Overall the place looked tidy and clean with everything we need. Aircon was a definite plus.
The location was great and a good walk to nearby eateries and cafe.
Checkin was seamless and easy.
When we arrived there were some ants on one of the spare toilet rolls. We weren’t too worried as Ian provided enough for our 3 day stay.
On the second day when we arrived back home at night we found a big cockroach on the floor. We were unable to catch it. When we looked around we noticed a few baby cockroaches around. They had gone through our luggage that was in the floor. We had no food in the luggage and we had done no cooking in the studio. We spent that night on Christmas Eve to get rid of these roaches. The following day we luckily found a 24hour laundromat to wash our clothing.
The next night when we arrived back home we found more cockroaches. Again, a large one and some baby ones. We spent another night dealing with this.
This situation made our stay very uncomfortable and we lost a lot of sleep and time over it.
We understand that there are a lot of cockroaches during this time in Sydney, but I believe with good prior pest control it could have been avoided.
We contacted Ian to let him know after our short stay as we didn’t want to interrupt his Christmas Day, however we didn’t receive any apology or compensation.
It is a shame that this happened as the place was overall a lovely place and good location.