I had a great time staying at carina’s Place . The location is great and is a 15 min walk from downtown Palo Alto . I was staying in the garden room which was nicely painted , had nice large windows , cozy with adequate closet space and a personal microwave. The staff would replaced your bed sheets and towels every Friday which I thought was very professional . I usually got to use the shared bathroom to myself as sometimes there was no guest next door . I really liked the cozy living area which has very comfortable sofas . The house feels quite safe because of security cameras in common spaces and a digit lock at the front door . I stayed for almost 5 weeks and the place started to actually feel like home .
I appreciated Carina’s quick and prompt responses if I needed anything fixed. Sometimes I felt carina could be a bit stern but I guess she was just being professional .Special thanks to her staff member Kim who was very courteous and helpful . Also the laundry and ironing service was available at a very cheap rate which I think was so convenient .
I was doing a course at Stanford and since the weather was rainy throughout feb instead of cycling it I would usually do a Uber/Lyft pool which I found quite reasonable as well . The coffee machine had many different nice flavours of different coffee capsules which I enjoyed before work every morning . First with limited kitchen use I thought It might be inconvenient to not be able to use the stove to cook but it’s really not a big deal because I would usually have a quick breakfast like some fruit and yoghurt and then lunch at work , and dinner you could always heat in the microwave .
I was looking forward to meeting carina’s Little dog but unfortunately she wasn’t there as she was away to the east coast with carina .