There was 3 of us, and we spendt a week. A grown couple who used the bed-room, and a 15 year old who slept on the sofa-bed in the living room.
Good things first:
Sabine was really easy to reach by the airbnb-app, both before and under the stay.
We found the area the apartment is close to, really nice. The apartment is not "on the street" of this, but really close by. Therefore it is not very noisy at night. Just kids playing, (when do they go to bed?) or one or two occasional people walking home from the bars.
The WiFi worked perfectly,and so did the kitchen equipment. The bed was nice. Also the sofa-bed in the livingroom.
We must also say that despite the impression the building gave us when we arrived, we felt safe. It looks kind of like a public housing project. And when we saw the iron-grilled gate in front of the apartment-door, we felt really unsure about it all. But like I said,- during the week we became used to it, and felt safe.
The pigeons on the balcony (as many have written about) is taken care of by a net, and we did not see a bird all week.
Then,- what we found not so good ?
The apartment lookes really old and worn down, and therefore hard to make look clean. When we came, it did not seem as if anyone had tried very hard. The windows was grey and every surface was a bit dirty. We started the visit with a superficial cleaning.
On of us is allergic, and reacted to the carpet in the bedroom. Woke up every morning with swollen eyes. When me made the sofabed, we had to pull it out from the wall. Something the cleaner had not done. Not for a long time.
A chair was broken, but placed by the table so that we did not see before we moved it (Maybe the cleaner had not). Even if the pigeon-problem is taken care of, the balcony is not very welcomming. No funiture, some old stuff stashed there ,and the railing had a lot of something that looked like old greetings from the birds.
OK. London is a bit difficult when it comes to what to expect from an apartment. And also expensive. I don't think we had too high expectations, and could have lived with the apartment, if it had been clean and if the balcony had been anywhere close to the nice one we saw in the ad. But sorry,- we where not to happy this time.