Overall the stay at Lesley’s place was just okay.
The place is very good in terms of location is central, safe neighborhood, has all things to make a quick meal, sleep, shower etc. parking is also provided which is amazing. It’s also dog friendly. Wifi was wicked fast and tv was great. Checks those boxes.
The downside is that while we were there, there was construction going on. Lesley was upfront at check in with the work not being finished as expected, but we were not quite prepared to see workers banging on the walls and working right outside our windows, which was uncomfortable and also frustrating due to the loudness of some of the banging. For the most part Lesley was very quick to respond, however this happened for more than one day when we had thought that it was established they would not be working while we were staying. There were at least 2 other times I had to ask Lesley to please stop her workers. On check out day, they began working and tarping our door around 8 am, when check out is at 11. I did not get a response from Lesley at checkout, and I had to personally ask the workers directly if they didn’t mind giving us just a bit of privacy and maybe try to keep noise down until we were gone at 11.
Lesley and her husband were very good with fixing some other issues however, like the broken sink that must have moved during a recent earthquake. We did appreciate how fast and handy they took care of that.
The whole place is a bit older, so some things may benefit from updating. We also rented thinking we could work from home based on the photos but it turns out that the larger desk is no longer there and we couldn’t really work on the smaller circular one now there. So I thought that part wasn’t 100% accurate.