There are lots of positives to this place, but the overall experience was quite disappointing.
This is a room in a shared house - I would describe it as a small, unstaffed hostel. The location is excellent (quick walk from King’s Cross Station, British Museum, British Library, Undergroud stations etc.), and there are some nice places to eat nearby. The host communicated well before check in and getting into the house is really easy.
The room was incredibly small - if it had been any smaller, we wouldn’t have been able to open the door! It is basically a box room with a double bed crammed in and, because it is at the top of the house, the roof slopes quite low down so that you can’t even sit up in bed!
The room and shared bathroom were very clean.
I got a message from the host while we were out for dinner asking us to tell them the exact time we would check out the next day - it seemed quite inappropriate, considering the fact that we’d paid until 11am, and the message was quite abrupt. The cleaners then turned up really early and had started cleaning the bathroom an hour before we had left, and we still needed to use it!
The washing machine is very noisy and, despite the host asking people only to use it at specific times to avoid noise disruption, the machine was going at 8am and woke us up early. The walls are very thin and we were also kept awake by people clanking around in the kitchen early in the morning.
We were only staying one night, but I would have been very upset if we’d booked here for any longer!