We visited the area to move my son into his dorm at Brown. Overall, it was a decent stay, but I probably won’t stay here again. For starters, I’m pretty sure this was a boarding house recently converted to vacation rental. Secondly, I’ll typically rent an apartment or house for the weekend to save money on dining out. It’s advertised as a 3 bedroom apartment but there is no living space for a family to converge. The kitchen seats 2 people max and there is no living room. We ended up eating out the rest of the trip for this reason, in addition to the fact that the kitchen is lacking in many basic items needed to cook, such as knives, cutting board, mixing bowls.
Other issues we had included a missing television remote. I reached out to property manager about this upon arrival but didn’t get a response until the next morning. We did, however, not arrive until almost 9 pm so I can’t blame her for the lack of communication there. The remote issue was rectified when I downloaded an app on my phone to control the tv, although I never did get the remote.
One of the other televisions was not able to get any service and even though it was a smart tv, wouldn’t connect to the WiFi. There was a USB device going from the back of the tv, across the wall and out the middle of the window that I believe was a make shift antenna of some kind. Once I disconnected this, I was able to connect to the WiFi without a problem.
The AC wall unit in my bedroom was missing the knobs so I wasn’t able to regulate the temp. The response I received was to turn the unit on and off using the reset and test button on the plug which clearly doesn’t seem safe. I asked the property manager for needle-nose pliers so that I’d be able to use them as a make shift knob and received a response several hours later that they were left for me.
Once we were settled in, we had a decent stay. The property was clean and surprisingly quiet considering it’s located in a very busy area. If one of the bedrooms was converted into a living room and the kitchen tools were upgraded a bit, I would definitely return.