I stayed in this apartment with my wife and 2 year old daughter while I participated in a 7-week workshop at UW in the EE building. We also had our parents stay with us for parts of that time. Overall, the apartment would probably be better for a shorter stay than a longer stay.

Getting to campus on foot was pretty easy on the Burke-Gilman trail, 20 minutes to the EE building, but otherwise it was a bit awkward getting around without a car. The neighborhood was nice, if mostly residential. Ravenna is the bottom of a ravine, and getting up to 22nd ave requires climbing several flights of steps. It does not connect with 45th st, even though it looks like it does on google maps. The frats up the hill tended to throw fairly noisy parties. The wifi connection is shared with the other apartments on the floor and not especially reliable, so it was easier for my wife to work at the nearby coffee shops.

Melissa was a decent host. When we booked the apartment, it was listed as having two double beds, but in the intervening time one of them had been replaced by a single bed. Melissa bought a new double bed and had it assembled in the second bedroom in time for our parents to use it. She also bought, at our request, hangers for the closet and a power strip to plug things into because all of the outlets seemed to be too loose to hold a plug in. She was not there to let us in, nor was she there when we left, but both processes went fine. She let us keep our bags in the apartment in the afternoon after we had checked out and before we went to the airport.