My wife and I spent three nights here. Location and cleanliness are top notch. Love the neighborhood, with great connections to Victoria and Pimlico stations, plus bus routes. Plenty of food and drink options nearby. It's a great spot. Also, greatly appreciated were the wine, drinks and snack provided by Alessandro. The shared bathrooms weren't an issue at all - never had to wait, always clean. The room itself was as it appeared in the picture for the most part.

However, we did have two big issues.

One is the bed, which is incredibly uncomfortable and appears to have the bad combination of being both cheap and beyond its best days. The bed made it difficult to get a good nights sleep, and did impact our enjoyment of London as we were constantly tired. Our traveling companions in a different room actually left for a hotel because their bed was so bad.

Second issue was security. We were awoken on our last day at 1am (we had a 5am wakeup for the airport) by someone coming in to our room. With a key. Turns out there was a second set of keys to #8 in the box downstairs, so anyone with access to that box had access to our flat. It made us very uneasy, and if it had happened earlier in our trip, we too would have likely left for a hotel.

Unfortunately, these two items tend to overshadow the goods and lead to a negative opinion of our stay and our first airbnb experience. Which is a shame to say because Alessandro was great in all of the lead-up, and the location is just fantastic. I did write all of this to Alessandro the day we left, but have not heard a response within the following 4 1/2 days.

I really, really hate to leave this feedback but I felt that it needed to be said.