we stayed at marcs place in the italian forum for 12 nights from 28th jan 22.
we were visiting family in leichhardt so the location was perfect for us.
the apartment is as described and is very spacious and well equipped with everything you might need for your stay. its location on norton street is ideal with lots of restaurants , shops, supermarkets etc right on your doorstep.
buses for Sydney City centre pass along this street every few minutes and we used them and Uber a lot to get around all the time.
the apartment is on the 3rd floor however the flight path for sydney airport is directly overhead so expect a lot of noise from the planes and also from the traffic on the parramatta road very close by. this aspect did not bother us at all however.
the only issues we had with this apartment was that we had paid for Air Con and for the duration of our stay we had no working Air Con. we were in constant contact with Marc from day one and we were assured continuously by march that this would be resolved but up until we left on 9th February we had no working Air Con. On our very last day Marc confirmed that a repair guy could call late afternoon on the 8th feb but we were not in a position to wait for someone to call as we had plans for our last evening on our holiday with our family. we gave permission for the repair guy to go into the apartment in our absence but we do not know if this ever happened as we still had no working Air Con after that time. the weather at the start of our stay there was very hot but it did cool down but the issue is that we paid for working air con and did not ever have it regardless of what the weather was like outside.
there were also 4 patio chairs on the balcony and only one of those was safe and unbroken and again we reported this issue from the start of our trip. eventually on day ten the 3 broken chairs were removed and 2 replacement ones given to us.
one of the exterior shutter doors on the balcony is also broken and slats from same are sitting in a corner of the balcony. it looks unsightly and could easily be replaced/ repaired . we did report same to marc and he told us that he was aware of same.