The place is cheap, but it comes at a cost:
- I don’t think a woman traveling alone would feel safe here. This is a 1 BR apartment and there is a man sleeping in the living room. I felt like I was kicking him out of his bedroom while staying there. As a 6’2, 230lb man myself, I was uncomfortable - I can only imagine how someone half my size would feel.
- At one point he opened the door to the bedroom when I was laying there in my underwear on the bed. He wanted to "check if I was still there" midway into my multi-day stay.
- The shower does not drain. There was a day I could not shower because the man living there went first and there was 4 inches of dirty water in the tub.
- The listing mentions a gourmet chef is there to cook for you, but the man living there never once said anything about food or offered to cook me anything.
- The listing says it is WFH friendly but there is no desk. The room has a loveseat and a mattress on a floor with a single pillow, that is it.
- Even though there was a washer/dryer in the kitchen, the host would not let me use it. He did take my clothes and wash them in the building's washer/dryer for me - but it was a weird experience.
- When I arrived, the mattress was propped up against the wall and I had to put it on the floor myself. There is no bedframe.