Okay, please read this before considering to stay at Laura's place. The photos indeed make the place look amazing but all isn't what it seems.
The short version:
-Construction on both sides of the flat, which is not going to end any time soon.
-Toilet smells of sewerage
-The whole place stinks of stale smoke.
-Lara completely ignored all of our messages. We ended up leaving the flat after a night and she has refused (or rather not responded to any messages) to refund any money.
The longer version.
We booked to stay here last weekend, and Laura was fairly good at communication before arriving. However, we did query the construction which was mentioned in another review, but Laura feined that she didn't know much about this...(I doubt it). But there is extensive construction on BOTH sides of the apartment, and this will be going on for at least the NEXT YEAR, guaranteed. So don't stay if you want to sleep in. But we have 4 year old so getting up early wasn't too much of an issue as we get woken up early anyway, the place just looked great in the pictures.
The main problem was that the whole flat stank, of stale smoke, everywhere. It smelled strong. Which isn't appropriate with a 4 year old, furthermore there was a constant smell of sewerage in the bathroom. We reported this within hours of arriving and were ignored. We informed Laura that we wouldn't be able to stay the reasons why, and we went ahead and booked a new place for the second night. I then called Laura the next day, she never responded and I left a message... Well you get the point. She hasn't bothered to reply, and has refused to give our money back, so we are down a few hundred pounds.
I appreciate that once you have a problem with a place you do start to notice everything... So here are some issues, the whole place needs some TLC, the bath room is not nice, there isn't even a shower curtain so water gets everywhere. Kitchen is old, and cork screw is broken (that was the last straw! :-), the rest of the flat is so so. But the outside area is indeed incredible... yet, there is construction constantly during daylight hours so you can't enjoy it, unless you like that sort of thing. The location alright, but there are much better locations to stay.
Anyway, if you do decide to stay, don't say you weren't warned. Gracias!