Stay: 3 nights, late July
Who: couple, late 40s
Rating: 3-4 stars
POSITIVES:
- Clean!
- Host is quick to respond and to addresses your concerns.
- Location is great (easy, safe ~15 min walk to downtown Kodiak, quick drive to Safeway/Walmart and ~9-10 mins drive to ADQ).
- Parking is super-convenient to your unit.
- The view is nice but, even better, the back"yard" is really quiet/serene so sitting on the balcony is peaceful.
NEGATIVES:
- Really odd floor layout which is not at all conducive to privacy, convenience, relaxing or even really enjoying the view (from indoors).
- Noise from downstairs units undermines privacy. Owners live right downstairs and we often heard them speaking loudly on speaker phone. This constant reminder that there are people through a very thin floor took away our sense of privacy. Also, we could hear lots of noise from the rental unit directly below. Someone was banging/slamming and dragging things early on Saturday morning; Host's unapologetic response: "Probably downstairs guests scrambling for airport". It ruined our Saturday morning.
- No shade/curtain on large glass panel on front door so anyone that walks up to the unit can see straight into your space through to balcony.
- Furniture is uncomfortable: deck chairs are for sitting (not relaxing), mini sleeper sofa takes up a huge amount of floorspace but not comfortable for sitting (it slopes weirdly), rolling kitchen countertop too crowded to be used as a table, mattress is too soft.