I find it interesting that you, as a newly sober person, would enjoy staying with someone who drinks heavily. I personally would never stay with a heavy drinker even for a couple weeks (or days), after years of sobriety. Is that the company you would find enriching and a positive change? I also vote for not going. I also live in a small NYC apartment and it is a zillion times better even locked in, in isolation, than with a drinking heavily mate even in some paradise.