Good points
Reasonable space: big kitchen, bedroom and bathroom.
Enough kitchen utensils, microwave, cooker, toaster. Able to prepare meals.
Separate access, own door.
Ceiling and other lights good.
Heating ok for mid-October, extra oil radiator is available.
Centrally located in Didsbury, 5 min walk to main street, close to Tesco, Aldi, M&S, pubs, restaurants.
On street car parking is generally easy.
Owners friendly, ready to help.
Negatives
The 140 cm double bed has a thin uncomfortable mattress. If you like black sheets and a stone-cold floor this is for you. I don’t. Neither do I like not having a comfortable chair to sit on, only a low couch. This, together with other apparently old and unloved pieces (such as you may find in the attic of an old house) is the furniture in this basement ‘superb’ flat.
On day 2, we imported bedding to replace the torn duvet, thin pillows, and the black sheet offered.
Make it up the six deep steps to garden level, and you’re faced with some manoeuvring to reach the front of the house, especially in the dark with no outside light. On day 3, the light above the steps was fixed, but the side of the house with many items stored on the path there was still dark.
The flat looks out onto a small desolate-looking garden: pile of cut tree branches, ladders, garden tools …
Re advert in web:
•	the whole house is not ‘yours’, the Airbnb is a basement flat of kitchen bathroom and bedroom, the owners live above, normal family noises can be heard.
•	the floor is not wood, except for 1.5 square meters, the rest is stone flags with no rug or carpet.
Finally, in our opinion the flat is good for students and young people. Not convenient for oldsters.