Perjalanan London - Hari ke 2 - Check in Airbnb Home - SOHO Chinatown Westminster Abbey

Kyaaaa... sudah terang saja pagi-pagi.

Ibis Style, hotel yang nyaman, terutama ada wifi dan mobile phone yang tersedia di kamar. Jadinya bisa checki checki perjalanan selanjutnya.

Breakfast walau sederhana tapi memenuhi selera. Buah, susu, roti-rotian, dan beragam cereal, selai dan teman-temannya.

Hotel ke Rumah
Rencana hari ini, Jam 12 Check out. Pesan uber menuju Fulham broadway, daerah rumah airbnb yg kami pesan, mengingat koper dan saya yang tak yakin stasiun yg terdekat ada lift nya. Hmmm bisa dibilang stasiun London termasuk stasiun tertua, selalu ada bagian naik tangganya.
Uber hanya terima kartu kredit - perjalanan kami 36£.

Daerah fulham broadway bukan di tengah kota, tp cukup strategis, jalan 1 menit sudah sampai stasiun kereta dan stasiun bus yang langsung menuju tengah kota.

Tp yang jadi pemikiran adalah, hampir semua hunian rumah airbnb itu tidak dilengkapi ac. Akan bagaimana kah malam ini? Panas kah? Ow ow ow...

Berfoto di depan pintu rumah

Penampakan depan rumah, ada 4 lantai

Gaya dulu. Mulai banyak gaya si Josh.

Jalanan depan rumah

SOHO - Chinatown - Westminster Abbey
Tidak berlama dan perut sudah lapar, kami lgsg naik Underground ke daerah SOHO.
Ajaibnya Underground tak ber ac. Panas.
Cari chinatown tetapi perut sudah lapar, langsung mampir ke chain restaurant - Angus House. Pesan steak. Secara rasa so so dan merasa makanan di Indo murah hahaha.
Karena summer, haiz, even restaurant tak ber ac. Gileee panas...

Sehabis makan, jalan jalan lihat sekeliling.

Our lunch time. Yang mana yang dekat- Angus House

Foto di gerbang Chinatown

Random Shoot - Samping Casino hehehe

Masuk ke Potrait Gallery dan National Gallery. 

Menarik nya memang museum disini gratis, hanya mendasarkan pada Donasi.
Menarik melihat lukisan di National Gallery. Pas juga lagi ada pameran lukisan Michaelangelo. Sayangnya karena papa mama sudah lelah, hanya saya dan calvin yang jalan jalan sekeliling melihat lukisannya. Ada banyak lukisan yang menggambarkan cerita dalam Alkitab. Kami belajar menikmati lukisan yang ada. Sayang tidak bisa lama. 

Dari kedua tempat ini, secara singkat kita melihat bagaimana Kekristenan mempengaruhi kehidupan di Inggris.
Salah satunya yang mengubah penghapusan Slavery diperjuangkan oleh seorang politikus William Wilberforce, dimana pandangan politiknya dipengaruhi oleh Alkitab.

Dibelakang mereka adalah Gedung Potrait Gallery

Sekarang foto depan gedung. Nah balonnya diikat disamping gerbang, tapi waktu kembali satu balon hilang.

Salah satu sudut Portrait Gallery

Duduk ditengah gallery

Praktek dengan kameranya

Lagi jalan ke area National Gallery

Iseng foto di jalanan. Josh you grown up

Sampailah di depan National Gallery. Ramai orang orang.

Tak sanggup jalan, duduk dulu di samping.

Nah inilah papa, menikmati lukisan lukisan

Mewah yah gedung museumnya. Banyak gedung seperti ini.

Salah satu bagian yang kusuka, Mozaic keramik dilantai.

Silauuu

Foto apa ini? Coba lihat ke arah lampu lalu lintasnya.
Yups aku menemukannya disekitaran area National Gallery, semua lalu lintas dimulai dengan lambang LGBT

Kami naik bus ke Westminster abbey. Nah ini yang buat Kaget, Bus pun hemat buka ac, alias panas. Oww.
Sayang sesudah sampai Westminster abbey harus tunggu minggu depan baru bisa masuk ke dalam. Mungkin sedang ada yang direnovasi.
Kami rencanakan untuk  balik tgl 27 sekalian melihat parade musikal Guard. Let see apakah akan sesuai rencana hehehe.

Foto foto saja dimanapun

Westminster yang ditutup

Belajar selfie 

Dinner pertama

Malam jam 7 yang masih terang benderang kita balik ke Chinatown makan di resto Four season. Review akan menu bebeknya enak. Tp menu yg lainnya so so.

Ini restaurant antri panjang biasa hari, dan dapatnya pun makan di basement.

