Isobel’s home is in an excellent location, being less than a 15 minute walk to London Bridge tube station. The location is very quiet and it's perfect for accessing the rest of London. Although the listing shows the property is suitable for 6 guests, I definitely wouldn’t recommend this. I think the property is best suited to a maximum of 4 people.
Our group was 5 adults and, space and comfort-wise, it was definitely a challenge and not very comfortable. The second bedroom has no storage space and, with a small child’s bed in the room, there's extremely limited floor space with no space for any bags or luggage to be left on the floor. As a result, all suitcases and luggage had to be kept in the master bedroom which was problematic in itself and not convenient or practical.
There is a hand-held shower over the bath in the main bathroom but unfortunately there was no shower curtain which made the shower unusable. It meant that the 5 of us had to use the en-suite shower in the main bedroom.
Seating-wise in the living room, there is 1 sofa which can seat 3 people if all the scatter cushions are removed, plus 1 armchair. Any other guests have to sit on dining room chairs. We all found the sofa very uncomfortable and so we took it in turns to sit in the armchair. It’s possible to seat 3 people around the dining table in its current position but, any more than that means pulling the dining table outwards away from the bookshelf and hatch area and further into the room, which then hinders access to the doorway. It's all possible but inconvenient.
The kitchen is well equipped. The property listing indicates a dishwasher but there isn’t one.
Unfortunately, the Wi-Fi and TV weren’t working when we arrived. I reported this to the management company and the Wi-Fi came online after 2 days. No channels could be found on the TV with an on-screen fault message referring to the aerial connection. We couldn’t get the TV to work during our 6-night stay.
I’d requested the sofa bed to be made up for our arrival, however, this had not been done. The lady who met us at the property quickly returned with a bag of towels and bed sheets and got a duvet out of the garage; thankfully we didn’t need this as the weather was hot (it was a winter-weight duvet). We found some spare pillows in the wardrobe.
The property could definitely have been cleaner. The bathrooms and kitchen were adequately clean but many surfaces elsewhere were dusty. The main entrance area, where the sofa bed is, had a smell of stale smoke. Regarding safety/fire-hazards, I noticed that plug sockets in the living room appeared to be quite overloaded with a plastic block adaptor in use and a tangle of wires and extension plug around the Wi-Fi box/TV connection.
We really enjoyed our stay in London and the location of Isobel’s house is perfect and very peaceful but it definitely wasn’t the most comfortable or practical place to stay for a group of 5.