The location was pretty good. Close to Restaurant Row and the Theaters. 10 min walk to a few different subway entrances. Jay is a good communicator and sent videos explaining where to find the lockbox and how to open it. One thing I didn’t realize before arriving is that you share a wall with an Irish pub. From Thursday to Sunday there was live music from there and several other bars close by. Bars close at 4am, so that’s when the music stops and you hear all of it, live or otherwise.
The lock on the apartment door is hard to figure out. The shower decides for itself what temperature it wants to be and it changes from scalding to freezing in a second.
The number on the building door is also different from the address listed, so it was confusing to get in.
The area is a bit sketchy at night, especially with all the bars. And with marijuana being legal, it smells everywhere. That’s not the host’s fault, but worth noting.
The apartment itself was fine. The kitchen is a lot smaller than it looks in the pictures. It smelled a bit musty and we heard clanging on the pipes all night long. We got used to the music, but the clanging (not sure if it was caused by wind or the heat running) was hard to sleep through.