Traveled to New York for the first time with my best friend for our birthdays. the day we arrived, we were told as we were arriving at the airport that the room we had requested was going to still be rented out to the people who were already there. the host said he upgraded us to our own little apartment two stories above. we were excited, but I don't think the apartment was ready for vacancy .The apartment was nice, but the basic amenities fell short. the towels did not smell so fresh, and there were no napkins, paper towels , hand soap or dish soap in sight. there was only one bath towel and wash rag that my friend and I had to share. I contacted the host to see if he could get us some hand soap and more bath towels on the second day. he finally brought one extra towel , about five napkins ,and a almost fully used bottle of some soap I've never heard of, later that evening . my friend and I ended up going out and buying soap and other amenities . it was just a real inconvenience. the area we stayed in was okay. there is a group of people that hang out till about 4 in the morning right across the street. they were pretty loud, but thank God the AC was also pretty loud. I don't know if this day would have been different if we were put into the room in his home that we originally purchased. The third story apartment was especially hard to carry all of our luggage into. three narrow flights of stairs and two women who are not that physically strong. I did appreciate the area that we stayed in because it gave us an idea of what living there is like. we got to see the culture of it all, and that was memorable. I read a lot of reviews before I signed up to stay, and it seemed that everybody said that it was easy to get ahold of the host , I found that to be the exact opposite. he didn't reply very promptly to requests nor did he really give us any direction or insight. I am just being honest because I would want to know if I was traveling out of my element as well. I almost felt like I should have paid a little bit more money and got a hotel where I would have had fresh clean sheets , soap , fresh towels, prompt service and direction . This is in no way to slender Wayne. The guy seems like a cool dude, and he invited us to breakfast on Sunday morning but we were sleeping and weren't able to make it. I'm just giving my honest feedback because Airbnb requests us to review our stay so they can improve the experience. the subway station was about 2 blocks down. It was convenient to catch the subway from...