The value for money was great. This is more than a room, it is essentially a "garden" studio apartment (i.e., basement level but with plenty of light), although the furnishings are limited to a bed, a couple of tables with chairs, and storage for clothes.
It was about two blocks from bus lines running to Islington Angel, Kings Cross, Trafalgar Square, and Regents Park, and three blocks from the Overground system (which would provide essentially a direct route out to Kew Gardens in the west and Stratford to the east.