This is a spacious apartment in a lovely neighborhood, about ten minutes walk from Bondi Beach. Unfortunately, it's somewhat run down and in need of maintenance: the stove's gas rings don't all work and the doors are starting to fall off; the couch is stained and torn with legs falling off; there were broken lamps and various missing lightbulbs; a lot of non-working junk sitting around too. The bathroom is nice though, and the bedrooms comfortable. When we arrived there was only one old heater for the whole apartment -- which was freezing. The owners reimbursed us for a second one.

Communication with the hosts was mixed. On the one hand they did respond to our complaints about the cold and the poor state of the apartment when we arrived. But afterwards it took them four days to respond to the main door no longer opening -- and they responded with a complaint about how many emails we sent and told us we could leave if we didn't like it. At the end of our stay, the owners asked for $600 for a new TV: the old one was working fine when we left. When we asked for evidence of damage, there was no response.

All in all, our stay was OK, but the hosts' inhospitable attitude made our stay really stressful. We've used Airbnb a lot over the years and this was really the first time we've had problems.