The good:
5- star Location, it’s minutes walking to MoPop, Space Needle, Chiully, 15-20mins to Pikes, restaurants and whole foods near by.
5- star checkin, bldg access, key pickup, and checkout.
The bad:
2- star room. First walk in the room smells of pot. We thought that was why the loud fan was running, turns out the fan is the units portable AC, and needed to run the entire stay,24x7 to combat the units excessive heat. Outside temp was between 57-68 during our stay the last day it cooled and rained, but inside was nearly 80. The portable AC and the two fans did very little to help, and they ran very loud, so the constant white noise was deafening. You have to unplug the ac hose (watch the duct tape to the frame), in order to open the balcony door, which was the only way to cool the place a little, but then you hear the street noise. I looked around the property and the unit sits above what I believe are the buildings generators, with giant exhaust fans. This was not disclosed. The owner was responsive but didn’t have a solution, just questioned if we didn’t have the portable ac set correctly, we did, its not hard. Another giveaway that the heat is a known problem, are the 3 different central air boxes on the walls in the unit, none of which worked, so seems to me they have been battling this problem for a long time.
Amenities: wifi is spotty in the unit, and non-existent in the lobby, I had to walk across the street. Day one missing toilet paper, the store across the street had some and the owner reimbursed me. The listing indicated not to use the washer/dryer or the dishwasher, yet all the dishes were in the dishwasher recently washed but not put away, the dish sponge was not new, and there was no dish towel for drying. The trash bags were too small for the trashcan so constantly had to be picked up, and there wasn’t a recycling can, and no instructions where to throw the trash when full. The roof top access and view of the space needle was nice.
We traveled with another family who stayed in the same building just a different unit and they had no problem like ours (6th floor). I might stay in the building a different unit, just not this one on the 3rd floor.