The location is excellent. It is an easy walk to Victoria Station and the Apollo Theater (we saw Wicked there), and if you like to walk it is is also possible to walk to Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament and so on - which we did. The neighborhood is loaded with eateries and shops and Alessandro emailed us lots of information about places to eat and so on - he provided a marked map and little reviews. We followed his advice and ate at his favorite pub twice, and at an excellent Indian restaurant he recommended and shopped for breakfast and lunch items at the neighborhood Sainsbury's.

Alessandro left a bottle of wine, snacks, a selection of breakfast cereals, and, most thoughtful of all, a liter of "box milk," which made it easy to breakfast in the room, which had its own very well stocked kitchenette. I did not meet him but my husband did and he was very helpful and welcoming and gave us his own reviews of two of the current musicals we were considering.