So this review comes with mixed feelings. The inside of this apartment is quaint & very clean. It’s properly stocked with towels and things you’ll need for you your stay. Lily is very communicative and helpful. It’s close to the Las Vegas strip and fine in many respects. But the internal issues are numerous. They aren’t deal breakers by themselves but combined all together they’re definitely worth noting…
Cons:
-The bed in the main room is too big and sits in front of about half the closet. It’s also super hard. It’s like a thin foam pad was placed on top of a stack of lumber. I tossed and turned all night. If my son wasn’t already sleeping on the couch I would have moved there to try and sleep.
-I couldn’t get the main bedroom window to close all the way at the bottom because it’s held in place by several layers of tape.
-Many of the fixtures are worn and the desk in the main room has a lot of worn spots with strange stuffed animals / figurines on the shelves.
-The second bedroom has a normal bed and another bed laying directly on the floor with fitted sheets.
-The decor is a bit odd.
-The bathroom is small yet functional but the seam on the wall seems to be either moldy, dirty or in need of paint.
-One side of the bathroom vent fan is also hanging down from the ceiling.
-Another important note is the hot/cold dials in the shower are backwards. Red is cold. Blue is hot. When I asked about this Lily referred me to a caption under one of the pics on the ad. Not sure many people will catch that. My suggestion is to fix it or leave a note somewhere.
-The popcorn ceiling is cracking near the hallway AC return.
-The oven registers a “door” error all the time.
-The oven vent is covered in tin foil (yes, tin foil).
-The main concern we had is the location. We turned down the street for the first time and were greeted by a box truck covered in graffiti, bars on the windows of most apartments and broken down vehicles. There was an abandoned truck up on jacks in the parking lot of the rental our entire stay.
-One of the women in our group stayed back home one night by herself to rest and panicked a bit with the 2 helicopters with search lights hovering over head for about a half hour. She warned us to keep an eye out for anything suspicious.
-I genuinely looked for a different place to park our car for the night with no luck. Multiple car alarms went off both nights we were there having my wife and I waking up to check on our vehicle at 2am.
Pros:
-Check in was easy.
-The host communicated well.
-Lily was helpful answered questions, even later in the evening.
-The place is really clean.
-It’s near the strip and around a lot of fast food, gas, shopping, theaters, stadium, etc.
-When I messaged Lily, she said she is only on-site sometimes. She asked if there were any issues and, to her credit, she advised she would immediately call a repairman to address them when I sent her the pics of some things described above.
Conclusion:
I’m not sure I can recommend this place to just anyone. I don’t know that I’d bring any young kids here or recommend any ladies stay here by themselves. If you need a quick spot close to the strip to crash but not spend a lot of time at the apartment, don’t have a rental car, etc. then this might work. One last thing… the cleaning fees are pretty high in general with AirBnB but on this visit they were nearly 30% of our overall cost so you may want to re-work your numbers on that hotel one more time.
I’m bumping it up 3 stars (mainly because of Lily’s positive responsiveness and commitment to do the repairs) knowing it’s closer to 2.5 stars as-is but has 3.5 - 4 star future potential.