We had a great time staying in Carly's. We found Battersea to be a really cool area, with interesting contrasts between the old estates and the new luxury developments on the waterfront. There are nice places to eat both at Circus West Village (Battersea power station) and Riverlight (along Nine elms towards the US embassy) – both on the riverfront. There are also plenty of different cafes and restaurants around the Battersea Park station. There’s a grocery store just a few hundred metres up the road (Thessaly road) from the flat. The flat is in on a very quiet road (a bus passes every 15 minutes, but there is practically no other traffic). No noise from pubs or neighbours. There is a train line nearby, and you can hear the planes flying in towards Heathrow, but we did not find it disturbing, even though we had the windows open all the time (and I think it's difficult to find anywhere in London where you don't get any traffic noise). The bed in the bedroom is very comfortable, and the sofabed in the living room is good for a sofabed. Good and well equipped kitchen. The flat is fairly new, so there is balanced ventilation. It’s not air condition, but it helped a lot when the temperatures were at their highest (they reached 35 the week we were there, but that is very unusual for London). We enjoyed the bus connections that can take you almost anywhere - and if the temperatures hadn't been over 30 degrees almost the whole week we were there, we probably would have walked and cycled a lot more. There are several Santander bike stations close to the flat. From the area around the American embassy you can access the Thames river walkway eastbound. We recommend using a proper transport map (we used an app called London Travel Maps, and the maps for Central London Bus and South West London Bus) to get an overview of the bus connections, as Google tend to favour rail, and also make things unnecessarily complicated. From Nine Elms (just up Thessaly road) there are busses towards Vauxhall, where you can connect to the Underground. From Battersea Park station you can get the train or bus (44) to Victoria. Or bus 137 or 452 towards Sloan Square for great shopping in Kings road or Kensington (452 only). If you don’t mind walking a little, you can go down Thessaly road to Wandsworth road for bus 77 to Waterloo (London Eye, Southbank, Westminster) or 87 (Tate Britain, Westminster, Trafalgar Square). We also recommend getting the river boat to or from Battersea Power station at least once as it is great to see the city from the river. The line is RB2, and you can find the time tables at the tfl website. You can use your Oyster card for the boats as well. We recommend getting an Oyster card at the airport if you don’t have one, as it’s convenient and gives...