Orwell Lodge — Local services in Sydney

I have been to this location a number of times and more recently for a longer stay of many months. This gave me a chance to see if legitimate concerns were ever addressed and if this was a short term problem. It is not, this is a chronic fraud and this proprietor sees no need in making anything right.||||The conditions here are deplorable, that is true. You are expecting to pay over $300/week (CASH) for a stay in a place that offers the following:||||Infestations of roaches, maggots, and other bugs running all over the place. I had bugs living under my sink that was not caulked at all, was loose, rusting and dropping rust bits all over the lower shelves. Bugs living in the furniture, they'd come out at night and jump into bed with you. ||||Repairs here are done by those who'd not even be called hobbyists and of course are done wrong and in a slipshod fashion, all in all not safe. ||||I'd not trust wiring, electrical switches that are worn out and not wired properly, they will sit and arc when on since they are 1/2 on and 1/2 off.||||Circuit breaker boxes are full of dead and live roaches making them a bug hut, since nothing is installed or wired right or sealed.||||Getting up one morning it as as though I had been mugged, bites all up and down my arms, on my feet. ||||You would see maggots running across the bathroom floors, roaches living in garbage in the common and shower areas.||||We were without hot water for weeks when a heater broke. After it was "fixed" we had no hot water all day, only at off hours like 4am. It was like this still many months later and to the point I left.||||Showers are not cleaned properly, they have debris and other gunk on the walls next to the toilet, glass shower doors just sitting off the tracks next to the wall and shower enclosure, useless. Some floors they are broke and have no shower heads with a sign telling us we need to use another floor for showers.||||Laundry is useless and has no hot water, cold water wash only. If there is any place you want to use hot water, it would be here at Orwell Lodge.||||Housekeeping seems to just run around all day seeing who is paying at the front desk, and then making a stink or talking to others so you have to stand at the top of the stairs waiting for them to get out of the way. ||||She just walked into my room without knocking on numerous occasions, once while I was standing there in my underwear and once while I was asleep. Completely odd.||||For rooms that remain dirty and baths that are also, it seems all they do is generate chemical stink for no reason that we all have to breathe and then abuse the fixtures and toilets by slamming them shut all day long. It is really put offish. Abuse.||||||The proprietor is way too pushy on offers we need to attend a church since she claims to be a Christian. She gets into personal attacks and offers she knows her customers (Who she has never met) better than we do. It really is abusive and this is the next problem. She seems to support violent harm to others and essentially says we are to blame and we need to get over it, in her opinion about things she has no witness of, she just says "so what?". That ends it for me. And should for you also.||||I'd call the proprietor at this point a felon and liar. AVOID this one...

I have been to this location a number of times and more recently for a longer stay of many months. This gave me a chance to see if legitimate concerns were ever addressed and if this was a short term problem. It is not, this is a chronic fraud and this proprietor sees no need in making anything right.||||The conditions here are deplorable, that is true. You are expecting to pay over $300/week (CASH) for a stay in a place that offers the following:||||Infestations of roaches, maggots, and other bugs running all over the place. I had bugs living under my sink that was not caulked at all, was loose, rusting and dropping rust bits all over the lower shelves. Bugs living in the furniture, they'd come out at night and jump into bed with you. ||||Repairs here are done by those who'd not even be called hobbyists and of course are done wrong and in a slipshod fashion, all in all not safe. ||||I'd not trust wiring, electrical switches that are worn out and not wired properly, they will sit and arc when on since they are 1/2 on and 1/2 off.||||Circuit breaker boxes are full of dead and live roaches making them a bug hut, since nothing is installed or wired right or sealed.||||Getting up one morning it as as though I had been mugged, bites all up and down my arms, on my feet. ||||You would see maggots running across the bathroom floors, roaches living in garbage in the common and shower areas.||||We were without hot water for weeks when a heater broke. After it was "fixed" we had no hot water all day, only at off hours like 4am. It was like this still many months later and to the point I left.||||Showers are not cleaned properly, they have debris and other gunk on the walls next to the toilet, glass shower doors just sitting off the tracks next to the wall and shower enclosure, useless. Some floors they are broke and have no shower heads with a sign telling us we need to use another floor for showers.||||Laundry is useless and has no hot water, cold water wash only. If there is any place you want to use hot water, it would be here at Orwell Lodge.||||Housekeeping seems to just run around all day seeing who is paying at the front desk, and then making a stink or talking to others so you have to stand at the top of the stairs waiting for them to get out of the way. ||||She just walked into my room without knocking on numerous occasions, once while I was standing there in my underwear and once while I was asleep. Completely odd.||||For rooms that remain dirty and baths that are also, it seems all they do is generate chemical stink for no reason that we all have to breathe and then abuse the fixtures and toilets by slamming them shut all day long. It is really put offish. Abuse.||||||The proprietor is way too pushy on offers we need to attend a church since she claims to be a Christian. She gets into personal attacks and offers she knows her customers (Who she has never met) better than we do. It really is abusive and this is the next problem. She seems to support violent harm to others and essentially says we are to blame and we need to get over it, in her opinion about things she has no witness of, she just says "so what?". That ends it for me. And should for you also.||||I'd call the proprietor at this point a felon and liar. AVOID this one...

Great Location, Amazing Roof Top Views - BEST PRICE!||||*Just to note Orwell Lodge Potts Point is not a hotel it is a Lodge, this means rooms are avaliable for 1, 3 or 6 months / longer.||||Due to previous issues in my old apartment I had to vacate and find/ move to a new place quickly, I called Orwell Lodge and luckily for me Louise the onsite manager picked up even though is was 7pm, being extremelly polite as Louise is she made a room avaliable for me that day, I moved in 3 hours later.||||I was only meant to stay there for 1 month, I ended up staying for 6 months.||||I thought having an onsite manager would put me off, but having Louise there made it more enjoyable and to be honest was probably the reason I stayed so long - she also doubles as secuirty and trust me Louise is more than capable of protecting Orwell Lodge and the lodgers staying there.||||Every room has a kitchenette and as far as I am aware most rooms share the communal bathrooms (this means toilet and shower in each) there is 3 on every floor and honestly I never had to wait for someone else there was always one for free.||It's a pity they havent updated the photos on the website because it really doesnt do it justice, most of the rooms have been been updated now and the Roof top is AMAZING - perfect harbour bridge and opera house views plus the whole city skyline, you couldn't ask for a better view - especially at the low weekly prices you'd pay at Orwell Lodge.||||There was a few times when I had money stolen out of my bank account and it was rent day, Louise was very accomodating and allowed me to pay once I had the money back in my account. I noticed on an old review something about german roaches, it's Potts Point unfortunatley theres not much you can do about that - in saying that I was always clean and never once had any bugs in my room - no bed bugs either lol what rubbish...||||I decided to move to Melbounre for work but I imagine if I didnt I'd probably be still living in Orwell...