This is a curious place. It can be a reasonable experience, but you need to come in with the right expectations. My hosts put me up here for a week so it wasn't my choice to stay here. The location is excellent as it is near a lot of busy streets with shops and restaurants, but is also close to neat sights like museums just across the river, the Needle and all sorts of parks. Additionally, the idea of staying in a one-bedroom apartment equipped with a full kitchen and in-unit laundry facilities is quite appealing when visiting somewhere for several days. These were the pluses.
But there are minuses. First, they pretty much have no lobby. Do not expect a hotel waiting area. It almost feels as though you're arriving at a dorm. That can be fine depending on the circumstances and expectations. But if you just arrived from a 30+ hour trip and your room is not ready then it is a rather unfortunate situation. Second, the quality of cleaning that occurs daily is seriously questionable. It would be fine if they simply said they won't clean and then you didn't expect it. But they do go around to clean, except they don't really. Two days in a row, I found trash from my bathroom waste basket in the toilet. This trash wouldn't flush. Yuck. And the bathroom floor also hadn't been cleaned beyond sweeping some of the material to the corner. Yuck again. One evening I could also feel some weird smells from the bathroom area that were not originating in my unit. Were they I also had problems operating the television set. Try resetting the devices, then it may work.
With realistic expectations - you're on your own - the place can be charming and comfortable. But you definitely don't want to think of it as a regular hotel. read more