The perfect experience: very clean (amazing shower- hot and powerful), very well situated, extremely generous host, very beautiful home. We feel already a bit nostalgic, loved the cats, the garden, the delicious teas and enormous toasts for breakfast. Also, not only will Laurie happily explain how to get around, but she will provide excellent addresses for food and good tips for cultural outtings. Full library of New York magazines, guides, as well as lots of flyers to guide you around this very nice area and generally NYC. She really does a lot to help you and it makes it so unique. So cool about the open flexible check-in check-out time: no arrival time plus we could leave our bags for the day of our departure and , and it helped a lot. Thank you for everything Laurie!