Pros: Great location, 1 min drive to healesville, conveniently located between Yarra valley and dandenong. Host was nice to cook pho for us.
But honestly these are all the pros we could think of, and we felt we needed to be upfront about the cons. In fact, we were surprised that the previous reviews did not mention anything about the below issues.
Cons:
1. Complete lack of privacy - room door has no lock on it so you can’t lock your door, and the shared bathroom and toilet has only a latch lock so anyone can open the door slightly when you’re in the bathroom/toilet.
2. Curtains in the room (facing the backyard) were translucent so anyone in the backyard can look into the room through the full length windows. Yes, even when we are changing. This was rather disturbing for us as we never ever felt like we had any privacy. We didn’t voice out to the hosts as we felt that they probably couldn’t do anything about these issues. The doors were all built without any lock. We didn’t want to trouble the host to change out the entire curtain either. Not sure if they had any opaque curtains.
3. Frankly, the bed sheets and pillow cases were pretty dirty. There were dirt marks and black particles on the bed sheets and the blanket. We aren’t sure how clean they were or if they were just old. Bed wasn’t the most comfy. There’s an entire spring that was protruding out on the left side of the bed. My partner and I left the Airbnb with a minimum of 6 unknown insect bites each.
4. We don’t think that the home was Airbnb friendly. On top of the lack of privacy, there was also no space set aside for us. An example was that we didn’t even have a space to hang our towels or clothes in the shared bathroom - we had to put them on the sink. There was also no space for us to put our shampoo etc and we had to leave them on the shower floor. There was nothing in the room except for a bed and some old tables and chairs.
All in all, this might be ok if you’re looking just for a bed to crash on, but we strongly discourage females from staying here due to the lack of privacy.