My boyfriend and I stayed here for a 3 day weekend with our dog.
Pros:
Being close to Fenway and the highway was great and we walked to the baseball game and liked that there were many restaurants/bars within walking distance!
Cons:
When we arrived, we saw that the bathroom was dirty/the shower was not cleaned 100%. Their was hair in the shower that wasn’t ours! Also, there was 1 bath towel for our stay for 3 nights?! We messaged the host to ask for more, and since we had our dog in the apartment and went out the next day, we had the cleaners leave the extra towels in a bag outside our room. They were never able to come back and “re-clean” the bathroom since we were not there/our dog was left there alone so we didn’t want anyone in the apartment without us there.
Parking:
We paid $35 a night to park since we didn’t know the area and weren’t sure if we could find spots with meters/being the weekend it could be tricky. All of the parking info was only given to us AFTER we paid and it turned out: the parking spot had to be shared with another random person, you had to park tandem with them and coordinate “ring around the rosy” during your stay of who can block who, and it was about a 5 minute walk from where we were staying! So to check in and out, we had to double park in front of the building, bring the stuff in/out, then get the car. The worse part was we went out on Saturday and came back….. and someone was parked in our spot!!!! We called/contacted the host immediately and although she tried to offer assistance by offering to go send someone to ee who was there, the person from the building came out 10 minutes later and just sped away. It was a very sketchy/inconvenient situation all weekend to deal with.
The kitchen had barely anything available for use! We heated up leftover pizza in the oven, and there were NO oven mitts or dish towels! My boyfriend burned his hand! Also, NO paper towels to be found! It was odd that the kitchen wasn’t more stocked with these simple essentials.
The basement apartment was a little sketchy. We knew it would be near the laundry room and that’s fine, but it was old looking inside and our lock to the door was so dingy and looked like the door could be broken down if I slammed my foot into the door. We didn’t feel super safe and felt like the advertisement of the building was misleading.
Overall, for the money we spent and all the inconveniences, we would not return to this apartment.