I’m sorry to say this, but we had a really bad experience.
The unit is in a great location, 10 minutes away from Back Bay station and 15 minutes away from Fenway Park. The building is really nice, it’s a brownstone like most of the houses in the neighborhood and the unit has been recently redone. But that’s were the positive things end.
The room smelled really bad, we contacted the host, who was really fast to answer and sent some cleaners with an ozone-machine to clear the air, but unfortunately it didn’t help at all. The smell was so persistent that it stayed on all of our clothes that were packed in the suitcases (we didn’t think of keeping them closed all the time).
The carpet in the hallway has a permanent vomit stain that of course smelled really bad, too. The cleaners tried to cover it using some kind of detergent that helped for a few hours, but then the bad smell was back again.
The room has only white blinders that let the light through, so I was awake every morning around six, when the day starts to become brighter.
The unit’s door is really difficult to open, both going in and out of the unit. Even after having inserted the code and unlocked it, we almost had to shoulder it to get in every time we came back.
Our main contact with the host was through Abbi, who was really nice to us and went above and beyond to help fix our problems. She was very quick to answer to our messages, even after 9pm, and she sent the cleaners right away when we explained the bad smell problem. So thank you Abbi for your help, I’m sorry it didn’t work out!