The good:
* Staff were responsive and helpful.
* The location is wonderful--right by the underground, national rail,
Buckingham Palace, etc.
* It's clean.
* It's on a very quiet cul-de-sac, great for sleeping.
* Good bandwidth on the wifi.
* Shower-over-tub, with good water pressure.
* Free washer-dryer single unit works well.
* It does actually have a private street entrance.
Areas for improvement:
* The only toilet screams like a banshee for half a minute after every flush.
You won't want to use it while anyone's trying to sleep.
* The dining area is a fold-up table in the living room, so it's over carpet;
if you've got little kids with you, it'll be hard to keep the carpet clean.
Also, there are only 3 folding chairs, so one person has to sit on the arm
of the couch or on a comfy-but-not-good-for-eating chair.
* The pillows are ancient any lumpy.
* The bathroom could use a towel rack and a wastepaper basket; the only trash
can in the flat is in the kitchen, and there's no place to put your towel
other than the toilet.
* Various bits and pieces are in poor repair: the kitchen cabinet
doors are sagging, the living room blinds are partly broken [so it's too
bright to sleep there after dawn], the tub's corroding, etc. Overall,
though, it's a nice apartment in good shape.
* The fireplace is covered with a board, as shown in the photo--possibly just
for the summer? At any rate, it wasn't usable while we were there, not that
we wanted to use it.
* The stove igniter's broken, so we had to buy a lighter for it.
* Kitchen offers oil and sugar, but no salt or pepper.
Overall we're happy with our stay there. It was much nicer and better-located
than a hotel that we'd have gotten for that price at that notice.