If location is the only thing you care about, this is the place for you.
If while staying in an Airbnb you also wish to have a slow/awkward check-in, intermittently functioning hot water, a semi clean apartment, odd sewer gas aromas, partially secured lodging, keys that only sometimes function, spotty WiFi, poor communication with your host and an inaccurate listing…then this is your place too!
Of course, if you're like most people, you probably don't want to have to deal with or be surprised by any of these things while on vacation.
Read Alicia’s review to corroborate what I am saying here (we dejectedly read her review while sitting in the apartment and were like “how did we miss this it is exactly right?”).
We stayed at this Airbnb for four nights (well, kind of - due to lack of hot water and a floor-to- ceiling shade having been ripped out of the wall - but left dangling and unusable - prior to arrival - we got moved to a second apartment) during a four week trip. Of the five Airbnbs we stayed in -- and of the dozens I've stayed in over the years, this is the first time I've ever left a negative review. This apartment was incredibly poorly cared for and it really gave one the sense of what Airbnb has become for some hosts: a way to cheaply and carelessly snap up properties and make money with zero regard for the experiences their guests are hoping to have.
On our visit here, we were greeted after waiting 15 minutes for our host. In the apartment, the upholstery on the couch was dirty and it was ripped and dangling from the bottom of the chairs. Going to the bedroom, as I mentioned the shade for the wall of windows was unusable, but left in that state for our arrival (we aren’t big window treatment people but in this place it matters a lot).
The off gas smell from the bathroom was unrelenting. There were hairballs in the corners of the room. The hot water didn't work. And when I went to do laundry, there were so many odds and ends stacked on top of the machine that I couldn't get to it. We ended up paying for the service at a shop down the street. Our first night, we couldn't get into the front door because our key didn't work and waited for another guest to arrive to get in, luckily.
We were moved into another apartment the next day due to the shades and the hot water. We pulled our keys to the apartment from a JAR OF EXTRA KEYS just sitting in the lobby. This was unsettling to say the least. The new apartment had a spacious bed and felt cleaner, but the hot water was never fully resolved. On our third day we did get some hot water….but it cycled in and out. Throughout the whole experience I would sometimes wait for hours to hear back from the host on how they were going to resolve this….
If we were young kids paying hostel prices for a hostel situation, all of this would have been tolerable. But for the price and given the listing, our expectations were higher and were disappointingly never met. I would never recommend this listing or this company.