Otw Rumah
Sehabis makan malam, langsung naik bus pulang ke rumah. Yang membedakan liburan di negara yang kita bisa bahasanya adalah pilihan transportasi bisa bus, taxi, underground, maksudnya bisa baca tulisan mau ke arah mana. *grin*
Ok, yg suka club sepakbola Chelsea? Club nya dekat banget dari rumah, tinggal jalan kaki.
Masih menyempatkan belanja sedikit sarapan untuk esok hari sampai jam 10 malam, matahari baru tenggelam.
Dan ternyata karena hari ini panas, malampun panas hiks.... hmmm tema liburan, belajar  bersyukur. Ingat Josh yang sedang batuk, memang tepay no ac. Jadi nikmatilah selama hari masih ada :). 19 June 2017

Experience with Airbnb and Musashi Koyama,Tokyo

This was my own experience with Airbnb and Apartment in Musashi Koyama Tokyo.
I have write this issue to Airbnb also, but didn't get any response by the time I wrote this down.

First time we try Airbnb was with our trip to Melbourne. We try out two places and they went out so well.
So with this trip to Tokyo, we like to try it again.

We booked it around January 2016 for our trip in 26 June - 7 July (10 nights).
The apartment was news at that time, but due to inexpensive price and close to station, it's become favorite to others as well.
By the time of our travel, the host has become a Super Host.

One day before Our flight 25 June, I left message to the Host, that we will meet soon.
From my both previous experience, usually the host contact us and send us message. But may be due to different culture and country, the treatment was different.

There was no replied, even when we transit at HK, from 6am to 9am in 26 June.
Arrived in Tokyo International airport, we was busy with buying train ticket and etc.
Arrived in Musashi Koyama, hmmm no one pick us up at the station.
Ok I will tried to find the house, no wifi available, so I just see the google map and tried to find out the place.

Then we arrived at the apartment door and no one there. Gosh........ We tried to call, but can't be connected.
I remember, I pass 7 eleven, and I got back there to connect to free wifi. From there I got the message that the Host was out of country, he couldn't get here because the airflight was postponed in China. He will arrived tomorrow. I can get in by took the key on the mail box.

My feeling was no good at all. I remember, I read one review on other premise, where the host became super host and the apartment was booked by alot of people, and some of them experience the house was in a mess.

And it is. When we get in, all room was in the mess. No cleaning up at all.
I really upset. Because this was my family holiday. I wish to rest on a clean place.

When I text the host. The host word was rude, he said to understand him and clean up by our self.

Actually I want to cancel this booking, but considering our time, my husband told me to be patient.
(at the end, I regret to not follow my instinct, I suppose to move whatever the cost, and later you will find out why).

Ok then, everyone could make mistake, and the previous guest was worse also. But as a host, he shall think of worse condition and asked someone else to clean up, instead of upsetting the guest.

Garbage not throwing.
No bathing amenities provided.
No portable wifi as promises. He said that previous guest took it.
I still have the picture showing how bad was the room.

At 27 June, he told us that his plane was postpone again. So he couldn't get to us.
Then at 28 June night, he arrived and clean all the house.

It's wasn't fair for us actually. But we keep to think positively and the host clean it, even though we find out later that below the sofa or bed, there lot of dust, so if you allergic to dust, it's can be worse.
He promise to give the wifi with 2 days processing time.

At 30 june, there was no info about when the wifi will be given.
At 1 July, he message us that, the wifi delivered to him at night and he will drop it on 2 July at 14.00 at the room.

The issue start here.
At 1 July, Calvin exchange money at the bank.
My mom not exchange all her money, and then she kept the rest USD 700 with Indonesia Rupiah inside the Envelope, inside the Wallet.
Then She put the Wallet inside the Luggage and below her clothes. You won't seen it if you just open the Luggage. And my mom luggage was near the wall and hard to reach area.

At  6 July around 10pm when we packed, night before we flight back to Jakarta, my mom check her wallet and her envelope and found out the 700USD was not in place.
We search all over the place and still not found it.

I message the host, and he said only he and us who have the key.
and he just drop the wifi and he said this never happen to his premise.

We have no prove and evidence of who did it, who was the thief, but we sure, somebody (whether the host or somebody else) has came inside this room and with an intention of stole something.
My mom didn't lock her luggage, but it's shall be someone with intention and who know we are away, and find time to search something and then stole the money.
Why didn't the thief take all the envelope? we just came into conclusion that the thief didn't us to realize something was missing. If my mom never checked inside the envelope, than we never know the money was stolen until we reach Jkt.
We think it over again, and another conclusion, this thief was professional already.

It's a painful experience as I was hope my mom as a survival cancer get a happy holiday, but it's just make her sad at the end of the trip. It was her saving.

I message Airbnb about the condition, but no reply.
I want to report it to the police, but time and language constraint really hard for us to finished it. And soon I regret it, I shall report it to the police, cause this prove the premise isn't save at all.
May be now just the money that stolen, but we didn't know what will be next?!.

The host didn't came to us when we check out. He just say to add one more hour for us to find it.
He didn't help to report it also. He said to not bring trouble to him.

So for this premise, it's start with not so good, and end with worse experience.