The good side is that it was a great location: close to the CBD, theatres museums etc. Also very close to the womderful Lygon St.
Mistake number one I made was not to be suspicious when there are no photos of the apartment on the Airbnb site.
It was an unpleasant bed-sitter with no real living area in the room, It had dubious security wth a large window that looked straight out onto an outdoors corridor and could easily be broken into. if the blind wasn’t shut there would be no privacy. The building was in a large bed-sitter complex which was dated. The water went off during the day that I was there in the middle of using the laundrette.
All the fittings were very worn, dating back to the 1980’s. For example: water damage around the kitchenette and exposed light fittings in the washing sink area. There really had been no attempt at renovations at all.
Unpleasant syntheic scratchy linen - something you might expect from a back packers.
It was right next to the building’s coin-op laundry which was noisy and emitted a constant backgound hum in the room.
To be fair there was nothing wrong with electronic goods - the TV and Wifi.
I booked the room for two nights and it cost me $194 AUD. If it had been ½ the price I wouldn’t bother complaining - but then again I wouldn’t have chosen to stay there.
All-in-all I felt ripped off.