I have mixed feelings about our stay here. It’s in a good location. And if you’re out all day and just come there to sleep you’ll be fine.
That’s mostly what we did. The common areas in the house where sparse. Maybe my expectations where too high. For some reason I assumed we would share the apartment with Jackie. The reason I like Airbnb is partly because of the social interactions with the host. I missed that. The common area just had a desk so nowhere to sit down. If I want to be ‘locked up’ I would book a hotel. The kitchen felt like a student housing. The shower was pretty much falling apart. It could do with an update.
The room itself (room 1) has no real daylight coming in. There are two windows, but you’re basically sharing that window with your neighbor. I guess that’s New York. The neighbor kept the light on all night, it was never dark. And it’s like she’s your roommate. Mostly a lot of noise between 5 and 7 am.
There is a steam pipe in the room that makes a lot of noise when it heats up about 3 times every 2 hours. Like somebody is using the pipes for there drums. Jackie put the super to work on that. So I hope it will be fixed for the next guests.
Lastly it’s the cleaning. Some of the higher places are caked in dust. I’m tall, I’m guessing the cleaner isn’t.
It feels like I’m complaining a lot and I probably am. Despite the complaints we enjoyed our time. There is room for improvement. On the short term consider another room here. Room 2 in the back did have natural light, it’s slightly smaller though.
Did I mention it was a good location?!?