WELCOMES
Males,Females,Students,Couples,FamiliesRESPONSE RATE
98%RESPONSE TIME
within a few hours
WELCOMES
Males,Females,Students,Couples,FamiliesRESPONSE RATE
98%RESPONSE TIME
within a few hours
Breakfast
(Free)
Lunch
(Free)
Dinner
(Free)
Vegetarian meals
Free
Wi-Fi
One way
GBP
55.0
Free
Free
English
GBP 30.0
Per hour
Cosy home with welcoming family
Nice cosy house in a leafy area, close to the park and within easy reach of Central London
I specialise in providing programmes for teenagers, including English study (I am a qualified teacher)...
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Nice cosy house in a leafy area, close to the park and within easy reach of Central London
I specialise in providing programmes for teenagers, including English study (I am a qualified teacher), and Boarding School Preparation
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Smoking not allowed
Dog
No smoking indoors
7 ~ 365 day(s)
Loft room
Type(size)
Bathroom
Description
Facilities
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For two people (Per night) |
For one person (Per night) |
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|---|---|---|
| Up to 6 nights | GBP 137 | GBP 89 |
| 7 to 29 nights | GBP 136 | GBP 79 |
| 30 nights or more | GBP 136 | GBP 79 |
GBP 137 GBP
Room price (Per night)
There are frequent trains to the centre (Victoria - Buckingham Palace) from our closest train station. The journey train journey takes around 20 mins and the walk to the station takes around the same...
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There are frequent trains to the centre (Victoria - Buckingham Palace) from our closest train station. The journey train journey takes around 20 mins and the walk to the station takes around the same. It takes 20 to 25 mins to walk to Tooting Underground station, and from there it's a 20 min tube journey to the centre.
I am a qualified and experienced English teacher and can offer lessons in the home tailored to your specific needs.
We live in a nice warm family home in a safe and leafy part of London. We are close to a beautiful park with playground, tennis courts and even an outdoor swimming pool - the largest in Europe!
I have hosted more than a hundred students over the last eight years, mostly children and these days my guests tend to most often be between the ages of 14 and 18. Guests have come from all over the world, but particularly from Russia, Spain and France. My longest term guest was from China and stayed with us between the ages of 14 and 17!
We have many hobbies and interests between us. My youngest daughter, who is 13, is particularly interested in sports and plays tennis at National level, and cricket, table tennis and squash at County/Regional level.
I enjoy cooking and travel, and have a particular interest in cultural exchanges. My 17 year old daughter likes drama, socialising. music and travel. She enjoys going to talks, for example political or philosophical, and she is also very interested in improving her Spanish by any means available to her -she recently worked for three weeks as an au pair in Spain.
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Near Buckingham Palace ( London, England, United Kingdom)
40 minutes By public transportation
20 minutes by walking
I stayed in the home of Katrina and her children for one year while I studied at London and I can recommend her very sincerely. K...
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I stayed in the home of Katrina and her children for one year while I studied at London and I can recommend her very sincerely. Katrina was a kind and thoughtful host who always made the time for me which helped me a lot while I settle in to my life in London. She has come to see me in Istanbul after this together with her children and it was my great pleasure to host them here. Katrina's home is cosy and decorated tastefully and it is easy to get everywhere from this area. Katrina also cooks nice food and I enjoyed very much our dinner together and talking. I hope I can visit again soon!
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English 
French
German
Spanish
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Hitomi
Japan
Staying in Katrina's house was a nightmare and a hell.
I stayed her house with my 4years old child, but I strongly regret b...
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Staying in Katrina's house was a nightmare and a hell.
I stayed her house with my 4years old child, but I strongly regret booking.
First of all, her house is messy and dirty. Some food in the fridge get moldy and rotten.
”Carbonara” she made tastes bad. Should avoid getting the meal there. The area she lives is unsafe. Really far from central of London.
Most of all, I exeperienced a hell as below.
She required me to pay ￡850 (whole accomodation fee for 5 nights) in cash on arraival day though she did not mention about the way to pay or the timing to pay.
I told her that I did not have whole of ￡850 in cash at that time(I travelled with my small son for long way). Then she took us to a cash dispenser in the unknown town by a car and forced me to withdraw 850 pounds immediately and pass her ￡850 in front of the cash dispenser.
I withdrew money, but I felt her behaivior was strange. So, I told her that I would like to pay, but giving such amout of money to you outside is not appropriate and also let me check the detail of booking at your house (because I did not had the SIM and could not connect the internet outside, so I needed to go back her house to check homestay.com page etc.).
Then she cried "Get out! Get the hotel" and left suddenly. I did not know where there was and could not connect to the internet, but got the taxi to go to her house.
She denied us to enter her house and kept holding our passport and belongings.
After all, the last way for us to get other hotel and go to the police. The police called her, but she continued requiring me to pay whole acoomodation fee even though I stayed just one night. Finally, I suceeded in getting my passport and belongings by paying ￡500 to her. However, although I asked her to give me our belongings and passports as soon as possible, she denied that due to warking with her dogs. My Apple divice which was in my suitcase is missing.
It was nightmare.
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