1) Location - If you want easy access to Southern Cross Station, this is the best. The apartment is between Lonsdale Street and Little Bourke Street (accessible from both streets). Pick-up or dropping out with luggages is better on Little Bourke Street.
However, if you want to visit Queen Vic Market, you need to walk slightly more (a bit uphill) to Kings street to take the tram from there. If you have no issue with walking (especially uphill, then no issue).
2) Shopping - just take a short walk down Londsdale towards the intersection with Spencer Street and Coles (as well as an Asian supermarket) is just there. Spencer Outlet has more of the high street brands - depending on what you look for, some ppl enjoy it, some can't find anything)
3) The apartment itself - 3 bedrooms with 2 bathrooms. One bathroom is attached to one room, and the other bathroom is more on outside, to be shared. Plenty of cupboard storage and hangers to hang your stuff.
Each room has a heater (for winter) and a cooler (for summer).
Fitted with a washing machine and dryer (and detergent) makes it so convenient to do your laundry (and help to reduce the amount of clothing one needs to bring).
Kitchen fully equip with pots, pans, even a rice cooker (there were other equipments but I didn't use, so can't remember). Basic pantry stuff of cooking oil, salt, pepper. Dishwasher, built-in oven, microwave, toaster (but the toaster may need some cleaning...).. .a more than fully equip kitchen with everything you need. Pop over to Coles or Victoria Market to buy groceries and cook some of your meals at home.
4) We were a group of 7 (5 adults, 1 kid) but the place can easily sleep more because there was an extra mattress (with bed sheets, pillows, quilt) and the outside sofa converts into a bed (but you can only probably use that in summer because it gets really cold without a heater in the living room). But the space is big enough that everyone can find their own space. There is a balcony, but we didn't walk out
5) there is an indoor heated pool, and gym, but didn't get to enjoy. Comes with free parking too.
6) Areas for maybe make it even better than it already is... :-)... there aren't much because honestly, the place is better than most of our homes.
Would be nice if outside living room has a heater too (If there was one, we didn't find it). our work-around was to bring the portable heater from bedroom to the living room.
One of the heater, hard to adjust the temp.. gets quite hot, especially for the person slipping beside it.. Our work-around for one of the rooms (couldn't do it for other rooms coz no side window.. at least we couldn't find), open a side window a bit and the temp just nice.. however, if its windy.. it gets really noisy with the sound of the wind flowing through the window..
Definitely would stay here if I have a big group.