We had a decent stay at this property. Overall the stay was fine but it’s hard to get over several obstacles. I preface this review with the fact that this was a family vacation with my wife and our 2 children under 5 yrs.
The apartment was clean, but the pictures didn’t quite do it justice. Several areas of the floor in the bathroom and kitchen were quite aged. The bathtub appeared to have been painted and refinished, but was not exactly desirable for my children to sit in to take baths at night.
The check-in and check-out process was frustrating enough to make me drop my rating several stars. I had read reviews that referenced the checkin process, but I thought the issue had been remedied because the listing clearly stated a lockbox was used for checkin. There is no lockbox. It’s essentially an electronic PO Box inside a convenient store that is about a half mile from the building. We weren’t given instructions until the day before checkin even though I asked for them early. Our flight got delayed past the time when the store closed so we couldn’t make it in time to pick up the key before the store closed. The property caretaker did go above and beyond to meet us at the property after midnight which was HUGELY appreciated but I would be remiss not to mention this inconvenient method of key exchange even if we had arrived earlier in the day.
Location was fine as long as you take an immediate right out of the building and walk as fast as you can with your head down until you get to Pike St. The building is close to an underpass so there are numerous homeless that camp a couple hundred yards to the left. Overall we enjoyed the proximity to stores on Pike St and the Market, so if homeless don’t bother you then it could be a highly coveted location.
If we didn’t have the kids with us the aging of the floors and tub as well as location with homeless would not have bothered me quite as much, so depending on your travel group these issues may or may not impact you.
Amara was very responsive the whole time and I couldn’t say enough about how appreciative we were that they met us with the key at checkin.