✨🪷✨ The Lotus Suite is part of the 420 Vacation Club, Chicago. This Suite with 2 private bedrooms are part of our gorgeous & multicultural shared Apartment perfect for a family or a group or friends. You will enjoy your 420 experience in any of our allowed areas. You will have your own main door access code and check-in at ANY time after 3pm, no-hassle check-in guaranteed. FREE PARKING. NOTE: These are 2 private bedrooms with shared areas. ✨🪷✨ The Lotus Suite is part of the 420 Vacation Club, Chicago located in our beautiful shared apartment of the second floor, nicely decorated with multicultural details of our trips and equipped with a beautiful shared back yard with umbrellas, patio chairs & tables, sun loungers, water fountain & canopy. BEDROOMS: Enjoy two clean, cozy and nicely designed private bedrooms with inside locks. The first bedroom has a queen size bed and a twin-size bed, the second bedroom has a queen size bed. We provide extra pillows for your convenience. The bedrooms are equipped with closets, dressers, hungers, mirrors, night tables, lamps, blinds, curtains, etc. The second bedroom has a HDTV with Netflix. This is Perfect for a family or group of friends & enjoying your 420 experiences in our indoor/outdoor allowed areas. We have air conditioners in each bedroom, living room & kitchen that we use during hot days. There are ceiling fans in the bedrooms & living room, and space fans around the apartment to help to cool the rooms faster. During wintertime we have a central heater that keeps all the bedrooms and the whole apartment in a comfortable temperature to keep you warm and cozy. > 🍀 Enjoy your 420 experiences in our shared living room, shared dining room or shared Patio. For your convenience, this is a family & 420-friendly environment, which permits responsible cannabis consumption indoor/outdoor. Pipe, dab, joints, and other cannabis-exclusive consuming is permitted in the following areas: * Indoor: You can consume (cannabis only) in the living room & dining room only. * Outdoor: You can consume (cannabis only) in the back yard (patio) as well. * There are different dispensaries (medical & recreational marijuana) around the city, feel free to ask for more information after you make your booking. >> Please check the house rule #2 about no smoking tobacco/cigarettes/cigars/etc. in any area of the property. > There is a HD TV & a Blue-ray DVD player with Netflix & YouTube access in the shared dining room area. * Wi-fi: 500 Mbps. - Speedy Download > Wire & Wireless chargers in the kitchen area. 🔷 > FREE PARKING: “You can park your car on our block, we will provide a free permit parking pass to park your car on our block. Also, you can usually find free street parking around the block of the property.” 🔹> You will have your own main door access code and check-in at ANY time after 3 p.m., no-hassle check-in guaranteed. 🔹> 24h/7 public transportation, the bus stop is STEPS AWAY from the house. 🔹>> We have a shared laundry in the lower floor of the building where you can have access to wash and dry your clothes. 🔹> If you need to iron your clothes no worries, you can iron your clothes using our lightweight professional vertical steaming iron and our iron table. 🔹> The neighborhood is extremely safe even at night where you can enjoy international restaurants and stores. 🔷 >*< After an exciting day in the city you can always come to a very comfortable home to relax in the backyard, take a nap, nice warm shower, read a book or laid back and listen to music, or enjoy your 420 experience in any of our allowed areas, so you can start another exciting new day. You will Enjoy our gorgeous apartment using our comfortable shared living room, we call it the Relaxing room with a beautiful carpet and many pillows and a few chairs to relax, listen to quiet and relaxing music, do yoga, meditation, relaxing or read a book while feeling the breeze of our ceiling fan, we have decorated this space with plants and some international decorations of our trips. The shared dining room is spacious with a comfortable table and chairs, light decorated with our trip souvenirs. You can also enjoy your meals around the table or on the kitchen table as you want. - Shared Bathroom, well equipped bathroom: Magnetic shower heat with hand shower with flexibility & powerful full body spray, hot water, clean towels, gel soap, shampoo, conditioner, toiletries, hairy dryer & small space fan. We have a good equipped and shared kitchen with a stove, stove extractor, refrigerator with ice machine, cabinets, microwave, conventional oven, toaster, blender, rice maker, glasses, pantry to store your food products, Baking sheet, Barbecue utensils, Coffee maker, Hot water kettle, Wine glasses, etc. >> Enjoy cooking your own breakfast, lunch, or dinner where we can provide kitchen utensils to facilitate the time for your cooking. We can provide salt & pepper, some condiments, (no oil), and a specific space for your fresh produces in the refrigerator and pantry. • You can refresh yourself with ice cubes from our ice maker machine and cool water that is part of the fridge; you can also prepare your own smoothies and beverages. • You can enjoy your meals in two places: in the kitchen table or in the dining room. Please, clean everything that you used and leave everything as it was, there might be other guests that will use the same shared areas. * Wi-fi: 460 Mbps. - Speedy Download * Wireless chargers More Shared Areas: > Warm season: During your stay you can enjoy our beautiful & shared back yard/patio, you can use this yard by using