Not really a B&B atmosphere, more a student house. The shared bathroom makes a poor impression : dated shower curtain, worn-out lino, cracks in bath and sink. House rule : no shoes in the house, slippers are provided. But the floors were still dirty, hence so were our bare feet. Our room type : 1 queen-size bed and 1 sofa-bed. No air conditioning, but a portable fan. Breakfast : in a small kitchen on the first floor. Limited choice and you have to do the dishes yourself (without kitchen towels however). Yoghurt was not cooled. Fruit available but not enough for everybody. Coffee is not refilled once empty. No milk available for our little daughter. Places tot eat nearby : none, it’s a residential area. Private parking space in the back with surcharge. Only advantage is the price.

My wife and I enjoyed our week at Havinn. It was fine. We drove up to Toronto from Illinois for our son's wedding and were grateful to find a place like Havinn (so close to downtown) with free breakfast and speed wi-fi incl. Worry-free parking very cheap. For price and location (with lots of trees around but so near to downtown), you really can't beat this B&B. We saved plenty of money compared to the big downtown hotels and liked the homey family style atomsphere.

B&B just a block away from the TTC, but since we like short walks, we just set off down Spadina to the restaurants and shopping. Everything convenient to TTC subway and trolley cars; it's really crazy and unnecessary to use a car. There are many different eating places close by, but make sure you try the Chinese steamed and stuffed bowza (sp?) with a bowl of sweet and sour soup. It makes a real good lunch.

Gary the innkeeper and his wife Emiko were very nice to us. I don't understand the negativity. Everything we asked for like extra towels and pillows, Gary provided. The breakfast was quite adequate. We enjoyed the self-serve and homey family style atmosphere. We slept well. We ate well. It was friendly and comfortable. We parked our big van right in the back yard. And the price for the week was a bargain. If our second son ever gets married to Canadian from Toronto, we'll be back! LOL

I have been to a few other B & B's before and they were great, but this place was disgusting. When you walk in, it is very dark and creepy and there is no tasteful decoration at all. It is in kind of a bad neighbourhood. The host isn't overly friendly and when talking to him it is kind of awkward. Our room had no sense of decoration what so ever. There was a piece of food on the floor with hundreds of ants surrounded around this food (disgusting). There were dirty towels in our closet. We weren't given enough towels and only 1 washcloth for 2 people. There is no air conditioning so it is very hot in there. The bed didn't seem to be clean and had hair and bugs in it. We had to share a bathroom with everyone else that wasn't clean and the only shampoo and soap were little bottles that look like they had taken from other hotels (that everyone was using). The breakfast was not what you are supposed to get when staying at a B & B. It had been sitting out in the dirty kitchen for hours and was only rotten fruit, hard cinnamon buns and danishes. There was some peanut butter, nutella and jam sitting out still in their same containers from the store. There was warm juice and you were asked to make your own pot of coffee. The WORST part is that you were required to wash your own dishes. That likely violates a health code. I have stayed at other B & B's and paid the same price and it was way better than this place. Overall, I was very unhappy and felt itchy when I left.

This place is on of the most pleasant B&B hotel that i ever vivited in my trips!It is clean,good located and very comfortable.But also i will say that one best think is the nice and very human owner of this hotel!!Because i'm trying a lot and i like always to be in contact with the locos and take informations about the city who i am,this man gived me a lot of this.In some other simular B&B somebody must try a lot to find good human contact as i had in Havinn.