John was very welcoming and helped with any questions I had. The pictures look exactly like the rooms and represent the space well. The neighborhood is nice and quiet, away from city noise. The bedroom is large with plenty of space. The house is less than a 10 minute walk from the nearest Tube station, Gunnersbury, which is really convenient. With the peacefulness of the neighborhood, comes the distance to most tourist attractions. So just keep in mind that it took me roughly 30-50 minutes on the Tube to get to most places I wanted to visit.

Now I have to list some of the downsides. I stayed with them for two months and unfortunately I overheard a lot of fighting. I did experience one night where one of their sons threw a little party and because you can hear everything very well, I was woken up at 2 A.M. and could not get back to sleep until 4 A.M. because of all the noise. Granted, this was probably a one time occurrence, as I told John about it, so I'm sure they would make sure it doesn't happen again. The last thing that I didn't realize until literally the day before I left to go back home was that my food was being eaten. I had been running out of cereal constantly and always wondered why I would run out so fast. I let it go but then two days before I left, I noticed there was hardly any cereal left, so I suspected one of the sons was eating it. Then the last day I went back and it was completely empty, but the empty bag was still in the box, so now I knew my food was being eaten. It is also annoying to think I have food to eat and then find out it has been eaten. I feel this is important to share because it costs money to buy food for myself and I'm not paying to stay somewhere to buy food for their children. I'm sure John had no knowledge of this and if I would have realized this sooner, I would have told John to ask his sons to stop. If you buy any tasty snacks that teenagers might like, just keep them in the room.

Even though I didn't have the best experience, it was still a nice place and a nice neighborhood. I'm sure hearing my feedback, they will make improvements so that this doesn't happen again. As long as there's no fighting, middle of the night parties, or stealing of food, this place is a good place to stay. They are very nice and I'm sure improvements will be made.