Sadly, not a great experience for us.
Upon entering the residence, we were immediately presented with a "musty", "I've been closed for a long time" odour. You know the type of odour you get when you walk into an old house that hasn't been aired for a long period of time. Being a cold winters day, we just wanted to get inside and get warm but had to open all windows to remove the smell.
Ok, we'll have a nice hot shower to get warm instead... Turned on the "hot" water tap in the shower only to find the water VERY cold. Ok, let it run a while to allow hot water to go through pipes etc and reach the shower... NOPE... no such luck. Still dead cold after many minutes of letting the water run (tried the shower, bathroom sink and kitchen sink - no hot water in any of them).
Contacted the Host, who did get back to us quickly and went and checked mains circuits/switches and came back saying they are all ok and will have someone come out tomorrow to take a look. Which, unfortunately, when you are only staying for 1 night doesn't help us at all to have a warm/hot shower and get ready to go out for the evening... We were left with boiling a jug of water and using a cloth to quickly "sponge bath".
After all that, we go out for the evening and when we return, we find that 2 cars were also parked on the sides of the driveway to the house block. This apartment is a self-contained 1 bedroom contained within a larger dwelling. Luckily we drove my wife's "smaller" vehicle. If we had driven our Hilux (which we almost did), we would NOT have been able to maneuver between the other cars to this apartment's allocated parking spot.
The old saying, you get what you pay for is true I suppose in this case... Yes, it is cheap accommodation and it does have a great view over parts of the Tweed River and out to the ocean. The style and theme of the apartment are retro 60/70's, which is fine. But... even if you are keeping things to look "old" it doesn't mean that they should all BE old... with musty smells to tiles and fixtures in the bathroom being chipped and cracked, the laminated panels of some of the furniture are cracked, lifting and peeling, lots of cracked and chipped paint on walls/ceilings and around windows and frames, mold on outdoor cushions (from being left in the weather) combined with no hot water at all, meant we sadly did not enjoy our stay at this airbnb...