You get what you pay for. For the most part the apartment itself was fine, the bed wasn’t super comfortable but was ok for the two nights we were here. We didn’t end up using the kitchen but it was nice to have the option and a small fridge. The apartment is above Merchant’s Cafe & Saloon which is definitely more of a bar than we realized when booking. It was noisy at night but quieted down about midnight (our stay was over weekdays). We had issues with parking in this area. According to the host there is plenty of street parking, however when we arrived we discovered that every street space was full and all the parking garages were charging for event parking because the Mariners were playing half a mile down the road. We reached out to the host about 4p and said we were having trouble finding anywhere nearby to park. Unfortunately we did not hear back from the host until about midnight and she told us not to use the parking lot across the street. At that point it was too late and we had already parked there as we were not comfortable wheeling our luggage a long distance from the car to the apartment due to the significant population of people experiencing homelessness. We did not personally have any problems or interactions with anyone from that community however neither my wife or I would have been comfortable walking around at night alone. Last thing- I would not define this apartment as conveniently walkable to the aquarium or Pike Place. Both are about 3/4 mile from the apartment and there are lots of hills.
Overall everything turned out ok for this stay but I think I would look for something else if we come back to Seattle.