Check-in is 3-5 with the ‘Keyholder Partner’ or you need to make arrangements if you are ‘running late’. Check-in went fine but perhaps the instructions could be included in the description as it is not clear when you make the booking and he does not welcome questions about it (he has 70 properties and warns that any text message will be met with ‘Who? What? Where?’)
The apartment looks newly renovated but done on the cheap. It is one of two which have been divided off a garage. The other loft apartment is adjacent and above. You can hear every footstep and people talking above you. There is only one small window which opens. Or you can leave the door open, but it gets full afternoon sun. And no fly screens. The door faces out over the veg garden which is a nice outlook. You are not invited to sit in the garden in the shade, but there is a table and chair by the door. The mattress is hard with only sheets and a doona. Using just the sheet gets cold in the morning. And the doona is too hot for summer. The ‘step in’ shower is very small with the shower curtain clinging to you. The bathroom is really just a toilet with a shower cubicle dropped in. And the basin is in the main room which also doubles as the sink. No A/C and only a small floor fan.
P.S. the owner did bring an additional fan but could not offer alternative bedding. And he wanted me to show proof what day I was checking out
Just as noisy as a motel, but not as comfortable. 3 stars