First of all we have to say that the hosts (Shun & Akiko) are really friendly, quiet and helpful. For staying connected Shun borrowed us his Blackberry because the airline lost our complete baggage. Thanks for that!
Unfortunately we have nothing good to say about our room. It's true that the room needs a fresh painting as stated before. The pictures in this ad must be taken years ago or are simply photoshopped because the walls are more black of dirt as white as they seem on the pictures. The whole room was unbelievable dirty and seemed not beeing cleaned properly for ages. Hairs everywhere, crumbs on the floor and a lot of dust. Honestly it was a small shock when we entered the room for the first time. Before our trip to New York we read all of the ratings here and decided us for Shun, because nearly everyone stated how clean the apartement is. We are definitely not stuffy, but this is simply not true. The same for the bathroom. Dozens of hairs everywhere (floor, washbasin, shower) and a lot of mold on the shower curtain, the window and the bath tub. Honestly it was a kind of disgusting.
This was our first trip with airbnb and it was probably our last too. We have no explanation how 140+ ratings can differ from our impression so much. Nevertheless we had a great time in NYC and had to arrange with the whole situation at "home".

June 2013