There are several reasons why we prefer staying at apartments to hotels and similar places.
1.Space - Private homes usually provide enough space for the whole family, featuring a bedroom and a living room. Aimee´s place offers large space for a family of 4, sofas in the living room fold down into comfortable beds, we found the mattresses great as we like a harder surface. Should you like to have a softer mattress, Aimee supplies extra softer ones that can be place over the original ones. Jarka and the younger son found the pull down Murphy bed also convenient.
2.Kitchen - We like to prepare breakfast and lunch/dinner ourselves from local ingredients. Aimee offers fully equipped kitchen incl. spices, you would not miss anything. There is a great C-town supermarket just around the corner (open daily from 7am until 10pm, even on bank holiday) with a wide range of fruit, vegetables, dairy, drinks, fresh fish etc. You will simply find everything!
3."Live like a local" - We found Astoria, Queens as perfect base for our week in NYC. You can feel like living as a local staying at Aimee´s place, surrounded by other houses, local shops, bars and pubs. We found Astoria a safe place, just 5mins walk to "W" or "N" trains going down to Manhattan, via 5th Avenue, Central Park, 42nd Street & Times Square - very convenient. For you staying a few days we recommend getting a week unlimited METRO card for just USD 33 which entitles you travel 24/7.
To sum up - we only had positive experience with Aimee and her place and would definitely recommend everyone to stay here. Far enough from crowded Manhattan, still reasonable 30mins ride to downtown. We posses to properties in Prague, Czech republic which we offer on a short term basis to travellers and thus know how important it is to feel like home when away from home. Based on our experience Aimee offers excellent place for your NYC retreat.