The place is located in one of the busiest streets of West Village above a Chinese noodles and bubble tea cafe with string of vape and tattoo shops along the street.
To access the property we had to push through bunch of people sitting on the steps by the front door.
It was late in the evening, so a bit uncomfortable to be there with the luggage and branded hand bags (that I got many compliments on from the passers by :-)
Once we managed to get the key out of the safe box (another challenge when it was too dark to see the code numbers on the lock), we realised that the flat was 2 flights of stairs hike and we had 2 very heavy suitcases that we had to drag up.
By the time we got up to the flat we were sweating and exhausted, but still happy to be in the heart of NY. Only to find out that the lights (except one in the entry hall) do not work in the entire flat. The place was freezing too. Furniture is stained and dated. TV wasn’t hooked up.
The host did not respond until the next day (