The apartment was fine. Good location, and the interior was it appeared in the photos.
Two things were bad. Firstly, we popped out on our first day to get something down the road. We returned to find our "host" and a plumber leaving the apartment. He apologised, but we did not feel comfortable with him entering without asking us / letting us know - with our belongings etc inside. It did not seem appropriate.
The worst of it was that there was a terrible smell emitting from the ensuite bathroom - we narrowed it down to the drain. It got increasingly bad during the day and was so horrid that it impacted our ability to sleep in the bedroom. It wasn't just a damp or mildewy smell (Sydney has had a lot of rain) - it was fetid. On the morning we left we ran into the host in the street below and he asked us how our stay was. We told him about the smell and he said he had never noticed it and no-one else had complained. In other words - we were either making it up completely or exaggerating. In our opinion the smell was so bad the apartment should not have been available for rent. Host clearly did not give a !@#$.