I had a great time staying at Alex's place for the six nights I was there. Though she wasn't there when I was there, she was very responsive in the period ahead of my stay and emailed while I was there to make sure everything is okay.

The room is on the ground floor of the cutest little house in the very cool and convenient Clerkenwell area of London. I walked almost everywhere from there, but YMMV. Alex left a really good list of local coffee places and restaurants, but there's just so much to try nearby around Smithfield Market, Spitalfields and Brick Lane.

Because the room is on street level of a trendy area, there can occasionally be an issue with noise, mostly from pedestrians walking by. I was woken in the middle of the night a couple of times by people talking to each other as they headed somewhere nearby. The proximity to the street is also why, even though there's a window, I kept the shutters closed almost the entire time, as I expect most people would.

Otherwise, the room has everything you need. I found the fridge particularly wonderful to fill up with cheeses and other food items from London markets that I wound up giving as gifts to friends I was visiting elsewhere in England.