Avoid at all costs!
I don’t usually write reviews, but due to our overall experience, need to warn others off staying here!
Prior to arrival, we had discussed with the host having access to the property early, as we had an event that day (early access was approved).
Upon arrival, we contacted the host several times to let her know we had arrived and she said cleaners were just finishing up and that someone would be down “in one sec” to let us in.
25 minutes after arriving, a man came down and gave us the key.
Upon stepping out of the lift, we were greeted with an overwhelming smell of cigarettes. Entering the apartment, the first thing we noticed was a clothes air dryer on the balcony, with what we assume was the hosts’ personal items hanging out to dry.
After doing a quick search of the apartment before getting ready for our event, we realised there were no towels so contacted the host. She said they were hanging on the clothes air dryer on the balcony (with the other personal items, including underpants).
It had been heavily raining that morning and as we took the towels off the clothes horse, we realised they were not only dripping wet (to the point of having to wring them out), but also marked with black stains. *To note - we had indicated 4 guests staying and there were only 2 wet towels available!
We opened the dryer to dry the towels and again, it was full of personal items (tshirts, socks and underpants).
We also went to set up the additional “sofa bed” and realised the thin couch in the loungeroom wasn’t a fold out. We contacted the host once again and she advised to take the pillows off the couch, and pull the single mattress out from underneath the bed and put them together - two different heights!
Other things to note:
Rubbish left from previous guest or host in garbage bin.
Leftover food in fridge.
“Amenities” in the shower were pretty much empty bottles of random items.
Slippers left in lounge-room.
The apartment itself did not feel clean. We ended up sleeping on top of the sheets in the bed as we couldn’t be sure they were clean sheets - this was the impression we got from the overall feel of the apartment.