The location of this apartment is gorgeous - right next to London Fields and a ten-minute walk to several overground stations. I stayed for 30 nights but unfortunately can not recommend this airbnb and would implore the guests to sort out the below before they accept new guests.
Check-in was push backed slightly (which wasn't a problem) due to the cleaner being delayed, but when I arrived the flat was absolutely filthy - dust everywhere, lime scale all over the bathroom screen, tea spills in the microwave, inches of dirt in the kitchen cabinets. The owners were on holiday at this time, but once they arrived it just got worse. They have a young child who may be teething, but she cried and yelled for hours each morning. This flat is advertised as self-contained (and there is a separate private entrance), but once you're inside, all that separates you from the family home is a single door, and when they're on the first floor above you, you can literally hear their conversations word for word and the baby yelling for hours.
I wouldn't usually mind this, but they're quite a loud family, and the baby crying was so incredibly difficult to live with - I could hear her through 2 closed doors and earbuds in. I assume she was teething, so was trying to approach the situation with empathy, but this place isn't fit to stay more than a few nights. I actually booked another airbnb for 3 nights so I could rest properly in the middle of my stay, and was hoping to gently draw the owners' attention to the noise when we met (but even though I tried to arrange this twice it never happened over my 30 night stay).
The attention to detail just didn't match the luxury stated in the advert. There aren't any Aesop products, as advertised - there wasn't even hand soap in the bathroom when I arrived. In addition, the photos of the garden aren't up to date (part of it has since been paved) and the 'cross fit and gym equipment' is literally 2-3 very rusty kettlebells and 4-5 dumbbells that are orange with rust.
The furniture is shoddy - the doors don't click shut properly, and the bed was incredibly wobbly with awful feet that hadn't meet screwed on properly. As such, I removed the feet of the bed and put them safely in a plastic bag, forgot to re-attach them before I left, and got a pretty hostile message from the hosts after leaving saying I'd 'broken' the bed legs and taken them with me...they were literally just unscrewed and set aside in a plastic bag with all of the screws too, so the bed frame would rest on the floor and wouldn't wobble when I got in and out. When I apologised and explained that they'd simply been unscrewed and that the hosts could find the legs safely stored in the wardrobe, I got another hostile message saying I had to come back and screw them on myself before the next guests arrived at 6pm the next night...
They also said that I'd 'broken' a blind in the bedroom. So, I took an afternoon off work to come back the next day with a handyman and a friend who specialises in upholstery. It took 30 seconds to sew back the part of the blind that had come off (one of the eyelets) - it was literally wear and tear and the blind worked perfectly fine without it. My friend who specialises in upholstery was quite angered and shocked at the way they'd spoken about the 'damage' vs how small the issue actually was - it was literally a piece of thread that attached an eyelet to the blind that had come loose. That was literally it..
The handyman who looked at the bedframe said it was incredibly cheap and that the wood inside was very low quality, which is why the legs had been falling off. He was able to drill them back in within 20 minutes, and told me that he suspects the bed hadn't been put together professionally and that the problem was made worse by the mattress the hosts had put on the bed being unsuitable - it weighs like 15 kg and the bed is too shoddy to hold it up. Both of them were shocked at the way the hosts had written to me about the 'damage' vs the actual wear and tear and how quick it was to fix.
I’ve stayed in about 10 airbnbs over the last 7 years and this was the worst welcome and service I’ve ever received, with the highest price.