The stay at Darryl’s place was okay. The apartment is big with tall ceiling, on the 2nd floor and has a lovely and cozy little balcony. You could reach the 125th Street in 5min by foot and there was the subway line 2 and 3 right around the corner. There is a Deli at the corner and some blocks down is a good coffee shop “the monkey cup” (highly recommended). The neighborhood was cool. If it was good weather, the people were really loud outside on the streets. The windows on the side of the street were leaky. You’ve could hear everything. This was not such a problem. BUT beside the size of the apartment, it was really dingy inside. When we arrived, there were some huge dead cockroaches on the floor. We wiped the whole apartment and saw how dirty it was (1). The sleeper in the living room was bent. Not comfortable at all. The bed-set like pillows and blanket were not washed for a while. It was smelly (2). In the bathroom wasn’t a toilet brush. And also, not cleaned for a while. We bought some cleaning agent for the bathtub (3). The WiFi router was on, but we never had a good WiFi “reception”. It seemed that the “right” router was on the first floor. We went downstairs to download something, that we watched afterwards upstairs. Really annoying. As we texted the problem to Darryl and asked him to come by, he replayed (a day later) that he checked with the cable company and they said everything is fine. That was it. The WiFi problem was not solved (4).
Until the end of our stay, we never knew that Darryl lives in the first apartment. On the last day, we were allowed to check out later, than how it was set in the contract (Check-out 12PM). Thanks for that. But we were asked to clean up the apartment as we found it. We did it, but why we’ve paid cleaning fee?
We know it’s not a hotel, but come on, don’t fleece people like that.