This was my first Airbnb experience!!So, here is a long, detailed review:
Stayed one night with my boyfriend here, hosted by the awesome Steev! The stairs leading up to the 5th floor of the building might make you wonder if you're in the right place, but he inside of the Hart House is obviously well taken care of. Everything is labeled well(garbage, recycling, linens closet, soap cabinet, etc.), and the space is both clean and unique. You get keys to the building, the Hart House and for your own room. The lock on our door was basically useless, Steev mentioned something about him needing to replace it and assured us our stuff would be safe reguardless, though we didn't need to actually leave anything in the room while we were gone, i thimk it would have indeed been safe.
The doors to this room are completely frosted glass sliding doors. I couldn't tell by the photos before booking and I was a little worried when I got there and discovered this, simce I thought we weren't going to have much privacy...it turned out to be just fine, you can barely see blurred shadows through it! *whew* One of the windows actually had a curtain on it when we were there, which was good.
There's an AC unit in the window and ceiling fan, the only light in the room that seemed to work was a small lamp perched on the windowsill. The sun shines beautifully into this room in the morning by the way!
Bed was confortable and the sheets and pillows cases has been washed and were hanging to dry when we checked in earlier. When we got back later on everyrhing was there waiting for us! Much to my suprise the sheets and pillows didn't smell like anything at all, not another person or any sort of detergent, which i loved, made me feel right at home!
Great view of the street from the roof by thw way, it was relaxing to people watch for a bit later that night.
Free WiFi!
Steev was a great host, very accommodating, kind and thorough. He invited us to come back some time if we ever wanted to do an art piece or hang out in the city. I loved the location of this place too, not as noisy as most places in the city, but it also had a vibrant life of it's own!
My only complaints really:
-Though they had lots of conditionor and shampoo, didn't have body wash(steev let us use his personal one since he didnt have any in the cabniet.
-Wish they had more towels/they were in better condition.
-Would have been nice to have a blanket; we were told that quilts were in the cabniet, but there weren't any when we looked.
-Room smells like cigars of you open the window due to the cigar shop downstairs.