I stayed at Elizabeth’s home over the Christmas 2015 holiday for 4 days. I selected this house as it was central to all of the places I would be visiting over the holiday, plus it was very close to a lake (I had hoped to be able to cross-country ski.)

The house and room were just as Elizabeth described and it was very cozy. I was delighted to have a refrigerator and a hot water kettle available, allowing me to make breakfast and tea (important!) before beginning the day.

At first, I was a bit leery of crashing with a family during the holidays (I didn’t want to be in anyone’s way) but Elizabeth and her kids didn’t seem phased by it, so that put me at ease. In fact, I hardly saw anyone after the day I checked in!

The location is in a very nice neighborhood, just a very short walk away from Cedar Lake which connects easily to Lake of the Isles and Lake Calhoun so it was nice to be able to walk off all the holiday eating before beginning again each day. It wasn’t cold/snowy enough to cross-country ski (for which Elizabeth apologized, ha!) but was still a very pretty walk.

This was my first foray into Airbnb and have to say I am impressed and will be using this service again!