Positives
Apartment is clean throughout. It is quiet. Kitchen is stocked with plates, utensils, spices, and all appliances, including coffee machine. The bedroom mattress is comfortable. Wifi is fast and a spare monitor and contactless phone charger on the table is very convenient. The host responds to request messages within minutes.
Negatives
The futon in the living room is punishingly stiff to sleep on. It is too short for anyone taller than 6 feet. The ceiling is about 7 feet high and little more than 6 feet at the beam, crossing in the middle of the living room. There was an initial oversight with missing linen for the futon but promptly provided after our request. Bathroom and bedroom doors don’t close but that’s a minor detail for us.
Our biggest issue was and overall dampness and mildewed smell primarily in the living room. Our son got only a few hours of sleep the first night because of it. Eventually we found out that the smell was coming from a soaking wet area rug under the futon. We removed the rug from the apartment, cleaned and dried the tiles under it. Most of the smell was gone. Next late afternoon we discovered moisture forming on some tiles where the area rug was. Note that A/C was not being used. We informed the host of our findings. Although the second night on the futon was better, it was still very uncomfortable. By the end of the day we decided to cut out stay short and leave.
Summary
If we didn’t need to use the futon, we would not have been bothered as much and likely stayed. Perhaps previous guests only slept in the bedroom. It is possible that we are the only ones that got unlucky or maybe rarely anyone sleeps in the living room or there was no observable moisture before us. We just don’t know but for us it was an unfortunate calamity.
We get the impression that the apartment is a converted garage since the ceiling is low, the floor is leveled with the driveway, the entry door opens from the driveway, and there was moisture forming in spots on floor tiles. A dehumidifier will not solve this. This apartment maybe a very good deal if the issues are resolved, but wasn’t for us.
A few days later the host offered us credit to stay in the future and promised to replace the futon and resolve the moisture issue, attributing the moisture to a faulty portable A/C unit that was replaced. Unfortunately, that’s not much of a consolation for us.