We just spent a month at James place in Ivanhoe till we found our own place as we’ve just moved to Melbourne from the UK.
A lovely little apartment with everything you could need, 2 minute walk to the train station to the CBD and with plenty of shops etc close by.
Check in was a disaster! The instructions that are left for you are useless and need rewritten. The process would be simple enough with better instructions! You will get 2 fobs to get you in and out of the building and for the car park, these fobs when used for the car park barely work you have to press them so many times. We couldn’t gain access to the car park after trying multiple times we rang James for assistance and he didn’t answer his phone! Thankfully a neighbor in the building kindly helped us and showed us how it worked!
Another problem was locating the bin room. On James instructions it says follow signs to the bin room ( there are no signs for the bin room) it also doesn’t tell you which floor it’s on. It’s actually located in the basement on B1 which took us a while to find!
When we eventually got in to the apartment the windows were filthy and the balcony covered in cob webs! The tv remote batteries were dead so we had to go out and buy our own. The sofa bed or what’s classed as a sofa bed is not something you could sleep on. The mattress is like a piece of paper with the springs sticking through there’s no possible way you could have a nights sleep on it!
Heidelberg road is VERY busy at all times of day it doesn’t stop! You can’t sit with the doors open and relax as the flow of traffic outside is relentless! The pictures of the apartment also show a nice view across Ivanhoe which is true when you look straight ahead, but when you look down it’s a very ugly building site right outside the balcony!
Overall after starting teething problems our stay was sufficient the apartment did what we needed it to do. We are avid travelers and have stayed in Air bnb’s all over the world and we both found this very impersonal, no communication from the host, no personal touches we were basically just left to get on with it on our own.