The room is small but enough for 2 people. The kitchen was completely bare, it only had a small milk box but no coffee or tea to go with? The owners clearly don’t care much for the customer experience as the furniture was dated and a little damaged, there was only 1 wine glass in the kitchen, and odd amounts of other things like mugs, glasses and cutlery, clearly being broken/stolen in the past and not replaced. The apartment was quite clean and bathroom was nice, the view was pretty unreal, it’s high up enough that you can leave the blinds open without worrying about people seeing you. There’s no extra blankets or towels in the entire apartment, you only get what’s supplied.
We stayed on the first weekend of Melbourne’s lockdown ending so the city was pretty wild. The apartment building had 3-4 different groups of people yelling all through the night, jumping around above and besides us. With all those people drinking and stuff around us, it made my partner especially but me also quite uneasy. The way the door works doesn’t give you a lot of confidence that it’s locked because the inside handle is always unlocked, so to test the lock, you have to do it from the outside handle, meaning you need to open the door, which wasn’t ideal as the people across the hall’s party had spilled into the hallway so we didn’t really want to open the door. There’s also no clear security monitoring the building so it didn’t feel very safe.
I’m a heavy sleeper so despite the noise I slept fine, but my partner was up and uneasy throughout the night. There were people screaming out the window from a couple of floors up at 1:30 in the morning. We woke up to vomit near the bedroom window sill and used tissues and balloons at the lounge room window sill.
Overall with the cleanliness of the apartment and the view, the experience wasn’t terrible but will definitely be staying in a regular hotel in the future. We probably got a bad weekend and I’m not sure every weekend would be like that. There were condom packets and used drinking cans/bottles in the foyer when we were leaving.
If you’re after a good view, go for it. But you’ll get a much better experience for a similar price at Crown or some other hotels.