What everyone else has said (I read the reviews before booking this place) is true. Here are some things not many others have talked about that at a minimum you should know about before booking:
- Parking is terrible. The location is great, yes, but the actual room itself is in the far back corner of the hotel complex in a dead-end zone, and the only free parking is on the street at the front of the hotel, at least a 5-10 minutes walk, JUST to get from your car to your room. That's also only if you're lucky because there are only about 10 spots. If the street parking is full, then you're going to have to park even further away. If you want to park near your room, expect to pay about 20% extra on your base room fare.
- The bathroom has no ventilator (there is a window but for this particular unit the new washer/dryer machine has jammed it shut), so if you're going to take a shower then things in the bathroom never dry. Especially given that their shower room is just half a block of wall and then the other half is open space, you're going to get water spilling all over the bathroom floor, and you're only choice is to mop it up with your own towels else it's just still water on your floor.
- Speaking of the floor, half of the floor is a really old carpet that is questionably clean (not because they don't clean it, but mainly age), and then the other half is a very rough rock tile. It's not smooth, and it's got crevices and cracks throughout, like a real rock you'd find outdoors. I've personally never seen such tiling in a residential home, and personally, I don't find it to be that comfortable to walk on or interact with (related to the above point, if water gets on this tile, then it just pools in the crevices and cracks and is annoying to clean, again because in the bathroom it won't dry)
- There was a cockroach in our apartment one night. Not the end of the world, but where we come from we almost never see them, and it was very unsettling and very uncomfortable for us. The manager was very responsive and sprayed some stuff around the unit by the next night, but just be aware that this is a very real possibility. The unit has jalousie windows, which can't completely close shut in a sealed manner, so both sound and outdoor critters can enter the unit.
- Lastly, fees. I believe when we booked the base room fare was about ~$100, give or take 10 dollars or something. After all the random fees, we paid about $250 per night for the room (which is tiny btw, really only meant for one, two have to squeeze). This room is part of a larger complex which is primarily run as a hotel for I'm guessing pretty affluent guests. This room in the corner is being rented on Airbnb probably because it's small and not as attractive as their many other rooms. That being said, because it still belongs to a much larger operation, my guess is that's the reason for the many fees. So at the end of the day, in my opinion, value is questionable here.
HOWEVER, I want to make clear that the many pros and applause for this place isn't due to its own credit. The location is indeed amazing, the place was clean (or as clean as it could probably get given what I mentioned above), stuff worked well, AC was available and worked great, check-in was seamless and easy, we had our own dedicated PoC who responded quite quickly and answered all our questions and issues. There's plenty to like about this place. That being said, I don't see enough of the cons or just other information regarding this room, thus the extended review.
At the end of the day, it's your choice whether or not you want to take this place. It's a good place, but I personally wouldn't wholeheartedly recommend this place without checking out other options first. There are serious pros, but in my opinion, also serious cons, whether you book it just depends on you the reader and what you value more in an AirBnb.