The apartment is in a great location with a cafe 2mins down the road if that and various fast food restaurants within 10mins of each other. The view from the balcony is quite nice and we were greeted by the neighbours cat daily which was adorable. The Yarra River and the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre are also within walking distance. Generally if you've travelled to Melbourne via public transport, you'll definitely be able to save a few dollars on Uber.
The bed and couch were quite comfortable. The washing machine works fine. The air conditioner and heater work very well. The water pressure in the shower was good, the shower head was a little awkward though.
We didn't really need to message the host much but when we did, they always responded within 1-2 hours.
Generally the apartment is alright but we did have a few problems with it. The vacuum head wouldn't attach to the vacuum cleaner which mean vacuuming a little annoying but we did our best to keep the place clean with it. The Foxtel setup appeared to be for show?? The light switch in the bathroom is a double switch and requires both switches for it to be on. The bathroom light starts off quite dull but will eventually get brighter. The dryer doesn't spin so it takes much longer to dry the clothes (and also requires the light switch on the right to still be turned on to work). There is a laundromat nearby but we wanted to save money when we could so we just dealt with the slow dryer. The radio is always on??? We did hit the off button but it would just turn itself back on which was quite odd. The TV switches from being quite dark back to being normal and will just keep switching between the two. The lock at the front door was quite touchy, it had to be on a very specific angle to be able to pull the key out. The balcony door doesn't lock or at least wouldn't close properly so that it could be locked. There were quite a few marks on the walls.
Checkin felt a bit weird as we had to go to an office (to get the keys) that was further away from the AirBnB by around 10mins, by the end of it we had spent $60 on Ubers even with walking some of the way.
Checkout was easy but probably equally as weird / awkward. All that was required of us was leaving the keys on the table and taking a photo of it for the host... then walking down 25 flights of stairs. If you're alone I definitely wouldn't recommend the AirBnB because the elevator requires the key / fob. the easiest thing for us to do was leaving one of us in the lobby with our luggage after taking it down the elevator with us, dealing with the key, locking the door then walking down the 25 flights of stairs haha.