My wife and I spent a week in May 2015 and overall we were quite pleased and would recommend Andy and his place. We used Manchester as a base for many day trips (York, Liverpool, Peak District, Buxton and Blackpool)

Andy was pretty good. He replied promptly to all emails and tried his best to help wherever practical. The apartment is in a good location - very convenient to Victoria station and is fairly nice.

My main concerns were:

1) Andy had agreed to meet us at the train station but was an hour late. He did apologise and mentioned his Dad was in from out of town but it is disconcerting waiting for someone you don't know after a lengthy flight.

2) The apartment while pretty good is not luxury.

The bed in the master bathroom is a low profile bed with slats which came out 3 times over the week stay. It really should be upgraded.

The blinds in the master bedroom are old style Venetian blinds and they were badly bent out of shape and did not do much in the way of keeping light out. I mentioned this to Andy in an email and he thanked me for the feedback and said he would replace them.

Fuses in some of the electrical outlets were missing (Andy indicated people take them). He suggested I swap out a few for the more critical ones which I did. Also, the battery in the smoke detector is missing and I mentioned this to Andy in an email.

We would like to thank Andy for his hospitality and we hope future visitors enjoy themselves as much as we did.