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"lovely hotel"
I felt I had to write a review as i was a little anxious on my way down to london after reading some of the other reviews. 5 of us were staying in 2 rooms.
Firstly when we arrived we were greeted at the reception by friendly,
helpfull staff. We were given our swipe cards and off we went to our rooms. The guys room had a bathroom, tv and a double and single bed. Me and my fiance went into our room next door to theirs and found we had bunk beds! one phone call and ten minutes later we were transferred to a room with a double bed.
There were no tea or coffee making facilities in the rooms but there was a free machine in reception which had a wide variety of hot drinks, better than just the tea bags and sachets of coffee you usually receive in your room. Also there is no breakfast room, but you can buy a continental breakfast pack from reception to take to your room. Or there is a cafe round the corner that serves a good full english and pancakes :o)
Rooms were fairly small but plenty big enough. Pull out flat screen tv's on the wall and comfy beds. Fire doors in corridoors were silenced so didn't bang everytime people opened them and didn't hear any noise from other rooms.
I am guessing it is a recent refurb, very clean with nice fresh decor. Overall, a fabulous trip to london in a fabulous hotel :o)
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"Fills a Niche - Recommended"
I booked on lastminute and got a single room for €109. The room is small but full functional. The door from the corridor opens straight into bedroom. The room is taken up with a large queen or maybe king bed which occupies about 50% of the bedroom floor space. This might sound cramped, but it's fine. A flat screen TV is on a movable wall bracket above the bed. The bathroom/shower is in a seperate room, and is also pretty small, but clean and functional. There's free hot drinks from a machine in reception.
Like a previous review, there's a lot of fire doors and stairs (especially if the lift isn't working), so I wouldn't recommend it for people who have difficulty climbing.
Lastly, as also mentioned in other previous reviews, it's obviously been recently refurbished. You can still faintly detect the smell of fresh paint.
This hotel is not luxuruous. But it is clean and functional. In my opinion, this place is great as a central location - 5mins from West Kensington tube - you probably won't find better.
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Excellent value for money! Would go back, definetely!!"
I booked this hotel through Venere.com - booked for Olympia rooms - not sure why they differentiate, it's the same hotel. We paid £100 for a room for 4 people (room only, they do not offer breakfast but have coffe machine with free capuccino, expresso, hot chocolate, tea, etc).
The hotel has been renovated recently and looks lovely.
The staff are very pleasant and helpful, it was possible to leave our luggage in a secure room after the check out without extra charges.
The room was of good space, considering there were one double bed and two single beds. The bathroom was great, spacious, new and very clean. Beds are comfortable.
I would only say the window could be bigger and the curtains a bit darker, as the room was too hot to sleep (we were in the third floor and manage to sleep with the window open).
Also the lift was out of order and no one offer to take our luggage up (we were four women, one being a senior).
The location is excellent, near the underground, and seemed safe to walk during the night.
There are a couple of places nearby to have breakfast in the morning (the 'continental' one - green building, was very good!).
We would definetely return there.
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