**PLEASE READ: This bnb was extremely clean, but this did come at a cost for us as the place was really cold, the bed wasnt very comfortable/felt kinda cheap, and there was an extra step missing to check in before entering the code.
this is my second bnb experience so i’m unfamiliar with code locks. after a couple attempts of trying to open the door with the proper code, i realized i have to press an additional button before inserting the code. this was not included in the check in instructions.. this wasn’t even the real issue unfortunately.
There’s no thermostat in the unit, so we had to ask the host to turn on the heat. the response we got was that the heat was set to 74 and space heaters were available to use. the space was still cold, so we asked to turn it up, and had to have the host come in the unit before turning up the heat. i’m not sure why they felt they had to check the space before turning up the heat, but the host said that it didn’t feel cold to her and asked if it felt cold to me. i had to explain that the living room was cold given the space was so large. idk why i it needed to be checked, but didn’t feel the need to share that i’m anemic and also had a cold as a sufficient excuse to turn up the heat when i paid to be in there. they said they turned up the heat but the space wasn’t much warmer and we still had to use the small space heater, which i had to sit close to the other guest i was with to make sure we both felt some heat. i got tired of sitting so close, that i just wore my jacket whenever i left the bedroom since the space heater was only warming up that closed and smaller space effectively. the host reminded me to check out at 11am at 12:47am (during the working week) so it woke me up. i went to the restroom in the middle of the night after being woken up, and it was very cold in the common area. i felt the heater to feel that no heat was coming out, and at 12:47am i decided i didn’t want to contact the host to have to go through someone coming down in the unit again to inspect like i did the first time, so i decided to just avoid going in the common area as much as possible and just putting on my jacket whenever i had to leave and kept g the space heater in the bedroom. aside from that and the bed feeling cheap/uncomfortable the space was clean. i definitely don’t feel like i got value out of the $141 spent, to get heat during the winter time in nyc. i contacted airbnb and of course the host communicated that the heat was untouched all night. the cleaning fee was $80 (bulk of the cost) and the nightly fee was about half that so the host gave me $15 back because they felt the logical thing for me to do was communicate the lack of heat at 1am, i guess assuming that i was interested in having someone come back down to the unit to inspect the space.
in all, i would NOT recommend this place to anyone who is easily cold, or sick because it’s not sufficient. sucks because the place was so clean, but i wouldn’t say it was worth it.