our umbrellas, a yard chair, sun loungers or using your own towel to relax, for sunbathing or read a book, you can also have a peaceful experience enjoying our plants and flowers during the spring/summer days and the sound of our water fountain. > You can also use the grill outside, just bring your charcoal and lighter. NOTE: To have access to the backyard, you need to use the back door exit in the kitchen and take the stairs down to the backyard that will lead you to the patio 🔹> To enter the building, we have a shared main door entrance with an electronic lock, we provide a passcode to each main guest to facilitate the access to the building during their stay, then there is a private entrance to enter the shared apartment, we provide an electronic passcode to enter the apartment and a key to unlock their private bedroom. > You will have access to 24/7 public transportation to go everywhere in our Cosmopolitan City; the 77 CTA bus stop is steps away from the house (you can transfer to other city buses, city trains, interstate trains, METRA, Amtrak, Airports, etc.) Uber or Lyft can pick you up in short time. Feel free to ask any question. ❇️ - We live in the property but in a different private unit, so we will definitely be available to meet you, help your check in, answer any questions or help with any information that you may need, give restaurant recommendations, dispensaries information, or just have a great conversation in any of our comfortable shared areas if you want! ❇️ - However, we respect your privacy and open to any interaction if you want. We will try our best to help you feel comfortable at all time. ❇️ - We expect that our guest(s) enjoy their stay in our home, also we expect that our guest(s) have a plan to visit our city, or a schedule of regular work or studies. Feel free to ask for any recommendations. 🌳🌷🌳 Our Neighborhood: Portage Park is a Beautiful, safe and quiet neighborhood (Chicago District) located in the middle of a very multicultural northwest side of the city. ✳️ As a guest or student, you will have access to 24-hour public transportation to go everywhere in our Cosmopolitan City; the 77 CTA bus stop is steps away from the house (you can transfer to other city buses, city trains, interstate trains and buses, METRA, Amtrak, Airports, etc.) Uber or Lyft can pick you up in short time. ✳️ - A great variety of stores where you can find products, fresh and international produces, in walking distance and 5 to 10 minutes driving around the neighborhood: > Cermak Fresh Market, Tony’s fines food, Carnicerías Jimenez, Dollar General, Walgreens, Walmart, Jewel-Osco, Target, ALDI, Binny’s Beverage Depot, etc. > Marshalls, Family Dollar, Home depot, CVS, Big Lots, Ross Dress for less, etc. > Hair salon & spa, Nails Salons, Vape Bar Smoke Shops, Barber & Beauty Salons, Tattoo Studios, Body Piercing Studio, Florist Shops, Auto Care Services, Gas Stations, Car wash, etc. 🍽️🍔🍕🍣🥗🌮🍖🌯🥢 ✳️ - Many restaurants close to the house in walking distance and 5 to 20 minutes driving around the neighborhood such as Mexican, Puerto Rican, Polish, Italian, Greek, Middle Eastern, Asian, American diners, etc. 🌲🌺🌲 - Two huge parks with an outdoor swimming pools and indoor in one of the parks, public library, gym (4 blocks from the house), one of the city colleges of Chicago, the mall, post office, banks, etc. ✳️ - There is a Hospital in the area with an emergency room for your convenience. (Community First Medical Center – 7 minutes away driving from the house). ✳️ - Dental offices. 🌳 We have very nice, friendly and multicultural neighbors on the block and you can take a walk around other neighborhoods and you can find gentle people and enjoy the view of different and beautiful houses and its beautiful gardens with beautiful flowers, trees and different seasonal decorations and festivities decorations. 🏋🏻‍♀️ The gym is located a walking distance (4 blocks away from the house). If you are interested, take advantage of their FREE 7 Days guest pass. 🔆 Our place is located in “Portage Park, Northwest Chicago Neighborhood”: 🚙 - § By driving a car: * 19+ minutes from O’Hare Airport * 25+ minutes to Downtown * 25+ minutes to Grant Park - Lollapalooza * 20+ minutes to Boystown - The Chicago LGBTQIA neighborhood Dinning/Bar/Discotheques * 10 - 15 minutes to Logan Square Dinning/Bar Hooping * 20+ minutes to Wrigley Field Stadium 🔹Time listed are non-rush hour driving time 🚌 🚊- §§ By using public transportation with your VENTRA card pass with unlimited rides: * 35+ minutes from O’Hare Airport * 38+ minutes to Downtown * 42+ minutes to Grant Park - Lollapalooza * 35+ minutes to Boystown - The Chicago LGBTQIA neighborhood Dinning/Bar/Discotheques * 20 - 25 minutes to Logan Square Dinning/Bar Hooping * 43+ minutes to Wrigley Field Stadium 🔹Time listed are non-rush hour driving time 🥎🏛️🏖️🎡🚢🎷🎭🎸🌆 * Chicago is a huge city to explore, if you want your stay to be memorable and exciting, here are some things to do: easy access to see a CUBS or SOX game, visit the different diverse neighborhoods for the street festivals, see our amazing architecture in downtown, ride the double Decker bus, visit ALL of our beautiful amazing museums, Millennium park which offers free concerts, the Art Institute of Chicago, take a stroll on the magnificent Michigan mile, Navy Pier, plays and operas, also take a walk, run, biking or sunbathe in our beautiful beaches in front of the blue lake Michigan. 🍽️🍕🍔🌮🍖🌯🥗🍣🥢 * Chicago is famous for its multicultural heritage, there are plenty of International and American restaurants around the city, we will gladly share some restaurants recommendations after you make your booking. 