My partner and I stayed one week in Chao’s place end of April 2016.

Pros
- We enjoyed our privacy as we saw our host only the day of the arrival and one time after that for 5 minutes.
- The room was spacious and had an electrical heater that worked pretty well. The private bathroom is definitely a plus!
- The cat Frank is very cute and loves to be cuddled.
- The apartment was clean and as shown in the pictures.

Cons:
- You have to walk 15 minutes to the nearest subway station.
- Not a very quiet room, you can hear all the steps from the tenants upstairs (sometimes early in the morning or late at night) they must have an old wooden flooring so that you can hear everything. However most of the time we were too tired to care.
- The view from the room is not very nice as it is some kind of garbage dump and can be sometimes noisy (some wood cutting… in our first morning) but got quieter the rest of our stay. The neighborhood can feel sketchy but we did not have any problems my partner and I while we stay there, even coming back late at night.
- Also, a proper blanket or quilt is missing in this bedroom, because it gets a bit chilly at night and even though we asked for an extra blanket (which was quickly provided) it was very thin and not warm at all, so that I had to sleep with a sweater on, and sometimes we would leave the heater on part of night, which is a bit of a waste of energy but I can’t personally stand to be cold at night 
- The key to the building was not working properly so that we got a bit stressed of not being able to access the apartment, trying for 10 minutes to turn the key in the lock but Chao eventually changed it (on the last day) so it should not be a problem for the next airbnb people.

Chao was sometimes hard to get in touch with, and often replied in a very few words, so that it was not always easy to communicate, but he wasn’t unfriendly though. If you wish to exchange with your host, get to know the culture… you won’t get that in Chao’s place BUT if you want to have your privacy, like you would in a hotel, come and go as you wish (for a cheaper price) then Chao’s place is very good value!