I was traveling alone in London for a 6 weeks internship. I knew anybody in the town so I thought that being in a colocation would have been great to encounter people… but… actually the renters of the other rooms weren’t even responding to my « hello », I don’t know any names of the people who were in the same house as me for those 6 weeks… only one of them talked to me sometimes but just a few words… To give an example, I once close the door forgetting my keys, I knocked at the door for 10minutes till somebody opened the door ! Whereas people were on the kitchen (right in front the door) !!!
Concerning the cleaning, it was really bad in the shared places (bathroom, kitchen), the bedroom was ok but the bathroom really bad ! There is hopefully a cleaning girl who came every week but I think that’s not enough. Maybe, I stayed with dirty people but somedays it was really disgusting, I had to buy some cleaning product by my own.
I have never seen the host but I contacted her by text and she was responding quickly (once I was in London before it took a while…) especially for problems such as the wifi or the keys when I arrived