424-Apt. 406

Awesome apar**ent in an ideal location. We loved this place.

We arrived at 9:30 pm. My impression was that we were is a horrible part of Pittsburgh, on an alley. It looked much better in the light. We really enjoyed our stay. But the first night, it took an hour or more on the phone and via email and text to get sheets, blanket, towels for our third person. So that was such a pain. Another issue is that there were directions for using a garage (no price listed), but the garage opener was not in the loft, so we had to use the street parking, which was OK. It ended up being in a really convenient part of town and walkable or drivable to many restaurants. The kitchen was stocked well, although I wasn't sure of that, and brought some pans. What the loft is missing is a dining table. There was plenty of space, but no table. You could eat at the counter on the most uncomfortable backless bar height seats. We brought games to play and there was no table to play them on. So get a table and some regular chairs!! Plenty of space for parking our bikes inside. This is the first time I stayed in a loft so I was a little surprised what exactly that was. I think this is a fairly new loft, but I could see 10 years down the road the huge pipes that are about 15 feet up, but 5 feet below the ceiling would get coated in dust. Also the floor would never get clean, since it is not flat, it has huge gouges in the concrete

It is a good alternative to a hotel with a lot of space and a kitchen. The building is a warehouse conversion so it is high ceiling, a big skylight on top of the living room, large bath room with washer dryer. The parking is on the street, unless you pay 20 a night in the garage across the alley. I worries about safety in the beginning when parking on street, call the owner and she assured me it is ok. It turned out a lot of cars park that way too and i parked two nights in the street near the building no issues. Lots of street parking spaces. Walked to CMU’s campus visit tour, more like 20 minute walk but it is ok. Draw back - you can hear neighbor from the adjacent unit since the warehouse style central air/duct. And if they smoke in their unit you can smell it too (sign say no smoke though)