“Great location- views are superb.”
Apartment is bigger than we expected, though thought there was ensuite but just a tiny room for toilet. Clean enough, though feels it needs some love. Flickering light bulbs, definitely needs new mattresses and please just put a smart tv in so people can watch more than 4 channels! The entrance hall is dingy and quite often smelly with other tenants washing/wet shoes and quite yuck. Would be nice to have some staples in the house (milk, oil, sugar etc) as there was nothing but a bara brith and a couple of tea bags and we had to go straight out to buy things. The real issues for us (and we stayed 3 weeks) was the absolute lack of soundproofing for when people were staying in apartment underneath. Literally could hear every movement they made- snoring, talking, making cups of tea, noisy dog day and night, bathroom, use, you name it. Absolutely shocking and there’s no way it could meet any building code. I contacted Sykes about this and they basically said too bad, call police if it’s noisy, but it was just every day noise and no escape at night either, just sleepless nights trying to escape the snoring. Horrible. No way we would have booked to put up with that. Also had an unfortunate incident with the owner letting herself in whilst my daughter and I were sitting on the couch. No knocking at the door first, No quick exit, but she stood in the lounge room and tried to have a conversation instead. She had our check out day wrong and was very passive aggressive saying that she is the owner repeatedly without making sincere apology. Everyone makes mistakes, and a proper sorry would have been ok (still not great!) but to make me feel like it was our fault for feeling uncomfortable was not ok and really upset us. Again, Sykes said get over it basically. Terrible, and won’t be coming back. Too bad, as it could be lovely, especially with some sound proofing!!
