The stay was ok, but here some details:
Pros:
- location of the apartment is great, just about 10 min walk from the subway Grand central
- almost no noise from the outside, so you will not be disturbed in the night by the traffic
- easy to communicate with the host, very reactive to any of our message, even if we didn’t meet him
- They left us a double air mattress, very comfortable and a hair dryer. Bed is very comfortable as well.
Cons
- the place is smaller than we expected. The entire place it is about +-30m2. It is a studio with an open small kitchen, double bed, couch (single and double), TV station and the bathroom - which is small but enough
- there was dust on every surface (although kitchen was clean)
- the heater couldn’t be switched off and it was extremely hot, we had the windows open all the time (while cold weather in NY about 9•C / 46•F). It was very difficult to sleep with the heat
- the last day we found a cockroach in the bathroom, probably due to the start of the “heating season”. The host told us that the building sprays every month, so this shouldn’t be an issue for future stays.