This has been our most disappointing AirBnB experience. While the descriptions have since been updated, at the time we booked we were led to expect a self-contained studio. It is not. It is a bedroom that opens onto a kitchen that is the passageway to two upstairs units. The bathroom is at one end of the kitchen and the shower at the other. As others have noted, the bathroom is so small that you cannot sit square on the toilet.
The price is misleading: as others have mentioned it costs over $200 per night.
Sleeping was a challenge. The bed is a full size, not a queen. The bedroom windows don’t block out much street noise, which also leaks in through the gaps around the air conditioning units. One of which works. We were woken the first night at about 4:00am by heavy traffic through the kitchen. Soon after the apartment filled with the smell of marijuana. On the second night a small group laughed and talked loudly in the kitchen from around 2:00am.
We went to New York to see the sights, not to spend time tracking down a drug-store so that we could buy toilet paper. One roll between two people for four nights just isn’t enough.
On the bright side, it’s close to some nice cafes and bars and a ten minute walk to the Metro. But if we return to New York city we’ll be looking for a real self-contained studio that doesn’t serve as an access way to other apartments.