My family and I stayed at this rental for an entire week at the being of May 2017. This was our first airbnb experience and we based our choice of rental heavily off reviews. So I'm going to do a honest review for those trying to make a decision.
The outside of the building is beautiful true to pictures and the location are the only plus in my opinion. It's literally right off of Magazine Street which is a beautiful area to walk, shop, eat, it's an easy walk to the French Quarters and five blocks from the St. Charles streetcar lines.
We only stayed 2 days in this particular rental which was a basement rental and was relocated to a much smaller unit "studio one" due to issues.
Cons:
1. Bed was really uncomfortable
2. Pull out sofa- was rebuilt and you could feel the bars when you sat or laid on it
3. Humidity- made the floors feel greasy and we literally ran the de-humidifier non-stop dumping a full tank twice a day
4. Insect problem- woke up day 2 to a unit of increasing appearance of mouths and flys. We killed these insects literally all day. Flys were all over us and my baby and his sippy cup and food non-stop.
We contacted management inquiring if there was a hole in this unit and they were aware of the problem which would explain the bug trap behind the refrigerator. Maintenance came out to Inspect and we were notified we could sleep in another unit for a peaceful rest and maintenance sprayed the unit. We decided not to stay in the unit do to fear that spraying would only satisfy the problem temporarily. Upon return to move our things out of this unit after it was sprayed, we counted 41 dead flys and this didn't include the amount of flys and mouths we killed the day prior.
This vacation was really needed for our family, but staying in a studio unit with a toddler did not equate to a restful vacation at all. Did this experience leave a sour taste in our mouth, yes. Studio One, was better but my husband is now turned off from using Airbnb again. I can say management was nice and in the end the owner did everything in their might to compensate for our inconvenience.