We stayed in this property for four nights in early March. As a bit of background, the property appears to be the back end of a townhouse separated from the front section by a locked internal door. I suspect that the front part is also an AirBNB property and I only mention it because at times we could often hear noise coming from behind the door (either a loud TV or radio).

Whilst the property has a number of great characteristics, including its location been extremely close/walking distance to shops, cafes and restaurants; off street parking; and an easy check-in/check-out process, there are a few things that prospective guests should be aware of.

The first is that the split system air conditioning unit is inadequate as it does not cool down the bedrooms, which are located upstairs amongst vaulted ceilings which trap in the heat. Further, the air conditioning unit has some sort of timer so that it will turn off in under two hours (we mentioned it to the host who tried said it was an environmental ‘feature’). To compensate, the hosts have installed loud portable air conditioning units in the bedrooms, however they are located in the place of bedside tables. This leaves you with a choice at night to either run a loud portable air conditioning unit next to your head or sleep in a hot bedroom – both options are less than desirable. Yes, there are ceiling fans however they do little to cool down the rooms after a hot day (noting that it was hard to cool down due to the split system air conditioner running only two hours at a time). And yes you can open a bedroom window – however as the property is located opposite the car park of a supermarket, you’ll be greeted to the sound of delivery and garbage trucks coming and going in the morning.

Whilst on the topic of the supermarket, when we checked in we were greeted with a message along the lines of “due to current shortages, the hosts was unable to provide any toilet paper”. When we popped around to the supermarket later that day, directly across the road from the property the toilet roll aisle was well stocked without any visible sign of an actual shortage. This along with the air conditioner issues, left us with the feeling that the host was opportunistically trying to cut corners to save money.

The two bedrooms are very small, with no room for bedside tables beside the beds (in their place on one side is the aforementioned portable air conditioning units). These are cut out in the photos on the listing.
There is a bed side table in the master bedroom, however it is in the back corner of the room and the lamp atop of it is not plugged into the wall, nor can it reach an electrical socket, making it purely decorative unless you put it on the floor beside the bed. Due to space limitations, there are no wardrobes in either of the bedrooms. There is one small free standing wardrobe in the hallway outside the two bedrooms. So we were unable to unpack our bags to live comfortably.

Lastly we did find several small pieces of broken glass on the floor around the sofa that could have caused injury if we did not spot it – suspect it is more a result of the prior guests/cleaning crew doing a poor clean up job.