It is really close to both the Beach and Bondi restaurants and the staff is super friendly and you really do feel welcome and as a guest in someone else's big house, but to others reading this review I would probably categorize this more as a lodge than a hotel so you realize that what you get for the price you are paying is a spartan accommodation with quite a hard/stiff bed and no real AC though bathroom is really nice and modern.
After being woken up in bed by a 4+ cm cockroach crawling on my arm, which was not my first bug incident in the room, I decided to leave early and move to a real hotel close to the airport as I was going on a long haul flight the day after and didn't want to think about what kind of bug that would wake me up next.
I know bugs etc are part of the Australian fauna and to be expected, but the only close encounters I had with bugs in my bed during my 3.5 weeks in Australia at 15+ accommodations, including in the rainforest in the north of Australia, was here in Bondi so maybe I was just unlucky or very lucky during my trip.
Besides the above, I would appreciate better locks and doors to the rooms because if there were better locks I would feel like my stuff were secure and if the doors were better I would probably not have gotten unexpected visitors that easily as they wouldn't be able to crawl under the 1 cm gap under the door.