The flat is roomy and tastefully decorated and has all the amenities – we especially LOVED the Nespresso! Thank you! Beds are comfortable, towels and linens plush. The location is great. My husband and I stayed here with our son while visiting our daughter at UCL and were an 8-minute walk from her dorm. Also, an easy walk to British Museum, Oxford St shopping, Soho and theatres. The neighborhood is lively and has everything you need close by – several tube and bus stops, groceries, drug store, pubs, coffee shops, great fast-food restaurants, some upscale dining, and more. The hosts responded quickly to any questions we had (except freezer thing, see below). Overall fantastic. Just a few little things you might want to know about if you stay here:
* The front door to the building is very hard to open. You have to use the key that says Yale and jiggle it for a while before you find the sweet spot that opens it. Ultimately it will be a clockwise turn with the key not quite pushed all the way in.
* To get in and out of the shower in the master bath it is a high step over the raised tub-side, which was tricky for me with a bad knee. The second bath also has a shower that is easy to walk in to.
* The master bath always smells vaguely of cigarette smoke. We decided it must be coming up through the ventilation from the restaurant below. Also, the bedrooms are in the front/street side of the flat, right over the patio seating for the restaurant, so if people are sitting outside smoking, opening the windows only makes the smoke smell worse.
* The clothes dryer required several runs to get things dry. We ended up drying our clothes in the sun on the lovely deck. Would have been helpful to have a drying rack.
* The freezer was unusable because it was frosted over and the drawers frozen shut. They said they’d send someone over to fix it but never did.
* The street is pretty noisy at night, but it’s a big city, so kind of to be expected. The neighbors in the building were loud too (music til late at night, shouting in the halls at 3am one time).
Overall a great find!