Reviews of Kasa the Niche University City Philadelphia Reviews of Kasa the Niche University City Philadelphia

Not worth the asking price for the stay but not a terrible stay. I think the main issue is the misrepresentation of how spacious it is is the biggest problem.

The place was pretty nice. Depending on the room they place you in you may have to walk some stairs. The room is pretty small and the bed is bit low. It’s good for a quick stay of exactly 1-2 people. I also couldn’t locate the microwave that I was told was on site. But overall not a bad stay, and they were very response.

Great place

seamless check-in and nice studio apartment! very close to U Penn

Cute space in University City Clean and very centrally located in University City. Amenities were clean and in working order. Only caveat for travelers would be is that there is no closet in the single room that I was in. Which didn't concern me as I tend to travel out of my luggage.

As some others have shared in their reviews, there is no one on site here. You are on your own. I did not feel safe here because the front door was often left unlatched/unlocked. Was it locked at night? Who knows? There were also very rude and very loud guests in the common area from 11pm to 2 am and there was no one to complain to about it. I asked the people to quiet down at midnight and they were confrontational, sassy, and continued with their very loud partying. This situation could have easily escalated. Also no one addressed those concerns after reaching out by email and phone so clearly those concerns are not being addressed. On a positive note, the room itself was clean and updated and the bed was comfortable and is why I'm generously giving 3 stars.

Great spot near West Philadelphia My husband and I stayed her and had a great visit. We come to West Philly often to visit our son and this is hands down the most affordable place to stay. It has everything we need, warm and comfortable bed, great shower, tv and blow dryer. I wasn't wild about making a security deposit which seemed kind of high but they did promptly credit me for it after we checked out. It is very basic but that's all we need and really appreciated somewhere more affordable in the area. We had a problem at check in that was taken care of right away and our texts were always answered promptly.

Extremely fabulous studio apartments, top notch ambiance and amenities would highly recommend it. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Gabriele, Renne, Charm and Jen who took utmost care of me during my stay. Once again thank you so much and god bless

The space is very nice, modern and clean. It is a walk up, so if you have luggage you need to be prepared to go up steep stairs as there is no elevator. They were very responsive to my questions and concerns. It is conveniently located to the University of Pennsylvania. It is in a generally safe area, but it is not an area you want to venture too far by yourself at night.

The place is nice and clean. However, the stairway is very narrow, making it hard to move my luggage up and down the stairs.

The Niche is simple, easy and well priced. No frills but has everything you need!

Good Nice and quite place

A literal party wall Industrial chic recently renovated. A bar with music into the wee hours is adjacent to the bedroom. If you like eavesdropping on bar patrons and dancing to your favorite reggae beats, the bedroom is a prime spot.

An awesome location if you’re visiting Penn campus, easy walk, lots of food, groceries & Starbucks right there. Street parking is easy

The room was very nice and clean, however the lock on the door was loose but still functioned and the only amenity was a fridge which was good for storing snacks and a coffee maker that did not work. Other than those two things I found the place very chic clean and safe and the local area very nice. I would definitely book again.

Great short stay. Very good experience room was nice a cozy.

Do not stay here if you want to sleep. Misery from start to finish. Bar downstairs blasts music non-stop - Niche pretends to care but does nothing that makes a difference. YOU CANNOT "SLEEP" HERE - which is all we wanted the place for... We reserved at the last minute as we were driving several hours to Philadelphia. Unfortunately after we reserved thru hotels.com (and pre-paid for both nights), we were sent emails that we did not see while driving for 5 hours. We arrived expecting to have information about how to enter the property, instead we had an email demanding that we immediately send a deposit worth more than the hotel rooms - and which was NEVER mentioned on hotels.com. (Bad on them too). Niche also wanted photos of my ID & credit card - even though I had already paid for the room and was not about to send that info over the internet. It took 45 minutes of phone calls to deal with their requirements while we were exhausted and dying to use the bathroom. Finally got in .... Room is ok, basic, one cup in the entire room. Cheap amenities... We were immediately assaulted by insanely loud music ... unfortunately music was louder when we came back to go to bed. Both nights we were kept up by loud music - niche offered a different room, but we had already settled in and I don't think it would make a difference - the music was overwhelming. The problem is cheap windows and a bar downstairs that doesn't care. (I did ask that they turn the outside speakers down).

