We arrived at Sydney airport around 7:30am, so we took a rideshare to the place. Because checkin wasn’t until 3pm, we used a bag service at the Frisco Hotel for $5/bag. It was just around the corner from our location! Perfect spot! We then walked to the free Art Museum, which was convenient to this apartment.
The view was beautiful! It can get noisy from the road traffic, and you’ll want to keep the curtain closed if you’re changing or at night, but the view is great. We came during winter, so the temperature was perfect inside.
I loved the little coffee that was available when we got there. They have an espresso machine that takes the little pods and milk froth machine to make nice coffees. There is also a tea kettle. The olive oil, salt and pepper was also appreciated as we made breakfast daily. They supplied dish soap too :)
There is a great grocery store just off of Kings Cross called Harris Farms. Wonderful produce! The street is a bit of a walk, and you’ll have lots of stairs getting there, but we loved walking it.
We walked daily through the royal botanical gardens to the Sydney Opera House, and Circular Quay. We definitely took advantage of the ferries costing only $2.70 on Sundays and took it to Manly Beach and Watson Bay. Watson Bay was our favorite with beautiful cliffs and if we had our binoculars, I’m sure we could have spotted some whales.
Vivid Sydney was going on, so at night the gardens were blocked off for pedestrians, but walking through the city and parks at night felt safe.
The bed is a queen size bed, and I was thankful that as the lighter of the two of us, I wasn’t constantly rolling towards my husband. We both slept really well!
They have DVDs to watch, but local programming is on satellite. It rained while we were here so the reception was splotchy. We did get to re-watch ET and The Proposal when we were relaxing.
We used the washer and dryer, and the dryer worked sporadically, and the madecomfy folks have been made aware.
All in all, if/when we return to Sydney we will be staying here again. It’s convenient location and comfort can’t be beat!