We stayed in Austin for 3 months during our road trip!
Gonna detail everything in this review because this is not a weekend stay or a short stay, so we want to make sure we add all the details.
Pros:
1st: communication was great, Irina and Juan were great hosts! They were able to help us with all the little issues we had, including slow internet.
2nd: Location was great and there is everything you may need within walking distance. We really loved Soco and would highly recommend the neighborhood to everyone.
3rd: neighbors were very friendly
4rd: it has a small gym and pool was great!
5th: kitchen has all basic amenities you may need for a short stay.
The apt as per other reviews is a studio and not a 1 bed/1bath as per description. If you are going by yourself that may be a great place. For a couple, it was a little too tight. Especially not having separate rooms to work at while both working from home.
Cons:
1) our bike got stolen within a week of our stay.
2) the place is loud! The bar next door during hot days had closed doors so we didn’t hear much, but as the nights got cooler, it was loud til 2am.
3) you can hear the neighbors upstairs loud and clear to the point that we started sleeping with our airpods in. The neighbor upstairs happens to be a night-owl too, which woke us up almost everyday 2/3am…
4) AC doesn’t get too cold in the summer and Heat kicks in as soon as the temperature outside is in the 50s. We had to turn it off bc it got super hot in the building but couldn’t open the windows because of the noise.
If the studio was open for shorter stays, it would be absolutely perfect, but as this had to be a 3-month minimum, some details make a lot of difference.