Gill’s place is perfectly situated in the very centre of town, on a cute back street with lots of nice shops, restaurants and bars nearby. It’s only a 10-min walk from the station. You really couldn’t want for a better location.
The flat is quite small as you can see in the photos but the bathroom and kitchen are a decent size which is nice. The flat has lovely big sash windows so it gets lots of light, but they’re only single-glazed so there can be a bit of noise at night when the pubs close - I’d recommend bringing earplugs. Lovely big shower with decent water pressure. The kitchen has a microwave and two induction hobs but no oven if you’re planning to self-cater. The induction hobs didn’t seem to be working that well - they seem to go on and off every few seconds so you get little five-second bursts of heat (which isn’t my experience of how induction hobs work) so it took a while to heat food. The WiFi isn’t the fastest but it’s fine - we managed to stream a couple of things on Netflix and only had a problem with bandwidth once which was fixed by restarting the router.
There were some really nice touches - Gill and her husband left fresh flowers, chocolates, milk, and a bag of coffee to use with the cafetière, which was lovely (although the previous guests hadn’t cleaned out the cafetière after they used it).
A few tiny improvements could be made - eg, making sure bulbs are replaced when blown as one of the lamps wasn’t working; and the quality and quantity of loo roll could be better - it was really thin and cheap and only two rolls were left so we ran out. A wooden spoon and a bread knife would be handy additions to the kitchen (props for the cafetière and the corkscrew though!). And a washing up sponge would be useful as it’s hard to clean dishes and glasses with a brush.
All in all, it was a great base for our Christmas break. Thanks, Gill!