If you want to sleep while you are in Austin do NOT book here. We stayed during an off season weekend in Austin. There were no music festivals or special events going on, which makes me believe it would be even worse during a big event weekend.
Music blasts from the street through the night until early hours of the morning. Sirens go off frequently and can be clearly heard in the apartment. From the interior of the building, drunk parties run, yell, scream and cheer in the hallways at all hours of the night. Because of all the hallway noise, the lower level of this apartment is an unacceptable space to sell as a sleeping area. The noise from other guests was so disturbing we had to move two mattresses out of the front room to the living room floor to sleep, which only helped slightly with hallway noise and was worse for hearing loud music blasting from the street. We wore earplugs the entire time and it was still extremely loud.
In addition to the noise, there was an AC pipe dripping into the kitchen the entire stay. We called about it and were told it would be serviced. It was not. The AC unit is very loud throughout the entire apartment. With the other noise, this is low on the negatives list, but worth mentioning.
I have never had to submit a bad review to Airbnb, but unfortunately this one is warranted. If you want to party all weekend, loud drunk 20-somethings don’t bother you and sleeping is not on the agenda, this rental could work for you. Unfortunately for me and my guests, this was not the case. This apartment should not be wrongfully marketed as a nice place to stay in Austin, but as the drunken party rental that it is.