It is really important to me to be honest here so that future potential guests can have all of the facts before they consider a booking here. This listing should not be an Airbnb Plus listing and in my opinion it should not be available to be booked over the weekend or on any other busy nights for the bar directly below. This is not a "potential for some noise" situation but instead completely unacceptable as a place for someone to sleep.
The noise that comes up from the bar is awful and it is impossible to sleep until about 4am when the bar closes. We were booked for a Friday and Saturday night and ended up having to leave after the first night. I am a heavy sleeper and have lived directly next to train tracks where trains rattled my apartment that I could handle. I currently live on a busy street in the inner city and have sirens wailing by my house at all hours of the night with no problem. When I am explaining that the noise is awful it is like having a dance club in the next room with bass that vibrates the floor/walls and people were screaming profanity and smoking outside your window all night. The smell of smoke came into the room and made it hard for me to breathe. While taking a video for proof of excessive noise, my husband witnessed people passing around a substance that they were all snorting. When the host was confronted about this with video evidence through Airbnb, she would not refund us a reasonable amount for our stay and we had to go into the resolution center to get our money back from this horrible experience. It would be one thing if she was just as upset by the situation with the bar as we were and went out of her way to make it right, but when asked to give us a refund she refused. We were also told early on that if any issues come up we should text/call the housekeeper directly, not use the Airbnb message system. This made me feel like the host did not care to communicate with me throughout the stay.
This listing is also located on the same block as a homeless shelter, and if there is not a free parking spot open across the street from the apartment the only other free parking that is available is the parking directly in front of the shelter. There were groups of people hanging around when we came and went from our car and I definitely felt like we were intruding on the space they needed. In hindsight I wish we would not have parked here and instead paid to park somewhere else.
The final straw in this situation was that the memory foam mattress was not set up with the right kind of foundation it needed which made for an uncomfortable bed. Memory foam mattresses need a completely flat space under them in order to work properly otherwise they sag and squish through any spaces or openings beneath them. Memory foam mattresses should not be paired with traditional box springs. I submitted picture evidence of the saggy spots left behind when both my husband and I tried to sleep on the bed together. He ended up sleeping on a yoga mat on the concrete floor because that provided more support than the mattress.
If you are looking for a place where you can get to sleep after 4am and are also part of the hard partying club, this might be a match for you. The apartment was furnished beautifully with gorgeous furniture and remodeled to look like a magazine, it is just located in the absolute worst location possible to get any rest at night unless you plan on also being out that late.