Please read this review till the end with Pros and “CONS”. It took me 1 week to write this review, and be fair to Jackie and to the upcoming TRAVELERS.
Pros: Friendly Jackie, Central located, checking in easy peasy.
Cons: Mice Droppings, Cockroaches smell, Steam heater’s noise at midnight (or morning around 03:00AM) like someone is hitting with a hammer on the piece of metal. Pillows were dark yellow to brown (after taking off the cover), luckily I brought my own pillows. Even towel had a yellow stain in the middle, my good I had my own. And all this for $90 per night. There was a hotel 2 blocks away for $105 per night including taxes.
Kitchen: I was afraid to step in. I don’t understand how he has positive reviews.
Details:
Jackie is very friendly, nice, and communicative. He did his best for the ambience of the apartment, i.e. designer look.
Location: Lower East Side, in the center of everything. I booked this accommodation because my business activities were 10-12 minutes walk from this place. I wanted to extend for 2 more months. But sleepless nights and all other cons prevented me from.
Room: Exactly as shown in pictures (room#1).
At the entrance of the building there was mice droppings all over the street (even by freezing temperatures 8•F / -13•C) and on the floor behind the fence toward the entrance of the building. Trash cans (not trash containers, but plastic buckets) were to blame for this and obviously mice. Mice were coming at night to eat out of those plastic trash buckets and left their droppings (shit) behind. My entry into the building looked like I was walking on the minefield. After entering the building’s door, there was a notice with legal articles and sections from building’s management that it is illegal to use this place for Airbnb guests, walking one flight up another notice from PEST CONTROL, once in a month (every first Saturday) there will be an exterminator coming for free. I was thinking would it get worse..?? 2nd floor entering into the apartment smell of cockroaches’ eggs.
In the apartment I didn’t find any mouse or cockroach but that smell didn’t let me sleep until midnight, and then the SHOW began with the hardest metallic Techno(lol). The building is very old (pre war) old steam heaters are built in, at night when heaters were popping up, they were making a noise as someone is hitting a metallic bars with a metallic hammer (not a rubber hammer). I spent 6 sleepless nights there. I was sleeping in the daytime in the basement of my office…. horrible. Check out time was 11:00 AM, a very friendly cleaning lady showed up at 10:35 AM and informed me that she’s here to clean. Anyhow I made it to check out at sharp 11:07 AM while she was cleaning other area of the apartment.
I’ll definitely NOT book this accommodation again, no matter how friendly and communicative Jackie was. I’ll better walk 2 blocks to the hotel and pay $15 more per night, and have clean pillows and towels and no noise and no smell of anything.
I ended up renting a room for next 2 months in a high-rise building on Wall St. with amenities i.e. Gym, Swimming Pool, Bar on 10th floor, Coffee & Bakery at the entrance, every 2nd floor Cinema Lounge with Cuddling Corners, Terrace with East River View on 23rd floor, Laundry room with Ping Pong, Billard, and Arcade, Banquet Hall and Grand Kitchen where you can cook for your friends with all the kitchen appliances. All this for $67 per night ! ! ! A LIGHT after DARKNESS.