Ok so I’ll start with the positives. Location is good, easy to get to the subway and a quiet safe feeling neighbourhood. Check in was made really easy and host was helpful and made an effort to explain things. Towels included which was good and kitchen stocked with utensils and kitchenware which helped.
That being said, there were a few big problems. The property is not as described. The listing said ‘1 queen bed, 1 double bed, 1 sofa bed, 2 sofas’ and the pictures make it seem as though there are at least two double bedrooms. In reality there is one lovely bedroom with a large bed, perfect for one of the couples in my party. The other couple had to be on a double sofa bed in the living area, with no door on it for privacy and the smallest room just had a sofa. It was technically a sofa bed but it didn’t fit when it was pulled out. Not enough proper bedding for all the beds either. So 5 nights on a sofa with a blanket wasn’t great. Definitely not a suitable place for 5 adults.
Then the key issue, you can only enter using a code to collect the key from a box for the first door into the building and then use a code for the second door into the apartment. This would be fine but the other apartment is also used as an Airbnb and the other group took the key from the lock box with them out to dinner meaning our group was locked outside for 30 minutes. The host was helpful and communicative to sort this but simply just having a second key that we could take would fix this issue.
Perhaps if you are a smaller group or a couple, you could make this work but for 5 adults for 5 nights, it wasn’t good.