The stay at Rosario was the worst I had ever experienced. They save up on everything and everything seems to be broken, at least according to Rosario. Water wasn’t hot, it was LUKEWARM while it wasn’t that warm in London, so I had to spend up to 25min boiling extra water in pots to add it to the bathtub to have at least a semblance of a proper bath during the week, for which of course I could hear a LOT of complaining behind the wall. I recorded all of that many days in a row and had it translated by a Portugese friend in case the situation got worse. Once she even hid the bath plug as an attempt to prevent me from taking a bath but I created my own and did take the bath and next morning it appeared back in the bathroom and she asked me if “I found the bathtub plug which she hid behind the shampoos as someone might take it”. I literary haven’t heard anything THIS stupid in my life! For 3 weekends in a row I had to travel a few miles to my friend’s Airbnb as I could take a decent hot bath there which again cost me extra money and a lot of time and it’s all while working 70-80hrs a week. I was forever criticised (either in English or in Portugese) for doing my laundry (just once a week) as Rosario kept telling me that the washing machine doesn’t work well and if I break it, I would have to pay for it.
To booth, despite overcharging for a mini-room in a council flat in one of the worst areas of London (Stockwell) full of council flats, Rosario and her husband seem ultra-stingy. Once when I started boiling milk for my hot choc and I went for my room for 20s, her husband went to the kitchen and TURNED OFF THE LIGHT (!!!). Another day when I went to brush my teeth in the morning in the bathroom, went out, saw Rosario and said ‘good morning’, I was shouted at in reply NOT to waste electricity. I had no idea what she meant until she pointed out that I turned on the light in the bathroom for 2 mins while doing it as ‘there is natural light from the window’ (well, not in the morning and a cloudy morning to boot).
It might not be mentioned on the site, but they rent another one of their rooms so during my stay there were 5 of us in total sharing a very small kitchen and a bathroom. Not ideal. Also, twice grandchildren were visiting - very loud, unruly and loudly shouted at by Rosario's husband. If you're tired after work or count on a relaxing time at this Airbnb, just forget it. I couldn't hear my own thoughts and the client's I had online video calls at the time could hear the kids to even through my earphones!
In general, I had such a bad time there and it was almost 2 months that even working all day every single day of my stay there I really didn’t feel like coming back to Airbnb and sometimes I would stay at work even longer to avoid any interaction with Rosario and her husband whatsoever. The only reason I stayed there so long was because, of course, I had paid for the whole stay (grossly overpaid I would say) and working THIS much I wouldn’t’ have had the time to either look for new accommodation, or of course to pack, move and unpack.
Not recommended unless you’re in London for a few days and you don’t care too much about your accommodation.