GrandTour58759296345
April 23, 2024
£258 plus £12 for breakfast seems a lot for a single night for a solo traveller in a budget hotel, but it was the night before the London marathon so a great chance to fleece their customers. I stayed two nights and the second was ‘only’ £163 plus breakfast. There was ‘free’ wifi of course, but it didn’t work, of course! For only £5 per night I could purchase wifi that might work instead. Of course I didn’t! That’s the kind of trick I expect in cheap budget hotels, not budget hotels for the super-rich. The rest of my comments are the usual, mundane issues you find in such places; veneer peeling off the furniture, generic, all purpose toiletry liquid screwed to the walls, a fixed shower head that required a handstand if you wanted to wash anything other than the top of your head, two tea bags and three jiggers of hut milk on the welcome tray - no biscuits! A weird secondary glazed bedroom window arrangement which could be swung four feet into the bedroom if you wanted some air. Breakfast was relatively poor quality, as was the evening meal. I’m sure some people will still go there - but don’t say I didn’t warn you!