoke, I didn’t feel comfortable opening windows and letting the smoke in and breathing that. If I was staying alone or with other females I wouldn’t feel comfortable staying here with all the people crowded around the entrance. There are also A LOT of stairs to get to the door. If you have trouble with stairs, I don’t recommend staying here.
The bathroom wasn’t clean. Multiple hairs in the bathtub, a bunch of hair in the drawer with the hair dryer and hair under the toilet lid. Also the hot water took a really long time to warm up and even then was only luke warm. The host mentioned there is the same water heater for the whole building so not sure if maybe hot water ran out? But we showered at different times of day and all the time it was like warm. When I told the host, there were no solutions offered to us for our stay to have a hot shower, just that he’d have someone check it after our stay which was disappointing as we never got a hot shower.
Also ladies- the lighting in the bathroom isn’t ideal. The lightbulbs are different shades of light one white and 2 yellow so it made for doing makeup to be hard
The kitchen doesn’t have much. Not an issue if you plan to eat out but if you plan to cook there is only 1 pan and 1 or 2 small pots.
If you are young and just want to party, it’s a great location. Otherwise I’d recommend staying elsewhere. Overall it was an ok place but just not for us.