ALERT!!!!!!
UNSAFE FLAT.
NO PRIVACY AT ALL.
BAD MANNER HOST.
LOUD NOICE FROM UPSTAIRS.
WORST AIRBNB EXPERIENCE IN MY LIFETIME!!!!
Living in James' flat was the start of my NIGHTMARE in London.
I was travelling alone for the first time in London, and I booked 7 days in his flat.
The first day when I arrived at London, I was ROBBED only 50 METERS away from his flat.
I was walking with a big suitcase from the bus stop to his flat and a black guy just robbed my phone and ran away when I was checking the address of the flat with google map.
It was 21:00 in the evening. Though the area was not far from London bridge, but the street is quite and dangeous in the evening, especially for single girls.
While being robbed was a bad start of my London trip, living with James was a real torture and he totally ruined my holiday.
Since I was robbed the first day, I felt really scared and didn't even dare to go out in the evening, so the third day, my friend visited me to gave me a company. I texted James to tell him via airbnb, but he might miss the message. So that night when my friend and I apeared in the bathroom washing up, he was a bit angry.
I did felt very sorry about taking my friend in and use the hair dryer in the midnight (my room was in the opposite of the corridor far from the room he lived in, so I really thought he won't hear it). That's why next morning, I wrote several messages to him to appologize for using the hair dryer in the night and waking him up, and I put 15 pounds on the kitchen table to pay for the money he said for an extra guest.
I did mean to appologize at that moment. But what he did was soooooo terrible afterwards. He broke into my room when I was away to Cambridge, took a photo of the bedroom and blamed me making his room a mess. and then he complained he couldn't come into the bedroom I lived in to fetch his clothes the last day only because I left late in the morning.Then he just let me moved out very unpolitely and refused to give me refund.
EXCUSE ME???? I rent the room for 66 euro a day and I didn't make his room a mess at all. All the closet in his room are filled with his personal staffs, so I just put some of my staff on the floor and some cosmetics on the table.
I felt so offended at the moment. Why a man could broke into a girl's room without notice and judge the way I put my staff in such a bad manner? The room has no locker and it really felt very strange for a girl. It felt like I was sharing the bedroom with him, and he kept steping into my room when I'm out. For GOD sake, how do I know whether he touch my staff and my bed or not???
He kept blaming me very unrespectful repeatly. But all I did was just using hair dryer in the night for once, and spill a bit water in the toilet while bathing, and I applogized to him for more than 10 times.
Then the 5th day, he texted me again, accused me for breaking his hair dryer and asked me to pay for it for 30 pounds. While the old hair dryer he lent me making strange noice from the first day. But that night I tried the hair dryer after I returned home, it still worked.
I'm a easy going girl, I have decent job, and I've used airbnb for dozens of times.
I was expecting a great venture in London, but all I got was a robbery and a unbelievably sensitive and impolite host. It's ridiculous he describe himself friendly host in his profile.
His bedroom is totally not suitable for renting, especially for GIRLS travelling alone.
Oh, another kind reminder, DO NOT LIVE IN HIS FLAT IN THE WEEKENDS, unless you want to hear his neighbor from upstairs having sex and screaming all night. Not to mension the loudly steps every day and night!!!!