We stayed in Lina’s studio for 8 days in between moves. We live in London so know the area well. Muswell Hill is a lovely area with plenty of shops, restaurants and an Odeon cinema.

Postives: The flat is very clean. The bed is very comfortable and the shower is great. We were glad to have been left some clean towels and the bed linen and extra blankets were all in perfect condition. The area is also very peaceful and quiet and we were able to get a good sleep. There is a small oven and 2 cooking rings with pots and pans, plates and glasses etc so we were able to make light meals which was good. Lina’s communication before and during our stay was excellent. She was very friendly and did everything she could to help us including letting us add some extra days to our stay when we needed to stay longer.

Cons: It is very small and did start to feel quite claustrophobic after day 3. For 1 or 2 nights this is a great alternative to a hotel.The kitchen sink seems to have some problems with drainage as it takes ages to empty plus the toilet makes a really loud noise when flushing and then it can go off randomly during the night too (we had brought earplugs so it didn’t disturb us too much). There seems to be some unnecessary furniture that takes up space and being in such a small space anyway it might be best to only leave one chair in the flat rather than the 2 (2 set up and 2 folded extra ones) and leave some extra space free for suitcases etc. This isnt Lina’s fault but the bus route that should run on Colney Hatch Lane is now off until late November 2014 which means we had to walk 20 mins to Muswell Hill to get buses to and from central London. If the bus route was operational it would have been a 5/10 minute walk to the bus stop. The flat is advertised as having wifi but what it actually has is one wifi box from inside another flat in the building. That meant in order to get connected we would have to go inside another person’s flat in the main building upstairs. We decided not to do that as we like to keep our own privacy so we didn’t have any wifi during our stay. It seems there are too many devices connected to the one wifi box as there seems to be at least 2 flats above the studio flat and that is why I think we couldn’t get any wifi.