I went in with pretty low expectations for my overnight stay at Katie's. I knew I booked a cheap room in a house with others so I didn't expect many comforts of home.
Pros-
-The bed is incredibly comfortable
-The location is great and the neighborhood seems safe
-Clean, I didn't see any grime or dirt
Cons-
-The place absolutely reeked. I was hit by a wall of body odor as soon as I walked in the door and my room stank too. There were some piles of laundry by the door, perhaps that contributed to this.
-There is no external lock on the bedroom door. That means if you leave or go to the bathroom, you must leave your room unlocked. There are multiple other guests in the house. I was not very comfortable with this.
-More so, the lock from the inside of the bedroom door does not work. It has a note that tells you to lift the handle to engage the lock but no matter how hard I tried it would not latch.
-You have no control over temperature. The heat was blasting in my room on a reasonable spring evening.
-The place lacks charm. The towel racks have been yanked off the wall in the bathroom and everything looks more worse for wear than the pictures depict.
If you really need a place to stay or are only passing through town, you could stay here. After the taxes and fees, the room isn't really all that much cheaper than a hotel nearby. For the nearly $100 that I paid, I would have rather gone somewhere else.