Good stay, good location, clean apartment, good air con

Inexpensive but tiny room with poor facilities and close up view of MacDonalds drive thru.

Check in smooth with friendly staff. Room on the small side

Room had a some sort of off smell, and it had not much option for microwave when I wanted to minimise eating out

Booked two rooms side by side for our family of 5 as we have 3 kids under 11. We received an email confirmation advising we had the two rooms requested which included bunk beds. When we arrived they only had 4 beds not 5 and no rooms together. Eventually a room with an extra bed was found after 30min. One of the rooms was clean and suitable the other had a broken bed head with screws sticking out. The fluorescent light tube next to the bed was dangling from the wall, the one where the TV was missing. The TV didn't work, the air conditioning turned off automatically in the middle of the night, the little fridge worked and we found a spider inside, the sink is outside the bathroom and toilet and the tap makes a horrible noise when you open it. When we asked about havi g someone look at the TV the attendant said she didn't know anything about it and she could move us to another floor further away from the rest of the family. Note there are only stairs. We noticed that there was 3 TV's in the hallway of out floor so there must be a few broken TV's. The location is great as it's close to the city and airport. Breakfast was not available and a tiny amount of coffee and tea was provided when asked. Daily service was also unavailable, we were told this was due to covid but we suspect it may have been due to the Christmas public holidays. The accommodation is in the middle of a 24hr McDonald and KFC which is convenient yet very noisy. My wife and daughter stayed in a room facing the McDonald's drive thru and it was very loud. I stayed in a room facing the KFC and the trucks coming and going woke us up. Overall our experience was disappointing we only stayed in the accommodation to sleep as we were visiting family. We've stayed in similar places before and never had so many issues. Families just want something clean and comfortable. It doesn't need to be fancy but things have to work and be comfortable. Based on our experience I would not recommend a family stay at this accommodation.

A pleasant budget experience. The external property and car park of the hotel are a mess though. It is obvious they receive little or no attention and have not done so for years. Accor, as a good corporate citizen, should clean them up, or get the property's landlord to do so. The current state of the property does not reflect well on Accor. Cheers, John 28/12/21

when in Sydney I always stay at Ibis St Peters

The room was what I expected from the Ibis chain - small but functional. The location isn't particularly scenic but it's convenient to Newtown shops/restaurants and public transport.

Easy and simple. No frills, just what you need for a short stay away from home

On the plus: Good mattress and bedding Negative: Kettle in room but no cups or tea / milk. Why bother? No glasses for drinking in room?? - walk down 2 flights of stairs, told reception, without a word he pivoted on his desk chair, reached behind an placed 2 cardboard takeaway coffee cups on the desk- job done. No compendium or sheet in room to let you know how, what and where. ( found wifi info taped to corridor wall)

Good

Staff was very helpful, the room was clean and the bed was comfortable so very good value for what I needed at the time. Bathroom a bit small as expected but shower water pressure was really good (but also wetting whole of bathroom area). Had to ask for remote for air conditioner which is a bit strange and also had to get a cup from reception (I guess that is a COVID management thing).

Facilities were fine for the cost. Reception was ridiculous. Shortened hours that were not communicated so that when I arrived it was very clear that I was an inconvenience to the on-call manager. He also had issues with they key producer so I was unable to have a key to my room which meant I couldn’t come and go from my room. It was only only overnight but a real inconvenience.

cheap, clean, quiet, nice. Apparently this review is required to be a minimum of 200 characters, and I still have almost a hundred to go, so I shall prattle on and on such until I reach the required number

Check-in was warm and pleasant. Staff interactions were always met with smiles and courtesy. The hotel was however very run down. The lamp under the tv had broken off years before and was tucked away under the TV and fell out on the first day when we grabbed the TV remote from its pocket. There were no toiletries, bar five sheets of toilet paper and a tiny bar of soap. We went and bought our own as reception is shut almost all of the time. Two flat pillows were provided, but staff provided more on the second day upon request. The AC never worked. Seemed it was on a timer to save energy or had a faulty fuse. It turned itself off after 20 minutes on the first day and never turned back on for the remaining three nights. No privacy with the windows opening straight up to the KFC drive-thru on ground floor. Couldn't leave the window open for fresh air for fear our stuff could be stolen by someone reaching in. Curtain was left drawn the whole stay. Bathroom was smaller than a cruise ship cabin bathroom. Toilet saturated when having a shower and nowhere to put the toiletries we purchased. No hand towels are provided, so had to walk backwards and forwards from sink to bathroom where towels hung. Housekeeping commence around 6am, so you are woken each morning by vacuums and slamming doors. If that didn't wake you up, the crows outside fighting over leftover KFC or McDonald's did. The hotel was sandwiched between the KFC and McDonald's, with access to the hotel via the KFC drive-thru. I honestly should have looked online for Street view before booking. The door to the shower was mouldy and severely water damaged. It looked like it was made of MDF, which swells up when wet. Not the most ideal or hygienic door for a shower. The fruit flies throughout the room and the marks on walls and a build-up of dust were the last straw. We understand that this was not a premium service, and I've noticed the manager's usual response is to stay somewhere else to similar reviews. However the basics were not even closely met, therefore this stay didn't even meet the basics promised.