Let me begin with the positives:
- Reserved parking
- In princeville
- Chairs, cooler provided
Cons (it's going to be long and detailed!):
1. The apartment is filled with roaches of different sizes! I messaged West when we saw the roaches letting her know of the issue. Although roaches is the last thing anyone wants on a vacation, we understood that we couldn't do much because we didn't have time and energy to spend on that. But the thing that bothered us is the response from West. I expected her to apologize for it and maybe try to find a solution. Instead, she messages saying she had free access to the studio for the last 2 days and there wasn't a single roach! She wanted to come and inspect the studio. I am thinking, why can't she believe me when I say there are roaches and try to find a solution to the issue. Next day morning I captured (in 3-4 minutes) and sent ~10 photos of roaches. No reply from her. Only after messaging a few more times does she reply at night saying "I saw the little roach" and she can put poison if we would like. It not clear if she entered the studio without our permission or she was saying that based on the photos. We said poisoning doesn't matter to us at that point because we were checking out soon. Also, she didn't apologies or anything till this point. Only after a few more back and forth messages she apologizes although it felt she hated every second of that!
2. The studio is filled with instructions everywhere. I understand we are staying at her house, but it's a bit excessive, making everything stressful.
3. She asks us to put all food-waste into a sandwich sized ziplock! That's so difficult. We got food to-go a couple of times and obviously the waste wouldn't fit in that small ziplocks. We had to go to a nearby gas station to throw the waste! Again, stressful things that noone wants on a vacation.
4. Wi-Fi signal isn't great. I just used my phone data the majority of the time. I could have reached out to her about this. But I didn't feel like reaching out to her based on our previous interactions. I didn't expect anything productive to come out of it.
Overall, the studio is not ideal till roaches are cleared. Also, interactions with West and the rules make everything more stressful. If you check the previous reviews, you will realize that she gets super defensive about any negative feedback. I expect the same with my review too.