I have 2 DC at uni. Both just finished first year (DC1 took a gap year). We live in London. Both DC are at uni elsewhere but are home for the summer (when not travelling). We have found that they have had (and are planning to have) quite a few friends to stay, not just for socialising but also because friends need somewhere to stay in London. For example, DC2 had 3 uni friends (or rather 2 friends plus a friend of one of them) staying this weekend as they had tickets for a gig in London (not DD's cup of tea so she did not go herself but she was happy to see them and hang out before and after). We don't mind as we have space and quite like the hustle and bustle of having young people around (felt far too quiet when DC went off to uni in Sept).
However, i am conscious that next summer some of their friends might be looking to do internships etc in London and did overhear one friend raise the possibility of being able to stay here for month next summer if she manages to get a vacation scheme at a London law firm. It was very much a passing comment to be fair, not a firm request but it did get be thinking, hence this post.
I am also from outside London and remember being in the same position, and managed internships through a mix of staying with friends who grew up in London for a week or two here and there, and some time staying with a friend who had rented a student room for the summer. Having been in the position, my instinct is to be helpful, but appreciate that if we are talking weeks rather than days there are likely to be times when they are here but DC are not and not sure how i feel about that. Maybe it will never happen and they will realise that it is better to rent student rooms, but i know financially it is tough already for students and that my DC are in a fortunate position to have free London accomodation.
So just wondered whether others who live in London have found the same thing, and if so whether you have been accomodating/set ground rules etc. so that I am prepared if the requests come in!