With five nights in London for a family holiday it was important to be close to transportation. Of course, you are always fairly close to transportation in London. But, we had plans for Bath Spa, so Paddington was the perfect location for our itinerary.
Everything about the apartment was accurately described in the listing. The only thing omitted was the noise you will experience from construction outside if you plan to sleep in. We didn't care about sleeping in, so not a bother at all. However, our neighbor above had other plans between midnight and 4 AM most evenings, which was annoying. We understand older apartments have this, and most tune it out. I would suggest earplugs. The other annoyance was the beaming green light from the aircon in the master bedroom. Bring eye masks, or you will feel like the Terminator stares at you all night. I didn't want to write this review until we could stay in other Paris, Venice, and Florence properties. Areas of improvement could be spent on little things like the knobs on the master bedroom drawer that fell off and replacing the artwork on the bedroom wall. This is nitpicking, but when you spend your money on this apartment, you expect not to find such things. Again, this is nitpicking—one last thing of note. I got the sense I was being a bother with the constant exclamation points at the end of sentences when asking about the possibility of an early check-in. We were not told until the day we arrived we could check in a little early.