The good: location is convenient. 1 block from subway and Central Park.
The bed is comfortable and fine, as long as you don’t mind climbing up a ladder.
The bad:
- check-in/out is really not convenient at all. Key pick-up is 1/2 mile from the apartment. Key pick-up code didn’t work (on both check-in and check-out.
- sheets had not been washed. Hair and crumbs in bed. The host came up with the solution of having me sleep in another bed in the hallway for one night and moving me back to the bed the next day after cleaner had come to change the sheets.
- you sleep only about 10 feet from another bed, just the other side of a curtain. This meant listening to two people snoring (etc.) for 3 of the 4 nights. And when you go to the bathroom you have to walk right past the other people sleeping, as the other bed is in the hallway.
- bathroom access is restricted in the mornings on weekdays.
- very little light, the only window looks directly out into another apartment. This is definitely not a place to hang out. You go there to sleep. Period.
Bottom line: if you need cheap lodging in NYC, this is an option. And if you go in with low expectations (think: youth hostel), you will be fine.
An apology from the hostess would have gone a long way to improving the overall stay. An apology for the dirty sheets. Or for the check-in and our problems. Instead I had the impression I was inconveniencing her! Definitely room for improvement.