The location is fantastic. The house is big but leaves something to be desired. This feels like a rental-only unit, which probably explains why some of the beds aren’t very comfortable and the towels are scratchy. It also explains why the owner/manager didn’t know that the heat wasn’t working on the third floor. They came over first thing the next day to fix it (communication was always quick), but the damage had been done...our 1 year old was up all night and couldn’t go back to sleep.
There are plenty of bedrooms to sleep the advertised 8 (or more) guests but there is only seating in the front room for 5 and in the back room for 4 or 5. That’s too bad when you want to spend time with your housemates. In the front room, maybe a few more chairs or a bench in front of the fireplace would be nice to support hanging out with the other guests. The springs on the couch in the front room don’t support the middle cushion so whoever has the middle position will probably not be comfortable.
Parking costs extra. The kitchen is renovated and relatively new, as is the master bath. Everything else is the average age of DC row houses.
Two odd features were that the host required the names, ages, and emails of all guests and requested that we wash and dry the towels ourselves before leaving, which added stress as we were packing up. Seems like the exorbitant cleaning fee should’ve covered that.