The location is fantastic.
The view nice.
The apartment is OK, but it is a good price.
The hosts insist on communication outside of the app, paying a $200 deposit outside of the app, and sending them a copy of your photo ID. airbnb specifically tells people not to do this for our protection. They said I could cancel, but by the time I realised this, about 4 days before, it was too late for me to book something else suitable.
Other people have said they got the deposit back, so hopefully I will too.
I didn’t get the check in code until I arrived in Melbourne, which was after midnight. I was worried that I would not get the code at midnight and have nowhere to stay. Credit to them, they did talk to me at midnight, but that was stressful.
I did have to pay extra 10 minutes each way in a taxi to pick up the key.
Apparently they will meet you if it is a reasonable time of day.