The apartment was exactly as it appeared in the photos. The location is perfect for visiting the historic aspects of Boston. At the end of the block is the Boston Common, a beautiful park with great history behind it. Within two blocks is a grocery store where you can purchase not only groceries, but wine too. Also within two blocks is Cafe 26 and Bonjour, two great breakfast locations. You can see Yvonne's from your window, a wonderful place to have a cocktail and small plates.
A few hours before you arrive at the apartment Brian will send you the code to get into the building and a code to get into the apartment. The code for the apartment did not work so I called Brian. 40 minutes later I still did not have a return phone call. I realized later you must use the AirBnB system to contact them. Once I texted him through AirBnB he responded almost immediately with a backup code that did work.
The apartment has four bedrooms, one with a King bed and three with Queens plus two bathrooms. The beds were comfortable and the linens were pleasant. They do use either a detergent or fabric softener with fragrance in it but it was not too heavy an odor. I would highly recommend to the owners they stop using items with fragrance. Some of the bedrooms do not have any bureaus so I would recommend some drawer space be added to these rooms along with a mirror. The kitchen was lightly equipped, do not expect any food items like salt & pepper, oil, vinegar etc. to be there. I assume the cleaning people remove everything. There was a small bottle of dishwashing detergent, a sponge, no dishtowels. Brian did offer to give us access to their storage area so we could get whatever we needed.
There is no instruction book in the apartment. We had difficulty figuring out how to work the climate control. It was 90 degrees outside when we arrived and someone had set the climate control on heat and we had no idea how to change it. Brian did forward us a link to the on-line manual. The TV was also very confusing. There is a Comcast router with a cable connected to the wall, the router and the TV. We assumed it was Cable TV, wrong. It is set up using Chromecast (which we had never heard of) not Cable so you have to stream whatever it is you want to watch. To make matters worse, someone rewired the cable setup on the TV so it did not work. Brian spent an entire evening texting back and forth with us trying to help us get set up. We were finally able to use Netflix but that was as far as we went.
While you are occupying the apartment please be cognizant of the fact that your footsteps will be heard loudly & clearly by the people below you, so walk lightly.