My stay at Liz’s apartment and my interactions with Liz were far from hospitable almost to a point of her being extremely curt and rude to me. Not only was my check-in process quite exhausting but also my check out rather rushed to the point of Liz barging into my room at 10:00 am and pulling out the sheets from the bed, asking me to hurry up and leave.
Having checked in to the apartment at 7:30 pm despite the check in being at 2 pm and me responding to her messages as soon as I could get wifi. As she was checking me in, even after me repeatedly apologizing to her, telling her it was my first time in London, that I was traveling alone and I had only managed to get a SIM card in the evening.
She kept yelling at me that “this isn’t a hotel, it is my house”, “because of you I could not go out for dinner with my friend and attend a concert” etc. In the event of her having another personal commitment, like other Airbnb hosts, she could have made arrangements for me to pick up the keys from somewhere or informed me about her personal plans, so I could come back from the outskirts of London back to central London rather than choose to keep yelling at me as if it was my fault that I booked her Airbnb.
Honestly, having lugged around my heavy bags all day, my interaction with Liz left me very overwhelmed and when I asked her if I should leave the apartment, she seemed to suddenly calm down. When I booked an Airbnb and not a “hotel”, I certainly did not sign up for being talked down to in a rude, condescending way.
It seems like some of the guests in the past have had a similar experience with Liz too. All in all, I would most definitely not come back again to Liz’s despite her apartment’s central location. A rather unfortunate time in a fantastic city with some of the most polite people I have met.