If you're looking for a prime location in downtown Seattle, this condo is it! With close proximity to the primary tourist attractions downtown, easy highway access, and views of the bay from the balcony, the location can't be beat. We also loved that there were so many delicious restaurants and a coffee shop/bakery within just steps of the building's entrances (the Italian restaurant and the halal restaurant on the 2nd Ave. side and the pizza place and the coffee shop/bakery on the 1st Ave. side were all great). Yes, the building complex does have a number of rules, but none of them seemed excessive and they were all very easy to follow. Ron who greeted us was very friendly and helpful, although we did find the tour of the building to be a little excessive, especially since it was later in the evening after a long day of traveling (a paper or digital map of the building would have been just as easy to understand and more beneficial to have to refer back to). Overall our experience staying here for a week was very positive, but there are two things that would have made our stay even better. First of all, all three pieces of living room furniture are very awkward and uncomfortable. After long days hiking through the national parks and exploring all that the Seattle area has to offer, it would have been great to have comfortable furniture on which to relax when we came back. The only other complaint we had (although it is in no way the fault of the host, just something to be aware of for potential guests) is that the parking situation in the garage was absolutely terrible. The spots are extremely narrow and most of them were impossible to pull into in a full-size sedan if cars were parked on the other sides (which there almost always were). Having a free parking space in a prime downtown location for our rental car was one of the primary reasons we selected this condo, but the parking situation caused so much anxiety every time we came back to the garage that there were times we avoided using our rental car at all. Again, the parking issues are in no way the fault of the host, but they are something to be aware of if you are planning on bringing any vehicle other than a small compact car. Overall we had a very pleasant stay and will look to stay with this host again when we return to Seattle before an Alaskan cruise next year...just perhaps without a rental car.