This is my first 3 star review ever. This place is all around NOISY. We booked the place specifically because it said that it was good for infants and that simply wasn’t the case.
The good: David us an EXCELLENT communicator and even let us check out a bit later because we had a later flight. He is the reason this review is up from 1 or 2 stars.
The bad: EVERY time you step in this apartment (literally every place on the entire floor) the floor squeaks extraordinarily loud. Like Halloween cartoon movie loud. This would have been comical had we not had an infant with us who's sleep cycles are already a bit funny. My husband and I tried everything to avoid the loud creaking floor including:
- “the floor is lava” technique where you run on your tip toes at a heightened velocity in the hope that the floor shrieks are less than banshee volume.
- hugging the walls and trying to take some of the weight off the feet. Over our 3 night stay, we tried anything and everything to make it bearable…all attempts were thwarted by the floor.
The ugly: not only does our floor creak, but the ENTIRE BUILDING creaks. So if anyone is walking in any of the other apartments around us then you also hear all of those creaks as well too. Plus the doors slam when people leave their apartments and the building. You can tell that this entire building is rented out as 4 separate Airbnb units. Single ply toilet paper and no conditioner in the shower show me that it’s just all about the profit at this place. There are lots of other amazing places to stay in Portland..I’ll be going to those next time.
As a side note (although this has nothing to do with the host, but it’s worth mentioning)..one of our upstairs neighbors had two screaming children that you could hear like they were in the room with us. Same with the millennials throwing a party upstairs listening to 90s throwbacks.
All and all, if you are looking for a central place, then this will suffice, but for the money, you can find something much more quite and with better amenities.