This apartment is in a perfect location, it is literally a 100m from Greville street and 500m from chapel street. The area has so many great coffee shops, restaurants and bars it’s is a great location. The supermarket is also across the road.
It is also opposite a park which was great as we had the dog.
The apartment is nice but compact and it was very clean. It is very cluttered with the openers processions and there isn’t much room to put your belongings. I would suggest it’s more suited to a short stay where you wouldn’t have many belongings with you. We stayed two months so we were tripping over ourselves.
It’s also suited to those that want to eat out or get take away as the kitchen whilst exceptionally clean is very small to cook in.
The bed is very comfortable and we slept very well during our stay.
Many of the lights don’t work in the apartment which make it quite dark especially in the bedroom which has no natural light.
The shower is not properly attached to the wall, it pulls through a soap dish and falls through it all the time. I think that the host should have this attached to the wall. My husband is disabled and it found it quite hard to manage when it kept falling through the dish. The shower itself is powerful though and there is plenty of hot water.
The towels in the bathroom have seen better days.
The apartment is equipped with a washing machine which was great for a long stay as we could regularly wash our clothes. It also has an iron and ironing board which were very useful.
There is also a dishwasher but the owner said her belongings were delicate so she wanted everything washed by hand. I did this for the two months I stayed there but it was odd to have a machine and not to be able to use it. It was also inconvenient to wash everything by hand and there is such limited work too space it was also difficult.
There is a balcony but it’s not like a proper balcony. You can’t sit out in the sunshine but the top windows can be opened or the slats opened.
We had a massive storm come through whilst we were staying there and the water came through the window. Also this apartment is on the top floor and when it rains it sounds like the storm is in the apartment it’s so loud.
The lift to the apartment is also temperamental. It didn’t work on several occasions. My husband is in a wheel chair so we had to call the building manager several times to get the lift operational. The apartment is on the top floor (5th) and he literally couldn’t get back in.
The garage is a stacker. It’s very wobbly. I was scared at first but I soon got used to it.
Also a handy tip for people from overseas. We assumed (wrongly) that the price was in Australian dollars as the currency in Australia is the dollar but the price is actually in US dollars so the price ended up being a lot more than we thought it was. Please check this before you book.
All in all we had a good stay here, we didn’t have a car the first two weeks and the location was great when we had no access to a vehicle.