Overall, you get what you pay for. There’s good bad and ugly about this stay.
I’ll start with the good; amazing central manhattan location with walkable distance to times square, macys and the subway. The neighbourhood wasn’t too rough other than the general characters you expect from a large city. The apartment itself looks nice enough, the open brick was nice and the memory foam bed was comfortable. The apartment building itself is relatively nice for the price as well. Theres a microwave and a hotplate as well as provided cutlery and pots. The ac in the room worked well and kept the place cool.
The bad: The apartment was advertised with a sink, this is NOT the case at all. Filling up the kettle meant walking to the shared bathroom down the hall and using the water there (its hard to fit the kettle in the sinks there, takes some work). This also meant that it was impossible to wash dishes.
The ugly; The provided cutlery was dirty, with strange crumbs in the holder and the fridge didn’t work well, barely kept anything cool. The shared showers were clean about half the time, but the stalls themselves dont have hangers so its difficult to keep your clothes dry. Definitely bring flip flops and watch out for roaches. The AC although functional, made a very strange whining noise that I preferred to actually turn off at night in favour of the street noise.
In terms of the airbnb, its great for the money and you wont spend much time there anyway, you pay for location. Just be prepared for these things.