This little apartment in St Kilda is really cute, with a lovely location and a small terrace at front. Unfortunately we found the place both pretty worn down and dirty. The first part wouldn’t matter too much if the second part was ok, but this is by far the dirtiest Airbnb experience we’ve had (and I’ve been using airbnb a lot). The floor is swept over and beds made, and bathroom pretty cleaned on the surface, but the rest doesn’t look like it’s been cleaned for ages.
Also getting a hold of the host through Airbnb was almost impossible, as we tried to get a later check-out and never got a response on that request.
The apartment is also next to a pretty noisy street with cars running all day and partly during the night, so not exactly a quiet street as it says in the ad. And the small heater that we had to fix ourself with duck tape produced hardly any heat during some really cold days in Melbourne. Overall just a lot of small things that we tried to overlook but in the end could not as it was just adding up.
Hate being so negative as the apartment has such a great potential, and good location- but need to be honest as we find the other reviews to be way more positive than we think it was worth. Hopefully host will take some of our advices and this apartment can become a gem.
Fingers crossed :)