Unfortunately I didn’t enjoy my stay at Jane’s place at all.
When I arrived it was 17.5 degrees in the flat (I bought a thermometer to confirm) despite what the Google thermostat thought. It took me 3 days to resolve this with the host because they avoided answering my questions. They had the thermostat programmed to heat to 20 degrees, twice a day for 2 hours, which did absolutely nothing. I very nearly got sick. Stressful. I eventually bought an electric space heater to warm up whatever room I was in. The thermostat in the flat is remotely controlled and ineffective to warm the place, since it’s cleverly stuck on the side of the unit that holds the boiler.
The bed is a double mattress on a single base. So be careful when you sit on the edge as you might fall. If you are 2, well, that’s going to be interesting. In the bedroom there is nowhere to put anything in terms of drawers, wardrobe etc. Just some hangers on an open rail.
Furnishings and kitchen utensils are very sparse - everything looks like it has been salvaged, the odd pan without a lid for cooking, a few random knives and forks, let’s say you want to make a stir fry, yea nop, nothing suitable. When I arrived there was not even kitchen knives or a chopping board (did anyone actually stay here before?). I considered these so basic that I requested them, got them, and regretted it because my breakfast tasted like garlic.
The place is also a little bit dingy, it’s a basement, and while spacious it’s always a bit dark and just sort of underground.
After the difficulty of getting the heating sorted out, I decided that adapting to the place and just getting on with it in my own way was the better move, rather than contacting the host to complain about the bed frame and general lack of investment in kitchen utensils, which was likely to be a losing battle.
I paid 4500 pounds to stay in this place for a month so the fact that the host could not incur a few one-time costs to make my stay a bit more comfortable was disappointing.
Not recommended.