The stay at Peter’s was bitter sweet.
We arrived and Elo, his wife was very welcoming, she had even bought us goodies ( soaps, tooth brushes, sponges). A few days later the key broke in the hallway lock and we informed Peter of what had happened. He wasn’t helpful at all and was very ironic to us. We tried to explain what had happened ( we know it was a faulty key as we saw another broken key stuck with tape on top of the door) and Peter started accusing us and demoted us in a very ugly way.
We stood still and we were shocked when we read his message. We tried to explain what had happened and when he realized that key number 2 was the key of the hallway and not the key of the apartment he said he would come over and give us and new one. Yes, in the end he resolved the issue but he put us in a very uncomfortable situation. He was ironic, rude and agressive and told us that he was very busy and that we were going to pay for the new lock because it was our fault. Only he didn’t realize that the key was defective and not the lock.
The thing that we didn’t know until the last day of our stay is that the hallway door was used by pretty much everyone in the building. If we knew that from the beginning we wouldn’t have insisted about the insecurity we felt in the apartment. It’s a really typical American lock that can be broken easily by anyone. We also had some issues with the heating, it was either too warm, either too cold. Anyone in the building can change the temperature. After all that had happened with Peter we didn’t even want to get in touch with him to resolve the issue so we waited, freezing cold until someone fixed it. We had problems taking out the trash, since there are no bins for that purpose and we were told to be very careful since there is a 100 dollar fine if you take out your home trash and throw it away in a public bin. When we left, it was noon so we couldn’t take the garbage out and had to leave it in the apartment unfortunately.
We stayed there for 14 days so overall it was really hard having to live in this apartment.
Elo, on the other hand was nice and even told us to take our time to check out.
Overall the apartment was just ok for a sleep but nothing more, even the bathroom was disgusting. New York City was awesome but our stay at Peter’s was not good at all and that is why I wouldn’t recommend it.