Pros:
-spacious and clean
-full kitchen with more than basic kitchen wares. You have coffee, tea, toaster, cutting boards, steak knives, pans, cookie sheets, spatulas and so much more! We cooked breakfast each morning with ease.
-full laundry room
-balcony
-easy access to airport and downtown Austin
-plenty of towels, pillows and bedding
Cons:
-Before we arrived, we asked to extend by one day. Host attempted to charge us more than a weekend rate for a Monday. When questioned, he claimed it was a SXSW upcharge. He attempted to capitalize even further on SXSW by upping his Monday night rate higher than our Friday, Saturday and Sunday rate (which was also SXSW). So double upcharge?We declined and grabbed an airport hotel. Host then offered us a discounted Monday rate after we had already arrived, but by then we had already grabbed an airport hotel for one night. Overall, it felt shady and left me with bad vibes. I still left good feedback because the place is nice.
-neighbors directly below like to use their patio for drinking, chatting and smoking nightly. White noise app helped with this.
-location is just ok. We Ubered out of the area each day, and didn’t explore much. No sidewalks and business close to freeways. Park is near, but we opted to explore others in better areas.
-smell is unpleasant. My partner and I arrived to the house at different times, and it was the first thing that hit us both.
-no welcome book/local recommendations for neighborhood