I stayed at Sophie's place for 8 days, the overall experience is great. I would provide more details about this place, the good and bad.
The good:
1. Perfect location, very closed (1-2 min walking) to Notting Hill underground station, M&S, restaurants. The larger M&S, waitrose, whole foods market on High Kensington Street is also within distance of 15 min walking, which is great if you want to cook more, due to the Covid lockdown.
2. Sophie provides most of essential cooking essentials, including oil, pepper, salt, pans, tools, though not everything, but quite enough.
3. There is a Nespresso coffee machine and Sophie also provides more than enough coffee capsules for that, which is amazing. The tea selection is not of my taste, but I believe someone will definitely enjoy that.
4. The bedroom is on the other side of the flat, which is really quiet, although the living room is next to a busy road, which can be noisy, but acceptable.
5. The flat is really clean, especially the bed and floor.
6. There are a nice collection of books and travel brochures. If you are interested to know England more, or have a lot of time to kill by reading detective novels, or even something like "too big to fail", or "never eat alone", it is a great place to stay.
7. Nice and enough napkins in the bedroom.
The bad:
1. The heating system is quite weak. It was freezing cold (outdoor 4C) when we arrived, and it took the three electrical heaters around 1-2 days to reach 20-23C, probably there was no person staying here for quite some time before we arrived due to the covid lockdown. The temperature held quite well during the later 5-6 days of our staying.
2. The shower water was slow. I hope it can be updated later.
3. I am allergic to dust mite, so my nose felt a little itchy when I sit around the couch. If you are not allergic to that, you wont have any problem.
Overall, even with a few cons, the place was almost perfect for our stay (no place is perfect), it is even better than some Airbnb Plus places we stayed at. We really appreciated what Sophie provided in the flat.
We will definitely stay here in the future.