We crashed at Gavin's place a night before catching our flight back from Dublin. We picked this location, because it is super close to the airport - 10 mins drive.
After sending the confirmation request, just the night before, we couldn't communicate properly because it was quite late. In the middle of the night we received couple of messages from him by saying that he wasn't able to check us in before 10pm. Flexibility in cancellation was obviously given to us. So, the day after we texted and, despite he was at work, he replied quickly. Later he informed us he would be home, ready to meet us a bit later, just extra 25 minutes. In the end it was fine for us because we couldn't be there before 10 pm anyway.
Gavin welcomed us to the house and showed us our room. It was quite late, we had to organize our suitcases and get up early, so we didn't really have time to talk.
Our room was next to Gavin's, so I hope we didn't bother them with constantly zipping and unzipping our suitcases. We tried to whisper, as walls are pretty thin, so sorry if we kept you guys awake, we really tried to keep it low. ;-)
The house is clean, though a bit empty - looked like they recently moved in. Anyway we just had access to our room upstairs and that's all.
I'd say a few things would make future guests' stay more comfortable. They are details, really, but it helps tremendously when you travel - a few hangers in the closet, a few more hooks in the bathroom (and a hairdryer - maybe there's one, but we didn't find it and didn't want to bother Gavin or his wife as it was really late) and a trash bin (either in the bathroom or bedroom).
Overall, it was a good experience. Oh, and Gavin helped us a lot - he printed our boarding passes for us! That was big help for us!!!