This was our first Airbnb experience and it was fantastic for our two teenage kids, my wife and myself.

Josie was a perfect host, asking us beforehand what we like for breakfast and receiving us with some fresh bagels, coffee and fruit in the house/loft. She quickly ran us through the house´s ins and outs and gave us a good written guide of the area, galleries, shopping, groceries.

After that, the space did everything else. Perfectly located (on the edge of SOHO and Tribeca), ample and comfortable, sensitively set up with lots of objects to tell stories of a life lived there.

The only problem was the beds, because they were so nice, we didn't want to get up and enjoy the city, and stayed around longer than we should have, not leaving the apartment until mid morning after we had enjoyed a large breakfasts in the beautifully lit upper storey.

The area is perfect to explore Lower Manhattan, yet although it is in a seemingly rougher part of the city, with more bums than we have seen in some time, we felt perfectly safe, always a taxi at hand and a stone´s throw away from the subway, walking in and out of the place at all hours.

This loft is NY's glitzy antithesis, simple luxury. We enjoyed the time there, thank you Josie for sharing it.