Simon should not be renting this apartment. He required us to call him for building entry and didn't tell us about a Thursday evening flight he had scheduled where he wouldn't be available to answer the phone. He mentioned another way into the building but we found that locked when we tried it. We had late night plans but unreliable building access contributed to our decision to skip them and not stay out late in general.
This could have been avoided if we were allowed to take the key with us but Simon instructed us to lock the key in a lockbox every time we left the apartment and told us that if the key was lost we would have no recourse to get back into the apartment. To access the lockbox you have to lean into his private balcony from the very exposed public building space. We were uncomfortable the whole time navigating the building and wondering whether or not to risk a bad review by further pressing the point of being allowed to take the key with us. If you don't mind waiting for access to the building in the middle of the night, hoping security doesn't find your presence suspicious, sneaking around the building and looking like a burglar trying to unlock a lockbox on someone's private property from the public area every time you need access to the apartment, then you might enjoy Simon's spacious bathtub and clean kitchen.