Our family of five, 2 adults and 3 children (8, 11, 14) stayed at Dan's Chiswick home for 7 days, and it was wonderful. Although our plane arrived into Heathrow off schedule, Natalie was waiting at the house to greet us warmly when we arrived. The kids were especially thrilled to see the kitchen was already stocked with fruit, bread, cereal, milk - everything we needed until we could get to the grocery store ourselves. (A ten minute walk from the house is a wonderful street with small gourmet food shops - specialty cheeses and meats, fruit, vegetables, butchers - a treasure of culinary delights for food lovers.)

Natalie was very helpful, giving us the lay of the land, with her particularly wonderful tip to ride the 94 Bus into Picadilly Circus - cheapest "tour" in town! She answered all our questions, made sure we knew how to reach her if we had more, then graciously left us to begin our own adventures.

The house was truly a "home away from home". The kitchen was reasonably appointed and the beds - all of them - were incredibly comfortable (excellent, high quality linens). Site seeing with 3 children is exhausting at times, and they all appreciated being able to return to the comforts of "home" at the end of the afternoon. For us old folk who still had energy to see more, we could make the kids a home cooked meal, then head out on foot to dine at one of the countless wonderful restaurants in the neighborhood, continuing our London holiday. (The neighborhood was extremely safe so we felt very comfortable leaving the kids in the morning for a coffee, to walk to the market, or to go out for an hour or two for a pint in the evening.) And on the day the kids said "no more museums!" we walked over to beautiful Ravenscourt Park and played all afternoon.

We highly recommend Dan's Chiswick House - it was beautiful, welcoming, comfortable, and in an excellent location for seeing all of the sites of London. Thank you, Dan, for being a huge part of an outstanding London holiday.