I’ve never given such a poor rating to any of my prior Airbnb stays but, as an Airbnb host myself, I feel that this apartment is so hugely misrepresented that I felt compelled to leave this evaluation to prevent other travelers from making the same mistake we made.
My wife and I stayed for 10 days in Sydney, the first 5 days in a hotel downtown and the other 5 we decided to have a different experience staying in an apartment. I must say the budget was approximately the same in both cases. The experience, however, was radically different. While the hotel was literally fabulous, the apartment was quite a disaster.
To begin with, this is not a real apartment. It’s more like a small hotel room. And when I say small, I mean really small. The pictures don’t let you appreciate how tiny the apartment really is. In the pictures it looks like it is a spacious loft, with 3 neatly separated areas. The reality, however, is that “living room”, bed and kitchen are crammed in very few square meters. To give you an idea, our hotel room downtown was around 50% larger than this so-called apartment. And for approximately the same price.
If you are travelling alone, this may work for you, but if you are travelling with your partner and are looking for an authentic apartment experience in a cool Sydney neighborhood, this is definitely not the place to go. Just a few examples:
-	The bed was super small (we barely fit in) and uncomfortable
-	The water heater was ultra-small. I’ve actually never seen a heater that small. If we showered one right after the other, the second one would run out of water in a couple of minutes.
-	There was no proper refrigerator, just a small minibar-type fridge
-	The wifi was not working half the time, which was a real problem for me because I had to do several morning videocalls with Europe
-	If you are planning to cook, you’d better forget it. The stove is ridiculous and there’s no oven
-	There’s no washing machine
-	There’s no AC installation
On top of everything, you don’t get the typical benefits of statying at a hotel, like late check-out or leaving your luggage in a storage room after check-out. Here check-out is at 10am (ridiculously early) and they are very strict. We requested to leave our luggage in the apartment until 12pm, but could only leave it until 11am as a “special favor”. After that we had to rent a storage room outside the building, which was quite inconvenient.
With this I’m not saying you should stay in a hotel instead of an apartment in Sydney. I’m just warning you to be careful and try to not get ripped off.