This apartment is brilliant, I’m so pleased we booked it.
The first thing I’d say is listen to robin (the host)’s advice. Everything she said was 100% correct. She knows her local area very well.
We spent a week in NYC, our first piece of advice would be buy a 7day no restriction travel card for the subway ($33 per person) we bought one on day 3 but wished we’d known how much we’d use it. We travelled up and down manhattan many times and would have saved ourselves a fortune!
The apartment is so well stocked, washer dryer was perfect, dishwasher was fine, fridge was massive and was perfectly sized for 6 of us for the week.
My mother and father in law used the bedroom at the front of the apartment (next to the TV) and one of the bathrooms, my 16 year old nephew used one twin room (just off the main bedroom) my 14 year old stepson used the other twin room and my partner and I used the big room. There was loads of room, drawers in each bedroom and hanging space in the closets.
The iron and ironing board were used a couple of times
We used the subway on 125th street (about a 10 minute walk) . As Robin explains in her handy book of local knowledge (in the kitchen) this station is very busy with ‘interesting’ folk...mainly homeless people, some with addictions. As robin explains you can use the 116th street station (about 5-6 minutes walk) which is fine and no where near as busy but I can honestly say that we didn’t ever feel threatened at 125th. I can understand that people with a nervous disposition might be overwhelmed by it but we were absolutely fine.
The reason we used 125th is for the shuttle subway which takes you down to lower Manhattan much quicker by missing out many stations. 116th is served by the ‘local’ train which stops at every station on route.
The supermarket around the corner is brilliant, full of many different branded and non branded products, fresh sushi, salad bar and cakes.
We will definitely go back to Robin in the future. We loved our stay, it was everything we wanted and more!!!