🍸🍷🎶💃🏽🥂🕺🏾🥃🍹🍺 * Want to continue the fun at night? There are lots of things to do such as dance clubs, lounges, bars, and movie theaters. 🌈🥂🌈 Boystown: The hearth of our Boystown is located 25 to 30 minutes (driving) east from our place and 35 to 45 minutes using public transportation (depending the traffic) you will enjoy and have access to many attractions such as: Steamworks Bath, Sidetrack, Roscoe’s, Hydrate and many bars, Night clubs, restaurants, etc. 🏳️‍🌈✨🎶🕺🏾✨💃🏽🍹✨🏳️‍🌈 * We recommend to enjoy the most multicultural & fun place of our LGBTQIA community: “Progress Bar (nightclub)” with great people & vibes, amazing drinks and music to dance. 🍀 After an exciting day in the city you can always come to a very comfortable home to relax in the backyard, take a nap, nice warm shower, read book or laid back and listen to music, or enjoy your 420 experience in any of our allowed indoor/outdoor areas, so you can start another exciting new day. 📚 We can provide visitors guides and city maps for free to explore the city. 🚍🚅 We suggest to buy a VENTRA (Public transportation) card in the Airport or at any CTA Line station or Walgreens store, for a weekend or for a whole week depending of your days of stay. Also we suggest to buy a CITY-PASS if you want to do a TOUR in Downtown and save money during your enjoyable stay to have access to the most popular and amazing places in the city for a reasonable price. ❇️* There are different dispensaries (medical & recreational marijuana) around the city, if you want, we can share some dispensaries recommendations after you make your booking. * For your convenience, we have placed an automatic hand sanitizer dispenser on the right side of our main entrance property. * And we have placed bottles of hand sanitizer on each apartment for your convenience. - These two rooms are located in the SECOND floor of our property. - We will be very happy to receive you in our comfortable home, please when you apply for our place, share a little about yourself, and if you come with another guest we would like to know about him/her as well, what brings you to visit Chicago? What will be your plans during your stay? And why or what made you chose our place? We are going to thank you. - Please, we would like to see a clear picture of you on your AIRBNB profile, so we can quickly know to identify you when you come to check into my home. Thank You. 🥾👠👟👢* Street shoes: - No street shoes inside of the house. Please bring your slippers, or grip socks or thick socks to wearing them inside of the house. - You can leave your street shoes in the shoe rack located in the 2nd floor in front of the apartment door. 🏋🏻‍♀️> The gym is located a walking distance (4 blocks away from the house). Your new 24–7 Majestic Fit Gym will be opening June 17th 2024! 🎥 * Surveillance Cameras: FYI we have surveillance video cameras outside of the house: in the front entrance, in the back entrance and patio (NOT INSIDE of the apartments or any rooms or private bedrooms), to bring more security to our guests and family members. ⏰ * * CHECK IN is at 3pm & CHECK OUT is at 12pm: - if you plan to check in early at an earlier time, or check out at a later time, please let us know in advance. We do not guarantee an early check in or an later check out if a previous or future guest scheduled their check in or check out respectively. - If you want to check in at an earlier time or check out at a later time we are going to charge $15 for every hour. Cash only. - this charge is to pay the “cleaning team” to do their job a little faster. ❇️ NOTE: early check-in or later check-out service, are depending of the previous reservation made in advance, or if other guests solicited in advance their early check-in or later check-out. However feel free to ask. 🎒🧳 * LUGGAGE DROP OFF: after check out at 12pm and if you need to drop off your luggage, no problem, you can place your luggage in a designated area that we’ll let you know. (With no additional cost). 💡 🟣💡🔵 * Don’t worry about the pink & blue lights located in the living room, we have an automatic schedule that turns on/off from 5pm to 2am approximately. 🔆 - Please be mindful that the common areas are shared, so maintain a clean environment. 🚪 - Always lock the main and apartment doors when you leave or entering the house. ♻️ RECYCLE & 🗑 GARBAGE: please to keep a healthy ambiance & free of pests, recycle and throw away your garbage with frequency. 🧺 - You will have access to the laundry, check our laundry guidelines in the house manual and contact me to plan your laundry date. ❇️ > Free Parking: We provide free permit parking passes for one car. For a second car there is an additional fee. Also, you can usually find free street parking around the block of the property.” Make sure to double check the signs before parking your car. 🗒️ - To facilitate your stay and make it more enjoyable, please read the signs with additional information and guides that are placed in different areas of the property (rooms, doors, cabinets, bathroom, etc.) Note: The lodging rate that we have is for medium term rent for guests who are spending more time outside of the house and exploring the city or have a regular work schedule of full time hours or studies. If your reservation is for more than 28 days and if you are working from home and/or spending more time at home during your reservation, there would be no problem if you are willing to pay an additional fee because of the constant use of energy. Feel free to ask any questions.