This place is not suitable for travelers with a group of two or more. Unless you don't plan to be in the apartment or manage your trip on a single schedule this isn't for you. The host will only give you one key card which must be used to enter the building, access the elevators, use the amenities, get in and out of parking and go through any door.
If you're traveling for business do not stay here. THE WIFI IS FREAKING SLOW 750Kbps-1Mbps max.
That said some positives. The location details are accurate. South Yarra is great because you can walk up and down chapel street, bike by the river and take a bus straight to CBD.
Upon arriving our welcome packet had some tea bags, petroleum milk, one small plastic packet of dish soap and one packet for a single laundry load during a six day stay.
The check-in instructions come with multi-page warnings about all the different ways the host will charge you money if you break his rules versus welcoming you to lovely Melbourne.
The notice on the front door also says you'll be charged $2,500 if you open the front door of the apartment while cooking and the fire alarm goes off.
Unlike most hosts who actually try to provide travelers a lot of value for their money, this host is trying to squeeze every penny. It's just an ikea furnished apartment that is solely being rented out. In the "chef inspired kitchen" you'll find no mixing bowls, blunt Ikea knives that's are at least a couple years old, two tiny salt and pepper packets and one packet of dishsoap creating more and more plastic landfill waste. We even got a bit of pushback on asking for one additional roll of toilet paper for a 6 day stay. We never met Paul
And never actually spoke to him. Eventually, someone knocked on the door with a box of about 100 mixed packets of unknown chemical hotel soaps and shampoos, laundry detergent, and dishwashing detergent. That said he finally followed through on the amenities and gave us more toilet paper, some salt, pepper grinder and a bottle of olive oil. The next guests will hopefully get to fully enjoy them.
The air con needs to be replaced. We had the air conditioning on in the morning after we woke up, by the early afternoon there were black dust particles accumulating all over our clothes and the couch. There is no vacuum or brook so don't expect to be able to tidy up after yourself.
Perhaps this review will change Paul's tune about amenities, the threats of fines, reducing the plastic waste, and making sure he optimized to providing value instead of extracting value. He is basically just an absentee business owner running Complete Host apartments through Airbnb.
Perhaps this should just be on Booking.com and not Airbnb.