Geez, really? - even a low budget hotel provides more basic amenities than this studio apartment.

Just basics like a small bar of hand soap and shampoo, washcloths, a hairdryer, a full length mirror, quality pillows and linens and extra blankets in the closet could make this be an acceptable rental. None of that is here. In fact, not even a full roll of toilet paper. How is that an acceptable AirBnB? It's unlike anywhere I've ever stayed.

Several people have complained in the comments about the pillows being like rocks, believe them! I ended up sleeping with my airline travel pillow because it was more comfortable than the flat rock pillows. I was tempted to find a Target and buy a $20 pillow just to make it through the rental, but I'd already had to bring all the basics like shampoo & soap & toilet paper - what gives? Even Motel 6 gives you these rudimentary basics - this is not a lowball price for this rental either.

The sun shades are great during the day but at night it's like sleeping with a spot light on from the city outside the window and there are not drapes to close to help darken the room that faces Newbury Street.

Simple basics like a sponge and dishsoap and paper towels when renting a place with a kitchenette are not too much to expect but none of that here.

In the bathroom a tiny shelf to hold cosmetics would be an easy help since the sink and toilet tank both slope and everything slides off, meaning I had to put everything on the kitchen counter and take it in and out of the bathroom when I needed it. Even using my curling iron meant trying having no place to rest it and no mirrors in any other part of the apartment to try using it somewhere else.

It was fine just to park myself in this studio, but definitely no more comfortable than staying at a motel 6. The front door to the building was propped wide open most of the time, eliminating the sense of security and the noise from the head shop on the first floor was a problem every night. It was on Newbury Street, close to my business appointments, but otherwise, I wouldn't stay here again and, in fact, I left on Friday morning and stayed at a hotel the last two nights of my stay so I could get a restful sleep.