I have mixed feeling on our stay at at Lila's place and I must stress, based on the numerous reviews, it sounds like we just had a very rare slightly negative experience. The good far outweighs the bad, and the good is: The location (it's literally a 30 second walk to Parkside Metro which gives you links to Coney Island, and 25 mins into downtown Manhattan) Local amenities (a bunch of local cafes, bars, restaurants, and takeaways exist on Flatbush Avenue, all of great quality - I recommend Blessings Cafe for breakfast!) Decor (the apartment is really nicely decorated and homey, lots of pictures and rugs and the bedrooms have loads of books) Lila (she is a great host, provided clear instructions on how to get into flat and although we didn't see her much, she made sure that a leak in bathroom due to bad weather was fixed almost immediately) The bad, and again, based on the reviews I think were one offs were: Cleanliness (I really hope it was a one off, but the bedroom was really dusty and the underneath of the bed was so dusty and filled with cat hair, it didn't look like it'd been cleaned in the bedroom for quite a while. The rest of the apartment also suffered from dusty surfaces) The cats (I absolutely loved the cats themselves, they are so friendly and cute - but I think they have too much freedom in the place - at least 3 or 4 times in the stay, we saw the cats jumping up onto kitchen surfaces and licking water from the water tap, which was incredibly unhygienic and made get bottled water each day. Also, one of the cats loved our bedroom a little too much, and literally waits outside the bedroom - as soon as you open the door, they'll run in and one will always hide under the bed and doesn't come out. It's really frustrating having to spend 10-15 mins trying to coax them out) Linen (again, I hope this was a one off but the linen on our bed was really old and had clearly been attacked by the pets. The towels for bathroom had tons of holes in them and were quite old and not very nice) Noise (a review below mentioned this, but even we all doors and windows closed, the outside noise in mornings around 7-9am is horrendous, you won't be able to sleep in unless you have earplugs - it's not a bad thing for us, as we were up ready to explore around that time anyway and it was a good alarm clock, this is nothing to do with Lila or the apartment, but it should be noted if you're thinking of lying in!) Untrained dog (the dog was amazingly cute, but when we first arrived the dog had weed everywhere, and had done a poo on the floor - I don't think it was very well trained) As I said at the beginning,...