We stayed here with our 3 children and found the flat to have everything we needed- washing machine, microwave, Apple TV, amongst other things. The flat was reasonably clean, the kitchen was well knitted out and it was very quiet despite being on a main road. The location is brilliant with a bus stop right out front into the city. The beach is a small walk down the hill and we discovered the free bus that comes back up the hill and drops you outside the flat. This runs every hour on the half hour and we found very handy. Balmoral beach is fab and to be honest we could have spent all our holiday there. One day we got a bus from the beach to the ferry at Taronga Zoo, and nipped into the city that way. The day we were due to arrive the weather was absolutely foul. James kindly left out a bottle of wine and some cookies to soften the blow. He was very quick to answer messages and very helpful. I'd highly recommend his place and would stay again.