A decent place to stay in the College Point area (a very safe region in Queens). A few mins walk from buses that take you directly to Flushing Main Street (also have train stations for the 7 train to go to Manhattan or other areas in Queens).
If you’re wondering whether you should book this Airbnb or not, hope this review will help you decide and give you the exact insights that you’re looking for. You’re welcome! (^_^)
Pros of this Airbnb:
- A very spacious and clean Airbnb
- You will get a warm introduction from the host right before you check-in
- You get the following private areas to yourself: A bedroom, a bathroom, a mini hallway, and a small lounge with a dedicated workspace/area to eat
- They offer shampoo + conditioner combined (hair only) and a hand/body soap bars (all of those products are eco-friendly and made of natural ingredients)
- A self check-in Airbnb
- Two reusable glass and two mini plates provided during our stay
- The host didn’t bother us during the entirety of our stay.
- A camera is located in the front door area (where you first enter the house) only instead of the inside so it won’t feel like you’re being watched all the time
- A 2-3 minutes away from the Q65 bus that takes you directly to Flushing Main Street (You can transfer to the 7 train subway from there to goto Manhattan or other regions in Queens)
- A 5-6 minutes walk to the nearest Queens Public library and a shopping district filled with mouth-watering Colombian and Chinese food. (all the other buses that goes to other areas of Queens or Flushing Main street are also located on the shopping district street)
Cons of this Airbnb:
- This Airbnb’s host Jorge was not very transparent about certain things or features in his listing or communication. He’s only responsive during the very beginning of our stay and during the very last day of our stay. We asked him for extra towels two nights before our last day and he responded back during the last day of our stay and didn’t even bother to accommodate us.
- No body wash nor toothpaste provided (they only have shampoo + conditioner which is really only for the hair, but technically you can use the soap bar (for the body) they provided but if you’re a liquid body wash soap like me -- best if you bring your own body wash)
- No liquid hand soap provided. In place of that, you will have a thin white eco-soap bar to wash your hand and body with
- The toilet paper roll is completely broken so you will have to hold your toilet paper roll with one hand while doing your bathroom business with the other hand
- No hair dryer
- No kitchen
- Would appreciate it if they had more tissues/napkins and reusable utensils provided. They only gave us 3-4 paper towels with two sets of one-time use utensils which kind of sucks as we had to eat in at the Airbnb for more than 95% of our stay.
- The circulation in this Airbnb was not that great as the heat was not evenly circulated. There was practically no heat at all as whenever we enter, it’s always so cold on the inside. The heat can only be felt if you were right next to the house heater. The small room heater was hidden in the corner of the bedroom closet instead of in a visible area in the front, so that was quite inconvenient. It would be nice if he had left us a note regarding the poor heat distribution, but clearly he didn’t bother.
- Parking is definitely not convenient especially if you have a car and traffic jams happens quite often as the streets are a bit narrow around this area (especially on the street where the shopping district was located in)
- The staircase is steep before you reach the house so do be careful. The front door light doesn’t always shine until you reach the top of the staircase which could be an inconvenience especially at night.
- The front entrance door (on the very outside) with the passcode was hard to open more than half of the time as it was quite old so we would be standing out there for more than 3-5 mins just trying to figure out why the door wouldn’t open for us…
- There is also an active construction site going on right across the street so it gets very loud during the day starting at 8 am. It sucks because the bedroom is right by the front door where it’s facing directly at the construction site. (Best not to book during the weekday to avoid the construction noise as the construction area seems to just started working so it looks like they won’t be done till after a year or 2.)
- The listing didn’t specify this but the bedroom was located right by the front door area and people can literally hear everything from your bedroom once they approach the front door. Would be nice if the AC unit was wrapped, but since the host didn’t bother, the cold air just kept leaking in like that while heat was poorly distributed.
- The front door entrance area light kept going on and off and kept shining through our window even though the curtain is closed so we couldn’t even sleep properly at night
Hope the host Jorge is able to make future accommodations and upgrades/fixing for his Airbnb. It’s a subpar Airbnb per se for an ok price. Thanks! :)