It didn’t go well. We had to climb over a weed smoking beggar to get into the apartment, and when we finally arrived, there was half eaten food in the fridge, other peoples’s shampoo bottles and products in the shower, plus a mat of hair covering the shower plughole. We thought it was metal corrosion at first, but it moved when my foot touched it; pretty grim. When i contacted the host he was nice and said it must have been an oversight, but it was clear the cleaner just does the absolute minimum and then just buggers off. We refused the offer of “another clean” and did it ourselves.
We went to bed, and the AC was impossible to turn off (it’s at head level) and then the party in the nightclub downstairs started; it went on until 2.30am. No sleep at all. We were furious, and the host needs to be honest about the nouse levels instead of saying “it’s a lively area”. We we’re shattered at the end of the stay.
Weed is now legal in NY for personal use, and the entire block reeked of it, especially in the evenings, which was horrible. Climbing over beggars to access the front door wasn’t fun either, and there was a different one each day.
As the host will no doubt reply to this review, two things to note -
1: I’m originally a Londoner, from Covent Garden, so i’m used to a bit of noise, but this was unacceptable.
2: I own a bed and breakfast and self catering apartments myself. I would be embarrassed to let out an apartment with food, detritus and previous guests hair in the plughole.