Review for Beatrice

Highly recommend this place! My friend and I stayed here for 6 weeks during our pharmacy rotation in Chicago. This was both our first time using Airbnb and we were both very satisfied with our experience here.

Beatrice was in close contact with us via text and email prior to our arrival and throughout our stay. We, unfortunately, didn’t get a chance to meet Beatrice because of her travels, but her husband, Joe, gave us a great orientation to the place and reached out to us whenever we needed any extra coffee or tea. (BTW excellent coffee!!) Joe was very approachable and gave us any assistance we needed. Since we stayed for a long period of time, Joe also provided us a crockpot (there is no stove, just a conventional oven and microwave). It was so helpful! We felt very welcomed here, truly a home away from home. The neighborhood was very safe (a lot of dog walkers and baby strollers). I have walked home around 10pm and I felt very safe. There is a great grocery store (Harvest) within 2 blocks of walking distance and the Bus Route 81 bus stop was only 6 minute walk away or the brown line 10 minutes away. I would recommend downloading RideChicago app if you plan to use public transit to give you real bus time arrivals. Beatrice has a black binder full of good recommendations for food and shopping around the area, which was super helpful to have handy.
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he room was very clean and had a lot of towels, comforter, dishes, and tuberware for us to use; nice access to laundry with detergent; loved the fact we did not need a physical key, just an access code to the door. They even have two space heaters for us in case it got too cold. The only downside was the strength of the wifi can be weak at the desk in the bedroom. It definitely seems stronger near the dining table. Just realize it will take an extensive period of time to download huge media files or upload. Overall, we were very happy with our first experience with Airbnb. If we come back to Chicago, we would definitely come back to this place.