I want to first say, my stay was peaceful and the apartment was super super clean and nicely decorated. Just as the picture shows.
However here are your CONS: This home is a 3 level brown stone, and the listing is on the upper 3rd level. It’s not an entire home to yourself. It’s an apartment inside the brown stone. We were a party of 7, one family of 4 and a family of 3. Four adults and 3 children. When we entered there’s a stair case immediately In front of you going up and there were closed doors to the right. We didn’t go up the stairs right away because we missed that small print in the listing. The entry & foyer was so nice and clean that we were excited to see the rest of the “ENTIRE” space as “LISTED” So we immediately began opening the doors to check out the home. We were shocked to find ppl inside the rooms, who gave us crazy looks and said absolutely nothing when we opened the doors. My friends and I apologized and closed the doors back! We were a bit thrown off and lost! (The ppl in the rooms could’ve said something, Hi, hello, bye, anything!) So we went back to the front entry into the foyer (in front of the stairs) and I opened the app to read the listing again to make sure I did book an space that said “ENTIRE” place to our selves and to also make sure I didn’t miss, anything. At the very bottom of the listing on the read more tab, It said upstairs and that’s all. Ok so we went up stairs. We didn’t know there would be ppl entering the same door as us (in & out) and (knocking on the front door) and living or being there while we were there. I always book “entire place” so my family can be comfortable with just us and the kids can be kids without getting yelled at for jumping or stomping or simply playing… Once up stairs it’s pretty much like being on the 2nd floor of your home, with 4 bedrooms and any one from downstairs ( the ppl behind the bedroom doors) can access these 4 upper bedrooms at any time. So there is no additional door to separate the middle level of the brown stone from the top level. If someone walked into the main door entry of the home, they can see directly upstairs into the Airbnb apartment. This is not a home to your self... once upstairs only one room had a lock and key to the bedroom door. The other 3 bedrooms had knobs with key holes but NO KEY… If I have to stay here I should have a key to each room so I can lock them if I leave. But that wasn’t the case. We were only here one night, and since I’m a New Yorker I didn’t worry much. But my friend and her husband are not from NY and are not accustomed; and has never been inside a brown stone and we’re very uncomfortable with this situation. It was getting late, the kids were hungry, so I assured my friend everything would be ok and we would be safe… (I was going by faith and prayers at this point)…. We locked our 7 suit case roller bags into the one room that had a key. We left to go eat and when we returned it was roughly 11pm and this was a Monday. With that being said when we entered the home, we tried to be as quiet as possible so we wouldn’t awake anyone as we walked up the stairs. Once up stairs the kids took off there shoes and began to be children ( 2 yrs, 7yrs & 11yrs old)… We had to tell them no running or jumping because it may disturb them downstairs or wake them up. This was hard to keep them still and even hard for our husbands who have heavy feet and a hard walk on hard wood floors… So instead of lounging before bed or watching movies, we immediately bathed and went to bed. Which sucked………… If you can get pass that and look on the bright side of the “APARTMENT” being Spotless, Super Clean, Nicely Decorated, & New renovated, then book this stay. It was good for the night, worth the money and I would stay here again, if i needed a last minute booking. Oh, I would also recommend at least one or 2 bottles of water being left in the refrigerator, I had to dilute my 2yr old juice with faucet water. (Water machine on the frig didn’t work) and We hadn’t noticed this before leaving or else we would’ve brought some bottle waters back for the night.