I am disappointed to not be able to write a fully positive review, but there are a few deal breakers for me that I can not ignore. But first, the positives:
Pros: Location is brilliant, perfect size for a small family of four traveling on a budget, clean bathroom and kitchen, mostly quiet, felt safe in the neighborhood, staff was friendly and quick to communicate about lights that didn’t work (technician had to come and replace a fuse, dryer that we couldn’t open)
Cons: building smells extremely musty (all four of us woke up congested the whole stay there) and (Major red flag) there were bugs in the sheets. Black, quick crawling bugs that squished out bright red blood when smashed. Didn’t fly, or look like the typical striped bed bug we found in online images. Both my daughters were covered with itchy bites by the time we left London after five nights. I am fearful that we may have hitchhikers with us and we will be doing a full wash and hot dry of all our items before anything will come back in our own home after this trip.
I did not address this issue with our host as I didn’t realize how bad it was until we were almost done with the trip. Trouble is, even if we had moved to another location, we were already exposed to the buggers.
I have had only positive experiences with Airbnb properties over 4-5 years so I am sorry to have to say negative things about this property. However, in my opinion, it needs to be fumigated and fully cleaned before it should be rented again.