Florin is a great host: prompt, responsive and efficient, with a place that is first-rate: spacious, modern, clean and very well appointed.
Other guests have complained about noise coming from upstairs. I found this truly minor. It's mostly the happy pitter-patter of little feet. But little feet march to school during the day and retire early at night. Not a problem really.
Other visitors have complained about the bed. If you are like me, who can sleep soundly on a rock, you’ll find nothing to complain here. If, however, you are like my wife, who is picky, picky, picky about mattresses, you’ll rate the bed uncomfortable or worse.
Middle Village is a lovely neighborhood, more like a small town or a suburban area. There’s no subway and that makes transportation more challenging for those without a car, but it spares the neighborhood the seediness that can be found near the subway in areas of the city that have it.
There’s an express bus to Manhattan a couple of blocks away, but it only runs M-F from 6:00 a.m. to 8:30 am and from 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm. There are local buses at other times. Bus Q38 is very useful. Going East on Eliot Ave., it will run into a couple of subway lines at its 92nd St. stop. Going West, it’ll run into the M line at its Metro Av El Station.