Nightmare Misery from start to finish. Bar downstairs blasts music non-stop - Niche pretends to care but does nothing that makes a difference. YOU CANNOT "SLEEP" HERE - which is all we wanted the place for... We reserved at the last minute as we were visiting colleges and driving from one to another. This was close to U Penn and seemed great for that reason. Unfortunately after we reserved thru hotels.com (and pre-paid for both nights), we were sent emails that we did not see while driving for 5 hours. We arrived expecting to have information about how to enter the property, instead we had an email demanding that we immediately send a deposit worth more than the hotel rooms - and which was NEVER mentioned on hotels.com. (Bad on them as well). Niche also wanted photos of my ID & credit card - even though I had already paid for the room and was not about to send that info over the internet. It took 45 minutes of phone calls to deal with their requirements while we were out in the hot sun and exhausted from a 5 hour drive - if we weren't meeting someone right nearby I would have cut my losses, cancelled and changed hotels. Finally got in .... Room is ok, basic, one cup in the entire room. Cheap amenities...handsoap is softsoap, which has an unpleasant scent. We were immediately wondering where the insanely loud music was coming from at 5:30 pm... We sent a note about it to Niche but were heading out so didn't give it too much thought ... until we came back to go to bed - still loud and throbbing at 10pm, 11pm, finally off around midnight. That sucked and kept us up way later than we wanted to be with a busy schedule. Took a shower the next morning - lukewarm. Never got hot even though I had it on full hot ... that was not enjoyable. Went out in the morning & came back at 3:30 to rest before going out again. Insanely loud throbbing music AGAIN... sent a note to the property management AGAIN ... the bar downstairs seems to be connected to this property but Niche claimed that it was only a restaurant ... that was odd. I had to go down myself to ask that they turn the music down - the manager made a big stink how it would inconvenience his customers - what? there were 5 ppl there who couldn't hear one another - I asked if he could just turn it down a bit - our room was shaking from the music... he finally had a tantrum, turned the entire outside system off and then told all of the customers that I was to blame - he was threatening toward me as well - really not at all what you sign up for when you just want a place to sleep while visiting colleges with your child. The music was back on when we came back from dinner and louder than ever. I wrote to Niche multiple times asking that they work it out with the bar/ restaurant. We had a very early morning on Sunday so went to bed at 10 - music not off until 11:30. I don't know if establishments are allowed to blast music outside all night, but I do know that you cannot offer a place for people to sleep in a city knowing that there is music blasting until late and not have adequate windows to keep out the sound. Niche needs better windows or to ensure that the bar won't blast music all the time so people can't think or sleep. Check-out instructions require that we load the dishwasher ... there isn't one for the one cup in here ... just dying to know what they are going to try to pull to try to keep the security deposit ... I'll update. Sadly for us, this place has not delivered on the most fundamental role of a place to stay: creating conditions for sleep. Oh, and ... We were awoken at 7am this morning, (1/2 hour before we wanted to get up after being kept up last night) by a loud group on a deck 2 buildings down. This is not a place to stay if you plan to sleep. Niche needs to get serious and put in better windows. Nightmare.

Great spacious apartments/rooms, very clean. Good location.

The blinds were broken.

Niche was a unique, spacious, and affordable option. I had family visiting me in University City. Niche was a cheaper option than nearby hotels. The units are apartment-styled and have great amenities. When we "checked in", we had a slight issue using the electronic key-pad on the door, but when we called the support line, they were able to get it sorted right away. Overall, it was an unconventional yet satisfying option!

Really great people with a great apartment to stay in, would for sure recommend.

Great location - a short walk to UPenn and many restaurants and cafes nearby. The room was squeaky clean with nice decor, and washer & drier seem very new too. Staff was always quick in response whenever I had questions.

(Translated by Google) But I simply won't rent it again, due to the fact that if you need something there is no one to help you. Everything is through the post office. And I think there is no way to talk to someone who can help you at that moment. A hotel is better. Here we could not control the air conditioning to our liking. The thermometer did not have a battery. (Original) Pero simplemente no lo vuelvo a rentar, por el hecho de que si necesitas algo no hay nadie quien te atienda. Todo es por medio de correos. Y creo que no hay como dirigirse con alguna persona que ese momento te pueda ayudar. Es mejor un hotel. Aquí no pudimos controlar el aireacondicionado a nuestro agrado. No tenía pila el termómetro.

