Baba and his wife were great hosts. I was in London for the weekend with a friend, and we both enjoyed our stay in the room.

The location isn't walking distance to any London attractions, but there is a bus stop right outside his building that has buses that will take you to directly to London Bridge, Tower Bridge/Tower of London, and the British Museum within 20 minutes. Getting to Big Ben, Westminster, and Buckingham Palace is also pretty easy - there's an overground Tube stop about 5 minutes away, so the whole trip takes about half an hour. Night buses also run nearby, so you can pretty easily avoid cab fare if you're going out late. This is really an ideal budget AirBnb - it would take just as long to get around from much more expensive and well known neighbourhoods.

The place admittedly doesn't look that nice on the outside, but that doesn't really matter! Baba and his wife let us have full use of the kitchen, including their refrigerator and dishes. The oven and shower are a little tricky to turn on, so make sure to ask about it so you don't stare at a frying pan for 5 minutes before realising nothing is heating up!

Unfortunately, Baba had to work most of the weekend that we were there, so we didn't get to see much of him. He invited us out with him on our last night there, which we really appreciated, but were too tired to take up. This is definitely a good place to stay if you like having lots of social interactions with the hosts.

The one downside to our visit was that our hosts were a bit late in getting us our key - the apartment was locked when we arrived at the time we had arranged, and Baba's wife got there about 15 minutes later. Overall, though, just a tiny bad start to what was otherwise a good visit.