Features-
* Central Location at Manhattan besides the Korea town, good food, good people, good food. Few minutes to Times Square and few steps to subway. * * Extra bathrooms available in the hallway and it’s free and easy to use. It’s super clean.
* This is a single room (studio) with 3 beds, good enough for 5 people for sleeping purposes only. Enough kitchen culinary for cooking snacks and serving with dishwashing liquid provided.
* Security personnel available 24 x 7
Areas of improvement-
1. Cleaning of dustbins and room is provided on request basis.
2. Toiletries are provided upon requests (Though it was just for our case, Julia provides it before check-in)
3. Rooms are tiny and connected to each other. Make sure to mute yourself when making love, this is not a sound proof room and you might hear such sounds from neighbors; day & night.
4. Bathroom and Kitchen sinks nobs are fragile, if broken put them back and use it for purpose.
5. Electric gas stove, one works and not the other. In our case, none worked for the day at checkout and we didn’t bother informing Julia about this. If informed, I am sure she will do her best to make that working as she did for bathroom nobs.
6. Be very careful with one single bed, there are two iron rods hanging beside your bed. You need to squeeze in to get into your bed and pull out yourself before you actually wake up and sit on bed.
7. AC is small enough to cool the room in few hours with 5 peoples. And be mindful of using electric gas as there are no windows or exhaust in the room. We opened the gate and tried to use the kitchen.
8. Blankets are typically for winters and linens are not so comfy and unevenly tucked. Lighter blankets would be great.
9. Soaps and shampoos provided, toothpaste is something that should be made available.
10. Not enough charging ports for 5 people charging their phones or laptops. Extension cords would be helpful.
Overall- Julia is a good host and she does everything to make it a 5 star stay. This is basically a expectation vs reality challenge. I enjoyed staying at Julia’s place at the center location of Manhattan and might get to stay back at her place as my second option.