I liked the:
- size: very spacious;
- view of wooded ravine from living room;
- homely feel of living room;
- comfortable bed;
- lack of traffic noise;
- beautiful road in which house is situated;
- nearby trails;
- responsiveness of hosts to my requests and their concern to put things right quickly;
- gift card from hosts for the trouble I'd been caused;
- new electric kettle from hosts to replace stovetop kettle.
I didn't like the following:
- Lack of basic provisions on arrival. Having just travelled from airport about 9 pm, I couldn't even make myself a hot drink.
- On arrival, the feeling of cold and damp. However, hosts quickly responded by turning on heating.
- Heating is controlled by hosts, although they were responsive to my requests for temperature changes.
- Heating system is very noisy.
- Accommodation appears rather scruffy in places, for example marks on walls and skirting board coming away from wall in bathroom.
- Accommodation was not cleaned very thoroughly, for example limescale on shower head, dirty oven.
- Nowhere in bathroom to hang clothes.
- No side plates in kitchen.
- No mirror in bedroom.
- Mould around washer door seal. I couldn't clean this off because it's become "permanent".
- There was no laundry basket. However, when I mentioned this, hosts immediately provided one.
- There appears to be no soundproofing around apartment. So, you can hear talking, footsteps, coughing and so on from hosts, though it's very quiet for most of the day.