Great location…..BUT……
This nice old terrace house is literally just around the corner from Stanley Street’s restaurants, cafes and bus stop to the city. And just a short uphill stroll to Oxford and Crown Streets’ cafes and bars. However there is clearly minimum effort invested to make the house comfortable for guests, and what is done is obviously with cheapest option in mind. The house is in need of some maintenance with a sense of disrepair and lack of expenditure or effort to make it what it could be. The queen bed was rock hard and we actually had to check that it was in fact a mattress and not just a base. We had to sleep on the lounge cushions from downstairs on top of it to make it bearable. The single beds were ok though. One of the bathrooms was unusable due to a terrible sewage stench emanating from the drain, and the door had to be kept closed throughout our stay. There was no soap or hand wash provided at any sink and we had to go buy our own. There were however tiny cheap tubes of shower gel and a shampoo/conditioner mix provided. Tea/coffee basics comprised about 3 teaspoons of instant coffee remaining in a tiny jar and four lemon and ginger teabags in an open box. These looked to have been left by the previous guest - but maybe were what was provided for us? No sugar or milk or salt/pepper. All in all a good location and house to experience living in an inner city Darlinghurst terrace, but unfortunately done on the cheap and without any real concern for the comfort of guests. The professional photos are nothing like what it’s really like. It looks enormous and expensively furnished but it’s far from that. Reality is half the apparent size. We have Airbnb’d all over the world and don’t leave negative reviews. But this property and host do need a bit of a reminder of what paying guests expect and deserve.