TLDR: The place is ok for shorter stays, Monnie was a horrible host, she talks with you like you’re her dude, or child, if you’re staying a few days it’s ok, but I wouldn’t recommend the place for longer stays, here are my 20+ days of observations:
- Check-in
I had to drive somewhere to take the keys, 20 mins further away, which is ok, I don’t mind, but they didn’t say this before. The person who handed over the keys, I suppose his name was Faro, was very friendly, kind and helpful, complete opposite of Monnie. He should take over the account.
- Value
The apartment is very cool, loft style. I liked it. The only con about the apartment was the location is very very very noisy. When it’s really hot the AC doesn’t work, I couldn’t make the apartment go below 77 degrees of Fahrenheit.
The fridge is basically very old or broken, I made it the coolest setting, but everything was rotten. It takes the direct sun hit for 4 hours, that might be the reason of this.
The dishwasher is very old, it doesn’t clean. In fact, the apartment was one of the cleanest one I’ve been, but it was totally opposite for the cups and dish-wares. I re-cleaned all of them myself, but again dishwasher doesn’t even clean the coffee stains of a coffee cup.
You see the gym is included in the descriptions, when I was booking this it didn’t say you need to drive to the gym for 20 mins, so I hope they change it, but gym was great apart from the distance.
- Host
Host’s attitude is terrible. She always message to you, hey did you do this, if not I’ll have to charge you… I had to take the spare key to leave the apartment, because the garage door was broken, and I shipped it back, overnight, paid on my pocket. The first message she sent to me was: “Hey, did you take the keys, if so, I have to charge you xyz” She’s just lack of basic kindness…
I wanted to extend my stay for 1 week, she directly sent me her phone number to extend without Airbnb with some discount. It was ok, people do that, but I wanted to pay 50/50 or every day, she refused it. It was a bit shady, so I refused it. I reported that to Airbnb too, so be careful about your non-Airbnb conversations with her.