Overall stay was alright. Some issues with the common area as the it seemed quite dusty and had stains on the sofa throw. The main issues we had were:
(1) communication with the host. Although they later explained that they were unable to respond as they were not within Australia, this issue could’ve easily been avoided either by notifying us of all the details and their lack of response BEFORE hand. Regardless however there shouldn’t be a reason as to why they are unable to respond promptly.
(2) parking. We paid $40 for S&S to book a parking spot for us for 2 nights and they claimed they had indeed booked it and provided us with all the details. When meeting with the girl who brought us up to our apartment, from my understanding we could’ve accessed the car park with our key card. HOWEVER on the day of, we were unable to access The car park using the keycard and we were fortunate enough security simply let us in. Exiting the car park, the morning after was again an issue and luckily enough another resident let us through. That evening I messaged the same lady about accessing the car park, she told me she’ll check and let me know later and then responded to me at 1129pm with “I have your card, sorry for the late reply, do you need it for today or tomorrow is fine?” in which I notified her we’ve returned our hired car already. The reason we are unhappy with this is essentially we’ve wasted the $40 we’ve paid for the car park since we were unable to access the car park ourselves and had to return the car the night before (meaning we could’ve simply booked the car park for 1 night) ONLY because we were unable to access The car park and did not wish to cop a fine the next morning when we can out exit the car park.
all in all, it was a bit of an eventful two days, however the apartment was located in a very convenient location that is right outside southern cross station, only 20-30min walk to the CBD and had quite a spectacular view (u can see the marvel stadium from ur window). other than the common areas, both the bathroom and bedroom were quite clean.