This place was a dark, windowless, and tiny, narrow hallway. There was a hole behind the toilet that had flies coming out of it during my entire, extremely overpriced stay. There were ants all over the kitchen and the front entrance. I counted killing upwards of 10 flies a day. It felt awful.
And the laundry room next door had rodent droppings and urine all over the place (I took photos and video footage), but unfortunately was too freaked out to actually capture footage of the giant rodent (I’ve lived in NYC and it looked like a subway rat; it made me scream, I was so startled) that emerged the only time I used the laundry room. After that I understood what all those sounds were at night - rodents crawling in the walls and the ceiling. Now I understand why this place is almost always available on Airbnb and has been listed on Craigslist for over 2K a month as a “studio apartment.”
This place is not fit for residency. I sent the host messages often about each issue but he never did anything to actually solve any of them. I asked him to patch up and close the hole behind the toilet where the flies kept coming from, but he didn’t. I shoved toilet paper in there to keep the flies out, but there were way more holes than just that one, I discovered.
Also, a previous guest left their prescription benzodiazepines and sleeping pills in the medicine cabinet which were there when I arrived. A lot of them. These are both controlled prescription substances.
This was the worst place I have ever stayed on Airbnb.