We walked in, to the smell of mold and a smokers stench. Ants were crawling everywhere on the floor, lizards sneaking in the lanai door if we left it open, dirty walls on the bathroom. The shower would back up with water while in use. The curtains were bloodied with stains from a previous occupant. The lanai was dusty.
The smell of the smoke and mold could not be aired out due to the tenants below us smoking day and night. We did our best to keep the window and door closed due to the smoke. In addition to a lizard sneaking into the apartment when the lanai door would open.
Checking in was easy. And that would be the problem that concerned my husband. As the code for the door was written on a hard copy file inside the room, thus the same code has been used for previous occupants. And from our observation this was a well established local hotel for high school and college students to host their parties.
Communication was fair I had texted the supplied number about the ants as soon as we arrived in case there was bug spray there at the place. The bug spray was dropped off by someone else who had the door code the next day, yes I didn’t want the whole island to have the code to my room. We also had to sleep there so we went within the hour to buy our own bug spray and disinfectant so that we can complete the job unfinished by the cleaners. We also bought towels because we didn’t want to use the dusty/mold smelling towels that were there. We left the parking pass on the kitchen island as directed in the provided rules manual. Yet, after we had left we received emails that they couldn’t find it. In addition to threatening of charges that were to be added to our stay, for lost parking passes. It was not an enjoyable feeling leaving a rental that was below par only to think you were going to be charge more for that particular stay. Then the email changed to a security key, being lost. I didn’t even know there was a secruity key in the unit let alone where it would be of we never used it.
Even though the parking is free and the clearance for our vehicle was fine when tested, it was still an inconvenience for parking. Our car was fine when inspected by the security officer for clearance. Even so, we went up multiple floors and our car was fine. It wasn’t until we would leave the structure that it scrapped the roof as we descended each floor. We had to get street parking from there un out, which was a long walk if lucky. No parking on the first floor allowed either.
I would not stay here again with children. It would be a good buy for high school kids or college students looking for a house party location.