I am still seething from an overall negative experience with both the host and AirBnB but I will do my best to give an objective and constructive review of Besinfe's place. A) I will start with the good: The location is nice. The neighborhood is vibrant. For drivers, it appears that parking is not too bad by New York standards. We were able to find street parking though it was a holiday so I think YMMV. B) The bad: 1) Lack of communication. a) No reply at the time of original booking despite mentioning that I was bringing a dog. The listing mentions a dog fee and the host requiring dog approval. One would think that this would warrant some reply from the host. b) No reply two weeks from arrival when I sent a message with a reminder about the dog. At this stage we were past the strict cancelation period with no indication about what the fees would be. c) No reply for several hours to a message that I sent the morning of the day before arrival - also no email with check-in instructions. I only got a call several hours later in the evening. Mind you, I am in a national park with spotty service and it is not always easy to take a call. This is unacceptable and also it is good to have a paper trail of correspondences. d) Again, the host did not communicate at any time prior to the day before. The day of arrival my wife had an accident that required a trip to the ER and late arrival. That was when Besinfe told me about the dollar amount ($40) that he charges for people arriving between 8 and 10PM. Fees like this should be communicated clearly in the profile or at the very least known before the end of the cancelation period. It was too late to make alternative plans and we had no choice but to go along with the fees. 2) Cleanliness - The room was in the bottom quartile of the places I have stayed through AirBnB. When factoring the size of the cleaning fee in, it is most likely the worst I have experienced in terms of cleanliness/value ratio. The floor was dirty which you would very clearly notice upon taking off shoes as we did. Bending down, the dust and grit were noticeable to me. My wife who has lasik-corrected vision could see that the floor was dirty without bending over. The bedsheets and the pillow case were obviously not laundered. We found blond hairs from presumably a prior female guest. There was no scent that suggested laundering. The host claimed that the place was cleaned and the sheets were laundered. Maybe he had an off day and the accommodations are usually better. I don't know, however, for a $50 cleaning fee for a space of under 100 sq ft I expect the A game and not a C-. 3) House rules These should be communicated prior to arrival. Notably, the fact that he doesn't allow guests to leave things like chargers or the air conditioning unit plugged in while not in. The host told us that this was due to a fire caused by a guy having his phone charger plugged in. I don't see how that would be an issue for the AC unit in the room. For us this was a problem as the primary reason be found Besinfe was due to the fact that the listing allowed dogs. We wanted to leave our dog in the room at times while out at places where we could not bring her. Without temperature control, we had no guarantee of my dog's safety. 4) Comfort - The mattress is of very low quality, which is fine for a budget accommodation. It is noticeable for couples because of how the sides sag. The two of us are not heavy people. We are average-height people of normal-weight BMI and the mattress was not supportive of us. C) The Ugly: 1)) Under the table fees - Remember those fees that I mentioned? He demanded cash payment under the laughable the pretense that it "saves the guests money." The fees are made-up by the host and if he wanted to save the guest money he wouldn't charge them. We were not told the dollar amount of the fees until right before arrival when we had no real chance to make alternative accommodations. Additionally, it was weeks after the end of the cancelation period. The mistake I made was in paying him - this situation had never occurred in my previous AirBnB experiences and I did not know that I was supposed to phone AirBnB and not pay such fees. If it were not 10PM and I were not exhausted and frankly afraid of not having accommodations for the night I would have done so. I refused to pay him in cash for these fees and instead sent him a payment through a widely-used social payment service that gets censored. He told me not to write airbnb in the tag line for the payment but I did anyways. Upon finding out that I did, he knocked on the door of our room and was visibly upset with me for doing so, saying it could get him in trouble with AirBnB. He did not threaten us, I want to be clear about that, but I found that to be extremely annoying as we were getting ready to sleep after a 9 hour drive following a four hour hospital visit. 2) Take a look at Basinfe's reviews. There are no doubt many good ones but there are many many poor reviews that are consistent with what I have said in this review. Take a look at his personal replies to each of the reviews and complete inability to take responsibility. That is not the mark of a good host. 3) We were exhausted and stayed the first night but left early...