MIKA Accommodation

Basically an empty room with a bed and wardrobe and bathroom.
No bedside lamps or TV, and a shared kitchen with other residents that clearly do not welcome renters when you walk into the shared kitchen area.
Kitchen literally has a couple of knives and forks and some cups/saucers for espresso sized drinks, so couldn't really even make a drink and everything belonging to other residents is clearly marked as such.
Didn't matter to us but the room is on the top floor with lots of stairs to go up so perhaps not well suited to those with lots of luggage or mobility issues.
Check-in process worked but seems unnecessarily convoluted. You have to get to the High St then call and they text you a photo of the front door (an old one, what appears as HSBC in the pic is now Specsavers). Then when you get there you have to phone again and they tell you the code for the front door. I'm not sure why they don't simply text you all these details in advance. To find the property head to the road down the side of Primark, door to property is next to SpecSavers (black double doors).

Poor communication to gain access to the property. I was given both a phone and WhatsApp number and told to contact via the WhatsApp number. it was never answered so I phoned the mobile. The room was at the top of five flights of stairs. it was one room of a number of bed sits. The advertised kitchen was indeed a shared kitchen with the residents so we couldn’t use it. The pillows had no pillow cases. There were black hairs in the shower and the bed linen was not ironed.

Not a bad comment, but if you have luggage, there are a few stair flights you need to climb.

Heating broken

We had to wait at 6pm for an hour for someone to let us in and then another half hour for someone to clean it. We had arrangements at 630pm and were late.
The room was up 75 steep stairs and the last 20 were narrow. I had my hop replaced 4 months ago and did not expect such a climb. We had to leave after day 1 as too much for me.
There was no door between the bathroom and the bedroom. There was no bedside light. The bed linen was scratchy. It was pretty miserable

the mattress was still in its plastic packaging from purchase. this meant the sheet didn't stay on the bed and it was terribly noisy and awfully uncomfortable. so we had a poor night's sleep.

I'm sure it says somewhere that is up many stairs, I just didn't see this. this was fine for us but may not be for others.

Stressful check in. I was running late then they took ages to come to the accommodation to let me in. I didn't have my passport for ID which caused more stress but who does when aren't travelling abroad?

Noisy area of town

No reception no lift in the property

As there was no response, we were unable to check in

The stairs was an issue for me.

Room could do with some more amenities such as: hair dryer, shower gel, teas/ coffees etc. However, for the price and location you can easily go and grab these from a shop nearby.