While Amanda is lovely and the place is definitely charming, I didn’t have the 5 star experience of many others before me. I feel it’s important to mention that I did stay in Amanda’s place for a month, so some of the things that made this experience worse for me, may not be relevant/applicable for people staying a shorter amount of time.
One of the things that struck me as a huge red flag was that Amanda entered the flat during my stay (when I was meant to have the entire place to myself) at 8pm while I was in bed. I’d been made aware that she would be dropping by - but just to leave an extra heater at the door, not that she would be entering the flat. I was sick on this occasion, half asleep in bed when she knocked on the door, and said she just needed to pick something up. This felt like a major invasion of my privacy given that I was only half dressed, sick, and also in bed at the time. I feigned not hearing her enter and waited 5 minutes before venturing out to see that she had already left.
The second thing that irked me was when Amanda accidentally sent a package to the flat’s address instead of her work address. This in itself would be fine, but the follow up from this wasn’t. I was asked to look out for the package and answer the door if I was at the flat when it was delivered, which was fine, but upon telling her that I hadn’t been there and that there was a delivery slip saying the package was with her neighbour, she asked me to go knock on his door and get it from him. This was on a Friday night at 7:30. I wasn’t even in the flat, and this wasn’t even *my* neighbour. In my opinion it wasn’t appropriate to ask this of me.
The only other issue I had during my time at Amanda’s was the general hygiene of the flat. Due to the amount of stuff in the flat, there is a large amount of dust, which is accompanied by little dust mites that can be seen crawling along surfaces.
Like I said at the start, Amanda (and her dogs) are lovely. The photos are also accurate, and the price that I paid was reasonable, but these experiences negatively impacted my stay.