Stayed at Fil's place for 5 days. We have not met him, but he had arranged for us to pick up the keys on a location not far from our route from the airport. Everything went smoothly. He had kindly given us detailed instructions.

The apartment was clean and well organised, and sufficed for all our needs. It took us about 20min in morning and evening to commute from London tube, and there are buses for late at night. Fil would always answer promptly whenever we had questions, so no problems there either. Thumbs up.