Summary: Met our needs though better for short stay of 3-4 days
Positives:
+ Good location in West Village
+ VERY quiet on back of building--no noise at all from street or neighbours
+ Very nice large king bed and very comfortable firm mattress
+ Very accessible and friendly host Jacob--our flight arrived 4 hours late after midnight and he uncomplainingly stayed up waiting for us. Complimentary bottle of chilled white wine awaiting us was nice touch.
+ Good shower pressure and temperature
+ Good and quick communication
+ Separate bedroom and living room with sofa bed
+ Nice large screen TV (though we only used it once)
Negatives:
- The place is really a bachelor pad and so is not very well equipped. Chairs arms are broken, odd sets of mismatched and incomplete utensils (too few mugs or cups), microwave located on top of stove and needs to be moved around if you want to use the stove, kitchen very minimally equipped.
- Window unit A/C in bedroom cools well but is loud and right near head of bed, so wasn't useable at night for us.
- Since the apartment is really in use by the owner when it is not occupied, there is little real space for guest in the closets or drawers or even counter tops.
- Very little natural light, so the place is somewhat dark (the flip side of being quiet, I guess).
- Sofa bed was OK for a child, but would not be comfortable for an adult.
The positives compensated for the negatives and it was a good place overall for us, though probably just for a few days.