Slightly disappointing experience. Medium to small sized property. Disappointing location on main highway. Good double and tripped glazing but still fairly noisy to sleep, especially when local hoons decide to race outside your bedroom window at 2am for 3 nights out of the 7 we were there.
That brings us on the the area, let’s just say it’s questionable. Its an industrial / commercial spot with car garages and scrapyards around so not exactly a posh part of Sydney. Due to the location being so isolated by the roads I think it’s safe though every time you leave the house you are left wondering if your gear you’ve left behind will be there when you come back and when you go to bed your double and triple checking if the doors have been locked. At least it’s easy to drive from there, I guess that’s at least one positive of sleeping on a main highway!
On that note it’s very difficult to find the property and pretty sketchy trying to get into the drive, it’s a tiny drive on the edge of a main highway that doesn’t have a hard shoulder. When you drive past the first time you’ll probably miss it and you won’t believe that people are allowed to live in a location like that. If you do decide to stay here I’d recommend using hazard lights so you don’t get rear ended at 80kph by cars behind you.
On arrival at the property it’s a very basic affair outside but at least its clean. The house is a cheap build in a cheap neighbourhood. On entry the house is actually fairly nicely decorated and was left clean. However the toilet seat was broken on check in and the house was missing some basic cheap essentials you’d expect like kitchen ware and a bath mat. Indeed we bought these in order to be able to cook and left them behind. Not exactly bankrupting us spending $40 on some basic pans and a bath mat from k-mart, just annoying to have to do it ourselves and not have sorted on arrival. That kinda is the reason you go for an air bnb to begin with instead of a hotel so disappointing.
Finally the air conditioning was woeful and outdated. On full blast it didn’t cool the property down and was so loud you’d struggle to have a conversation.
The only major positives are the price wasn’t at the top end of the scale and the host was very accessible and great communicating with making checking in easy. I wouldn’t say definitely don’t stay here, especially if your trying to save money but just be aware that due to location, the quality of the property and lack of attention to detail it’s not what you’d expect from a super host property. I say this as a former air bnb super host. However for a budget bargain bin price for people in town not on holiday but for work and not needing to go into central Sydney you could make a case for staying here. Just be realistic about what your gonna be getting and ensure your not paying top dollar and you probably will be happy with what you get.