We stayed at this unit for six days/five nights over the first weekend of ACL 2014 and had an overwhelmingly positive experience. We never cooked in the apartment and essentially used it as a place to decompress post-festival, but the extra space (when compared to a hotel) was much appreciated.
Pros:
- Location is awesome. We ran around the UT stadium and walked everywhere downtown (including to shuttles to ACL), to East Austin, and to a local Avis for a Hill Country day trip rental we needed. The statehouse is just about across the street and provides a great view (and cool tour).
- Space is great! It's just enough space for two and certainly enough for one. Kitchen is small but functional.
- Decor is cool. They have six or seven paintings by a local artist that bring a ton of color into the unit, along with guitars on the wall and a record player and audio jack for use with built-in speakers. Although the unit has character of an older building, everything in it is new, clean and comfortable.
- Racquel and Jacob are great hosts! Each is very attentive via text or otherwise and were a pleasure to rent from. I think it's a group of condos or some sort of management company that actually rents the place out, but there's a great website that explains how to use everything in the unit and also gives tips for things to do/see around town.
Cons:
- Like could happen in any building in Texas that's not brand-new airtight construction, we found one dead roach. Our hosts were more than willing to come over and dispose of it, but that certainly wasn't necessary. Not a big deal at all but want to share in nature of full disclosure.
- That's it! Seriously nothing else to even mention.
We would absolutely book again if back in Austin!