Great spot if you are keen to do a lot of eating and drinking! Nice walk to heaps of great restaurants, the Wellington night market and some great little shops. Not too far a walk to Lambton Quay for shopping and to enjoy the waterfront.
The apartment itself was okay. Very basic and nothing outstanding. Possibly we’ve been spoiled by previous AirBnB stays but there were none of those little touches that make a place feel special and like you want to return.
It was clean but felt kind of cluttered with various cleaning things stacked under the staircase, a ladder on the balcony along with three coffee tables but no chairs. Which was fine because there were regular wafts of smoke coming up from the underneath apartment anyway - not an issue if you don’t mind it but with a young baby it wasn’t ideal especially as it was as very stuffy the day we arrived and we wanted to open the doors/louvre windows to air it out a bit.
It wasn’t very hot weather for our stay but the upstairs bedroom really retains the heat. Even with the roof windows open and the cooler on we couldn’t get comfortable at night. Our baby was in the bottom bedroom which was much more tolerable if we left the cooling on most of the time.
James was a very helpful, courteous host and went out of his way to access a portacot for us. I’d recommend him as a host however the apartment itself wasn’t really what we were expecting for the price. Parties on the Friday and Saturday night didn’t help which maybe we should have expected if we’d known the area better when we booked.