This unit served its purpose as a place to stay, but it wasn’t a comfortable one for a few reasons. I wouldn’t recommend this place to others.
Pros:
- price per night was fairly reasonable
- location was great and close to good restaurants
Cons:
- LOUD and noisy location at night. We stayed at a different Airbnb for the first half of our trip that was only 2 blocks away and was much quieter. We believe this unit has poor window insulation so you can hear every single car or person outside even on the 17th floor. This kept us up some nights when we really needed sleep
- Smelly. If another unit was smoking on their balcony you could smell it even if the sliding balcony door was closed. Really hard to sleep with cigar smoke wafting in.
- bathroom was dirty, random hair in the shower and the toilet seat looked extremely worn and used. The unit was advertised as “professionally cleaned” but I don’t believe that was true. The bathroom really needs updating, it was gross.
- no beach gear! Not one single thing! Usually a beach Airbnb has SOMETHING, like at least a big towel? If guests leave something here I suspect the owner just holds onto it instead of passing it on to other guests. For this reason we didn’t leave our beach chair and umbrella in the unit and gave to a nice couple at the airport rental car station just so we can ensure someone who needs it gets to use it.
- it felt like a crappy hotel room, not a Airbnb.
- elevators were super slow during rush hour and people would cram in tight instead of leaving room for others to breathe because the elevator was so slow to get to their floors, resulting in a non-Covid safe environment.