I realized that there would be no AC and were prepared for things to be a little uncomfortable. But this house seems to be purpose-built to trap the heat. There is almost no cross ventilation and no ceiling fans, just a few desktop fans. Several windows face the sun and have no curtains or blinds. The only bathroom has a huge skylight and an unshielded window (I recorded a bathroom temp. of 100 degrees F. at 9:30 a.m.) Plus the mosquitoes and spiders and roaches! The house has no screens. Even on a relatively temperate day, the house is amazingly hot. We finally gave up and abandoned the property, spending two nights at a hotel instead.
You can roll the dice and hope for great weather while you’re here. But we had to spend hundreds of dollars in hotel bills in order to not have a ruinous Sydney experience.