You get what you pay for, as the other reviews mentioned. Here's what you get:
Travel time: >40min to Manhattan (bus + blue line)
Pros:
- Cheap
- The host is polite, allowed us to stay until 12pm instead of 10am for checkout
Cons:
- Not reliable for cleaning. We planned to arrive at 3pm (check-in 10am). However, the host warned us that cleaning wouldn't be done until 5pm so we kindly agreed to wait. Ultimately, we had to wait until 6:30pm to get a clean room - 7h30 after check-in time...
- Even after cleaning, the common areas and our room weren't clean (the cleaning was done in 15min, forgot under the bed,...)
- Room had a strong smell of cigarette
- No toilet paper left
- No trash in room, bathroom trash was full
- Shower was moderately clean
- There's someone sleeping in the living room (quite disturbing)
- The mattress had the plastic wrapping around it, making a lot of noise (quite bewildering)
The host apologized but we aren't the only ones to make these comments in reviews