OVERPRICED FOR SUCH A BAD DEAL.
I honestly don't understand the high ratings of this listing.
To be fair, I will start with the good things:
- Location: Next to Central Square and the Red Line station.
- Cleanliness: In contrast with other reviews, this is a clean room in a clean house.
- Instructions: The instructions provided by the host were accurate, easy to follow, and conveniently delivered.
Bad things:
- Entrance and stairs: The room is at the second floor of the house, and the stairs are very narrow and inclined to be easily climbed with bags. No help was provided at all, because the host wasn't there to welcome us. The entrance hasn't lighting, so it's tricky to enter at night.
- Bathroom: This is basically a bad pension rather than an AirBnB. There's one single bathroom to share among 6 double or triple rooms (at least 12 people if the house is full).
- Walls: The walls are thin and poorly insulated, so you can hear the noise from inside the building.
- Door: The room door is bad and doesn't close properly (gaps between the door and its frame). The air and noise pass through it.
- Windows: Typical from Cambridge. Old and very poorly insulated.
- Temperature and Air Conditioner: It is very hot in there during the summer. The AC unit is extremely noisy to sleep.
- Outdoors noise: The apartment is next to Western Av. so you can hear the noise from there as well as the interior.
To conclude, I have stayed in many other apartments and none of them offered such a bad quality for that price. Not even in NYC or Paris. This would be a good deal if the price were far lower or if the room had a private bathroom.