If you stay here, you will not have any privacy, quiet, or security. This place has no real door separating the space from the rest of the house, and this "door" cannot be locked. Upon our arrival and expression of concern, the host installed a keyhole latch but said it wouldn't work because there's no stud in the wall--as shown by the numerous patched holes around the keyhole latch, where previous versions had been ripped from the wall. The "door" has wide spaces all around it so anyone could see through it from the upstairs, and noise carries excessively from the upstairs down to the space. The space is dark, being in a basement, and requires walking down a very long and steep flight of stairs to get to it. It is very loud. In addition to the constant stepping and shuffling and voices and baby crying from the four to five floors above the space, there is a drainage pipe that runs right next to the headboard of the bed so you will hear the toilet flush all night long as you try to sleep. The host is in a band so he came home at 1:30 or 2 in the morning the first few nights, igniting a host of crazy noises, including the loudest water heater imaginable, which has the unfortunate location of being near the foot of the bed in this space. So many people must have been staying in the house because that water heater was going off all through the night and morning. So if you stay here, you will not sleep because of all the noise, you also will not feel like you have any privacy, quiet, or security. Needless to say, we cut our stay short.