Good things:
- the location was close enough to central London that transportation was easy (we tended to take the Thameslink to St Pancras, but also connected to the Tube at a different station)
- the house itself was very close to the train station
- Co-op also close by, and a kebab place was on the corner.
- Lockbox meant we could leave the key for each other without worrying that someone would accidentally walk off with it.
- The number of bedrooms was handy since we had a large group of people who needed single rooms.
- Milk and eggs and tea were left in the property for us to use.
- Host usually responded right away and never took more than 30 minutes, and also checked in with us to see that things were going well.
Not so good things:
- after we arrived, we were told by one of the hosts that at the end of our stay, we needed to completely strip all the beds and bring the linen to the ground floor, and do all the dishes and put them away, because this would 'help the cleaner'. We were also expected to bring in the bins (the host lived only 10 minutes away). We were surprised by these requests, as none of this was mentioned in the description and we paid a cleaning fee.
- While it may be important for the host to know precisely what time we are leaving the property, receiving a text at 620am about this was unpleasant. The checkout time was shown as 10am so we assumed that was not an issue. (There was an email sent late the previous night, but as it was to my business email account, I didn't receive it until the next morning.)
Overall a good stay.