Location is very good, close to Cuba St.
There is no separation of living room or kitchen from main bedroom eg a door ie it is just one space with 3 joined areas. not ideal if renting for more than one person.
Check in was very stressful. The instructions were that the keys and pass would be left in the foyer but no further detail. The foyer is very dingy and the whole building has a ‘warehouse’ style, which may be deliberate, or maybe cost saving as it is over a multi storey car park. When we arrived there was just 50 or so rusty mail boxes. We guessed the keys would be in one but did not know which and did not want to start looking through them all as residents and or car park users passed us by. Unfortunately when you look at the address on the Airbnb app it does not show the apartment number. So we messaged, them phoned the host but had no response. After a nervous wait in the dingy foyer and trying the host again a few more times we eventually found that the Airbnb app would show the apartment number on the address if you went through a certain set of links, which allowed us to fin the right mailbox and key. A somewhat distressing experience that would have been avoided with clearer check in instructions or if the host had been contactable at a agreed check in time, 6pm.
From the host’s property description and other guests reviews it can clearly be seen the open shower causing the bathroom floor to stay wet all day is less than ideal. I think the host has added the comment, ‘ if it is a problem for you then don’t book’ to the property description since I booked some 6 months ago. But it might be more helpful to provide guests with the equipment and advice on how to deal with it. Eg most other properties I have stayed in with open showers provide a shower mop for guests.
Overall it’s not a bad place to stay, just not up to the same standard as the other 11 Airbnb’s we have stayed in this extended trip including many others in NZ inc Wellington. Hopefully my above constructive criticism will allow the host to improve the experience for future guests.