The flat is located on a quiet side street with good access to public transportation, both buses and tube. The décor is attractive, and the living area is comfortable. The kitchen is small, but reasonably well equipped for a vacation rental. The smaller back bedroom is quiet, but the front bedroom does get some street noise from the nearby main street.
Now for the negatives. The beds are very, very uncomfortable. The larger bed in the front bedroom is extremely hard. Fortunately, I found a futon in the wardrobe to put on top of the mattress to make it bearable. The bed in the smaller room had springs that poked you in the shoulder and back, so you have to position yourself to avoid them. The hosts really need to invest in decent mattresses so that guests can get a good night’s sleep.
A second problem for us was the smell. The entire apartment had this sickly sweet odor that even airing out daily with open windows failed to fix. All the bedding had the same strong fragrance which permeated the apartment.
Another issue was the garbage left on the doorstep. We had to step around bags of garbage to get into the building. The bags were left overnight, so animals had strewn the garbage around the entry. We reported this to the host, but the garbage remained there for several days till I cleaned it up myself and put it in a bin in the back. Next day, more bags appeared.
Finally, after we left, the host falsely accused us of breaking an electrical switch that was broken when we arrived, and she is attempting to charge us an additional $160 to fix it. Her dialogue with us was extremely unpleasant and nasty. Airbnb is working to resolve this issue, but it has caused us a lot of stress.