It’s a complete vibe! Very thoughtfully designed and every space feels intentional. This is a great place to go to just sit with yourself and disconnect from things. Like a city brain break but kinda still in the city. And when your ready for some interaction, the host provides a full binder of places to go and things to see! The metro is right down the street and Minnesota’s metro fees were OUTSTANDING so is not going to cost you an arm and a leg to get around. Super quiet area with the exception of the train sounds but that’s to be expected since it IS a walkable distance away. I never heard them blaring on the horn like some places
The only thing that would make it beyond perfect is if they had loose tea (there were tea bags and coffee, and even creamer and sugar but I’m that chick that loves loose tea). the kitchen had spices that I would add to my tea so it worked perfectly! The kitchen also had some cooking/baking helpers like cream of tartar, flour, mixers, etc
The host was super responsive and even sent my sweater back to me (at my cost) when I told her I forgot it!
I had a lovely stay!
So if everything was so amazing and perfect, WHY only 4 stars and not 5? Mostly bc I can’t take only a half star otherwise it would be 4.5 but the AC was an issue. We went in mid June which means one day can be beautiful and the next sticky hot and the day after it’s maybe chilly. The weather just does the most. It’s an older building so it doesn’t have central air but one of those units in the wall for the main living space and a floor unit with a tube thing out of the window for the main bedroom. Two issues: 1. If it’s crazy hot, middle bedroom doesn’t have a way of cooling down unless you leave the door open and the main unit running for probably most of the day but the host request that you turn everything off if you leave for the day so that can’t happen. If you have little kids with you, great! They can have the door open and be just fine! But two or more adults or if those kids are teens… having a door open to that bedroom is probably not going to be a comfortable option. 2. The wall unit in the main living space was obnoxiously loud. Like the tv had to be turned way up and it was difficult to have a conversation using an indoor voice. From my understanding, they had to order a new motor for it and I’m confident that this was a new issue they recently learned about and that by now, it’s fixed. Positive note: if you go in the spring or fall you can open those big beautiful windows and have a fantastic breeze come through and not need the AC at all! We had one cool morning and one cool evening that the windows being open was enough to cool the place down!