My son and I left the apartment and checked into a hotel after two nights here. We would have left sooner, but everything was booked over the weekend. I understood from the price that the place wouldn't be luxurious, but given the excellent reviews I had higher hopes. I was hugely disappointed.
The bathroom wasn't really clean. The tiles were covered in someone else's hair. I couldn't figure out how to turn on the shower. And I couldn't let my son take a bath in a tub that was visibly dirty. The toilet only flushes half the time and randomly runs in the middle of the night. There's a short in the light over the sink. The middle bulb goes off and on. The travel size soap and two towels--no shampoo as promised in the listing--were not going to get us through the week. And the bathmat was ancient and frankly disgusting.
The beds were fine but the sheets and thin, cheap blankets need replacing. The curtains barely cover the windows. Light pours in from the street at night. And there's no privacy during the day with the windows open. Not that you can hold them open. The tie backs are falling out of the wall. And the left window is partly open, and the handle is missing so I couldn't close it. The noise from the busy street overlooking a liquor store went on all night, making it impossible to sleep. The a/c is deafening when turned on. There are tiles literally falling off the walls and others visibly cracked and broken. The round table, barely big enough for a laptop, is falling apart.
The refrigerator is leaking something I hope is water. The cleaning person left a wad of soaked paper towels in the bottom of it. I tried to clean up some of these things but there was nothing to clean with. There was a tiny, almost empty bottle of dish soap. No sponge, no dish towels, no paper towels, not even a napkin. I didn't open the dish washer because I was afraid of what I might find. There was no detergent for it anyway so there was no point investigating. When I raised these issues to the owner she completely stopped communicating with me.
I was completely overwhelmed by what a wreck the place was. I have no idea how it has received 4.2 stars.
