The few good things are that it was furnished and everything worked in the kitchen. Also, there was a decent outdoor seating area and two free-use rooms that had AC. however, the bad outweighs the good.
○ unclean silverware; we cleaned everything before use
○ window barely opened at the top, leaving the fan as the best option for cooling; still extremely poor, and most of the time our room was usually hotter than the outside temp no matter what we did, leading to terrible sleep and consistent dehydration
• really stuffy room
• black mold just outside the window
○ really confusing room management; separate from the main student housing there
○ some staff members' English was hard to understand
○ we had our fire alarm go off three times during a single night: two shorter events after 11pm and one 10-20 second one after midnight. we were told it was sensing smoke but we cooked probably 5 hours before and had used the range hood.
○ most of the inside doors are heavy and slam shut (loudly). a select few cabinets in our room didn't slam
○ laundry is like £8+ for one load. in America, $5 already feels like a rip-off
○ the bathroom drain didn't drain well, so even a 5-min shower left you standing in a deep puddle. also no fan in there, so the bathroom made the main room feel like a breath of fresh air
This is the only place we stayed at in London. Hopefully other accomodations across the city are better, because pigs seem to have better living conditions in China.