A group of friends and I decided to stay at Harrison's apartment during the NY Marathon week. Unfortunately, a bit disappointed with our choice.
Let me start by saying, that Harrison has a great apartment, a really great space and extremely well located just on the edge of Soho and a 7 min walk from Tribeca. You can't be in a more convenient spot in NY.
Instead of enjoying our time, putting our bags in the apartment and hitting the town my husband and I had to do more problem management.
There was an overall cleanliness problem for us despite the cleaner spending several hours before our arrival, we had to clean again after her.
The kitchen wasn't clean, the fridge was dirty (old food inside), the sink was clogged and there was no dish-soap to clean the silverware/plates nor paper towels or dish-towels to dry them. (Sadly, no dishwasher).
The bathroom had two rolls of toilet paper. At the price of a hotel room, a lot of these aspects were extremely disappointing and pretty non-negotiable and should be provided.
The water pressure is very low, but I've signaled this to Harrison and hopefully it is a water pressure issue that can be fixed.
There was a strong odor (likely caused by pairs of shoes in the entrance). We bought candles to rid the smell.
The bedrooms had very little/ no space to unpack, majority or us lived out of suitcases. We understand how AirBnB works but we felt as if there was no room for us to feel at home.
It was a very cold week in NY and we couldn't understand how to turn the heat on in the apartment despite the help of Harrison's sister by phone.
There were no notes about about how to deal with the trash and as there were notes in the building about getting fined for placing trash outside, it piled up.
One of the rooms is very noisy (directly on Can Street).
Although we never had the chance to meet Harrison, as he was out of town, he was easy to communicate with. His sister was very nice and was there for check-in and check-out and was very accommodating letting us leave our bags at the apartment during our last day in NY due to red-eye flights.