Our stay here had its ups and downs, I'll start with the good things:
Location is conveniently near a ton of services and close enough to make Pike Place an easy stroll.
The rooftop deck was pretty cool, good views day and night and I rarely saw others out there
The beds were relatively comfy
Now for the bad.
The first of the two biggest deal breakers for me was the fact we could only get one set of keys our whole stay. There were multiple couples in our travelling party so we had to change our whole trips plans to accomodate having one set of keys between all of us. When I asked the property manager as well as her manager, I was told they'd look into it, but then never heard back despite reaching out to them very politely for a follow up. Very unprofessional.
The next big issue was parking, I could tell from the reviews the included parking space was small and likely not going to work for us. There is tons of parking garages in the area, however we had to spend over two hundred to park our two vehicles for our stay. There is street parking but there is also a decent sized "tent city" homeless camp meters away from the building and I had a very hard time wanting to park our cars near that.
That leads me to the next concern which is the amount of homeless people living on that road.
There were not quite enough AC units to cool the place, which I could also normally look past. However to escape the heat you have to open a window in the bedroom. Doing so you let in the noise of the I5 highway next to the building. I'm a heavy sleeper but I could not sleep through that, so we opted to sweat it out making for several Sleepless in Seattle jokes and some very tired mornings.
Another issue was every dish we went to use was filthy
In summary the nail in the coffin on this trip was the extra hundreds we were not planning on spending in order to park our cars, as well as the horrendous customer service we experienced from the property manager and her boss regarding a simple request of a second set of keys. I will not name drop them in the review but if anyone from VRBO or Vacasa actually cares, I do have them. I have never stayed at a rental with property management and assumed it was going to be the best treatment I've experienced, but it was by far the worst. As my first VRBO and Vacasa experience, I do have to say I am unlikely to use these services again unless someone is interested in providing some after-the-fact customer service.