Our Sydney Apartment

Our first place in Sydney has been a nice first-floor apartment in the small neighborhood of Clovelly, near the end of Thorpe Street, just a few steps to the cliffs of Gordon's Bay and up from the little town of Coogee. Trying to figure out where to stay before we arrived in Sydney was a challenge because we'd put off that decision for after our arrival in Tokyo. We discovered a website called Airbnb.com that Rowan had actually heard about while visiting San Francisco and because our standard fallback of Vacation Rentals by Owner did't have anything, we used Airbnb.

Given the lateness of deciding, we did not have a lot of choices and the one place that was downtown in a high-rise apartment complex sort of strung us along until we had to give up and cast our net wider.  We were glad we did because the CBD (Central Business District as they call the downtown Down Under) was too much of Just Another City and not fun enough (after we finally did see it). We're glad we chose this more folksy neighborhood because it was easy to get into the CBD with the excellent bus system of Sydney. The hotels are expensive and the exchange rate knocks off about 12% of our spending power (it used to be much better) so even the $964 (US Dollars) we spent for 8 nights here was a comparatively good deal. We could've spent much more.

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The lower part of this building is our place.

Front living room looking towards the kitchen (on the left) and front (blue door)

Kitchen (left) and Blue Front  

The Bedroom with hard-to-find queen-sized bed.Modern Bath with Step-In Shower Tub