to decline their offer to stay?

[VelvetSpoon]

Have been invited to a gig in a few weeks. Not an area that's local enough to me to cab it back from, and public transport finishes long beforehand.

2 friends, A and B have each invited me to stay. Very kind of them. However

Friend A's boiler broke a couple of months ago. They have no heating or hot water (none, no immersion or anything). A goes to the gym every day and showers there, and isn't home much so claims not to notice the cold. It is however freezing, and the water in the taps is icy.

Friend B is a chronic hoarder. I could stay there (where there is hot water and some heating) but I'd be sleeping on a tiny sofa as the spare room (and pretty much every available surface including the floor) is covered in 'stuff'.

Much as I'd like to go to the gig, I really can't face a night at either house, lovely though A and B are!

WIBU to say no?

No kettle? I would be more concerned about not being able to have a cuppa in the morning. I would stay in A's though. Can't you take some wipes to freshen up with in the morning and just hang on for a shower until you get home?

She could simply say, sorry, it's too cold for me to friend A and to friend B, sorry, your sofa is too small for me.

Friend A KNOWS that she has no heating, and is willing to live like that. It's not exactly an insult is it? And Friend B will obviously know that the sofa is the only place that's clear enough to sleep on because of her hoarding, no need to mention it.

That's what I meant by as nicely as possible.