Marks place is in the super lively and interesting Portabello Road. The flat it self is cosy warm and quite, like all the reveiws have said. The beds are so cozy and a dream to get over our jet-lag. Beautiful bathroom and basically the whole top floor to ourselves. The veiw is of chimney tops... very Mary Poppins. The street markets and shops are delightful. My favourite was the mass of secondhand shops which were well run and well priced. The Portabello Gin place was my daughters fav place. Mark is a good host, we felt very welcome. He is happy to give out ideas of places to visit or eat at. All the buses and metro stations are so easily accessible. We got Osyter cards posted to us, in good time, before we left from Australia. This made it easy to jump onto the train to Paddington station from the Airport. And topping up is easy. This is a great part of town. So easy to get to all the museums and center of city or beyond.
We both highly recommend staying @ Marks place... we would stay there again with no hesitation.
Thanks so much Mark for making our trip something to remember!