I made a booking at Cara's place for six friends that came from overseas to visit Melbourne.
Cara offered a nice, comfortable and well equipped place that was situated within a 10 minutes walk to many eateries (streets inside CBD, QV, Lygon st), supermarket (Woolworths in QV), shopping (Melbourne Central) and around 10 minutes to walk to the centre of the city which is where my friends joined their day tours.
I found Cara's service to be excellent, she provided detail instructions for check in which made the process run smoothly, as well as other useful information such as a video on how to convert the sofa to a bed and good eateries around the apartment. Her response to any queries was always prompt and would make an effort to accommodate any request that you made, in our case, my friends requested a late check out and I know Cara had to make some effort to reschedule her cleaners to accommodate this request, therefore I'm sure that future guest will be well looked after by Cara.
There are a few things to consider in regards to the apartment:
- It is located on level 1 of a heritage building, so there is a flight of stairs to walk up, and even within the apartment, there are more stairs that separate the living area from the bedrooms / bathroom, therefore it may not be so convenient if you are travelling with a lot of luggage or have elderly or babies with a pram.
- Although located on level 1 just off a main road (Victoria st), the apartment is very sound proof but does not block 100% of noise, eg. Ambulances, the occasional hoon.
- At the time of my friends stay, there was no washing machine in the apartment, the closest place for my friends to get their laundry done was a laundromat (Melbourne City Dry Cleaners) near the intersection of Russell st and Lonsdale st around a 5-8 minutes walk away.