My two friends and I lived in this house for the Christmas holiday this year~
Me (Jinwen) : Firstly, Dolores and her family they are very responsible for everything. That’s very good. And house is very clean. And there is a super good grocery market besides the house. But Dolores want me to contact her via WhatsApp rather than Airbnb and it’s hard to fall asleep because I can always hear the water ticking when I sleep at night. In addition, the last day we forgot about the check out time. Dolores texted me about that we should check out immediately because the cleaning lady is here.We felt very sorry about that. One of my friend she had a stomachache so she was at the house. She said she didn’t see the cleaning lady. And we plan to texted Dolores and wanted to tell her my friend Ying will take our luggage out immediately and will check out now. She texted me the cleaning lady is leaving. We have to pay 50 dollars for her. Finally we paid 75 dollars for the late check out. I think it will be better if we have a better communication on this issue. And we are always following the very long rules on the dining-table. It let me feel so tired.
Ying:Firstly, NOT RECOMMENDED !
The room is a half basement house, which means there’s no sunlight in the daytime, so you can smell musty when you get into the house. Also it’s not so warm at night that we need to cover ourselves with our jackets.
And we can hardly fall asleep at night cause there were too much noise ( such as the noise of footsteps, water drops,which kinda horrifying in the midnight and the screaming and singing ) from upstairs where the the owner family lives.That’s to say, the soundproof is really bad.
Besides, the house is really far from subway station(15 min walk), the schedule of bus is really unstable, so sometimes you need to walk home from subway station in the midnight, which is really not safe in Brooklyn.
I will never choose this house again. It’s NO good.
Julie: As Dolores' s house is a half basement house, it was too cold to fall asleep at night. I had to cover my down jacket over the thin quilt. She is a responsible host in the Airbnb, her family live upstairs and helped us to solve this problem three days later. Besides, maybe it's the holiday time, we can hear the sound of steps and water drops every night. And in the new year eve, the noise of scream and loudly shout was so annoying that I was hard to sleep even it was already 12:30AM. Besides I don't know why, staying in the house is hard to keep warm. The heater seems not work well. And the neighbor is not safe enough. One day night around 9PM when we came back during the days we lived here, we saw a strange homeless man wearing different shoes with bizzar walking posture walking towards us at the corner of the house outside. That was terrifying! I don't know if it's normal in Brooklyn or in NY, as this is my first time in NY. But we were SOO scared!!! In a word, this is a clean, hot-water provided, carbage bag not enough provided, a little cold house. I am sure that I will be back in NYC, but I will not live back here next time .