Great location, responsive booking, etc., will definitely be staying here again! The area is totally walkable, easy parking, it's right by Penn but also just a normal neighborhood.

Depends what you’re looking for Loved the apartment. Hated the onerous pre-checkin process and requirements. Not worth a short stay. Also note there’s no elevator and the stairs are steep, so not for everyone.

A place to sleep in Philadelphia Niche advertises itself as a tastefully converted 19th century home in Philadelphia. There are 12 rooms. It is quiet. I stayed in one of their standard "studio" rooms with bed and bath. There was no closet in the bedroom. There was no heat in the toilet and shower area, up some painted stairs from the bed area. Clothing storage is a laminate drawer under the platform bed. There was no wastebasket or rubbish bin, apart from a mandatory receptacle for feminine hygiene materials tucked in next to the toilet. The room was clean. The wifi was great. There are several outlets in the bed area, and the sink is also in the bed area. Heat and cooling is from a wall-mounted unit with a thermostat control. Architecturally, it would take a minor miracle for the air from this unit to reach the toilet and shower loft. I needed a place to sleep near the university. It gave me a place to sleep, up a steep and narrow main staircase.

I booked a standard bed&bath "studio." The 3 good things were the number of electrical outlets in the room, the wifi, and the cunning lock system. The standard bedroom had no closet. The standard bath was a two-piece up a short set of painted wooden stairs (slippery when wet) with no heat. The sink was in the bed area. Clothes storage was a one drawer in the base of the cheap platform bed. There was no wastebasket. There was a dorm fridge but no way to heat anything. The heating/cooling unit near the ceiling just inside the door of the bed area made a lot of noise. The dorm fridge gurgled. No place to work--tiny pedestal table. Very steep stairs leading up from a foyer were the one way to access the rooms. The place is very bad for anyone with a mobility challenge. Basically, it was a flip that they tried to make seem chic, but that was for all that a builder-grade renovation made nearly legal by the drawer under the platform bed (one has to have something to serve as clothes storage in anything called a "bedroom"--normally, a raised closet, wardrobe, or bureau). I'll head for a proper place next time work takes me to Philadelphia.

WARNING when choosing room types WARNING - City View units DO NOT actually have a city view. Overall location and unit were fine. They required a large security deposit and referenced non-smoking building. However, 2 of the 3 nights there was HEAVY smell of marijuana in the hallways. When booking, we paid extra for the city view unit. City View is actually the name of the type of room and it cost more money than others at the same location. And, although VERY chatty via text for check in and check out, I had to ask more than half a dozen times for a response to my question about the CITY VIEW that we actually had - picture attached - as soon as we arrived. A response did not come until after we got home from our 3 night stay and they: - 1st blamed covid for a room switch - when asked about refund for room type difference said that the city view is a type of room vs a promise of a city view.

STAY AWAY! Not disability friendly whatsoever: my "suite" was on the third floor with no elevator, so I seriously considered rebooking somewhere else but nothing was available so I got stuck here. Room was filled with Ikea furniture (at least one piece was broken), the cheap digital lock on the door could definitely be taken off easily, there is no drinkable water in the building (they could at least put a water cooler in the entry!), and the whole thing reeks of gentrification. Most importantly, though: there was an audio surveillance device in my room, which was not disclosed in the paperwork I had to sign to stay here. I found a strange plastic thing plugged into the wall and assumed it was a scented plugin or something until I took it out and realized it had a FCC label on the back and looked up the company. NoiseAware is a sound monitoring system that relays information to property owners, and the company's site is clear that its use must be disclosed to renters, but the owners here didn't bother, which makes it illegal. I am completely appalled and would never, ever, stay at a URHIP property again.

He stayed is very nice. The only thing is there hair on the towel and on the bed other then that it was very nice. Thank you.

Property Management left us outside to whether the storm Ide to do check in. We couldnt conduct business past our first night. Left premises a day early due to poor customer service and uncomfortable room conditions. We are well- travelled and never experienced anything like the unprofessional treatment we received here. We inquired about a refund for the second night and the company had little regards to our discomfort. Needless to say, we highly do not recommend.

Beautiful remodel of an old building. Spotless and very attractive.

Loved the place. Very comfortable and well kept. 10/10

Great room; very modern