Guest User
January 26, 2024
When I say cost-effective I don't mean cheap: the room size was well above anything that could be called cheap, but the bill was half of what I have paid in the past for a much smaller room; it was really good, with 2 growing children, not to feel crammed in. The hotel itself is a row of terraced houses, with shops at street level and private car park behind. In addition to retaining many original features - the fireplace filled in in favour of central heating, but not removed - the conversion to hotel has given the building something of a Heath Robinson quality: there are no corridors above ground level, with rooms coming off landings. etween the landings there are mezzanine levels with bathrooms and kitchens, and adjacent landings connect, via short flights of stairs and a fire door, to the landing in the adjacent 'house', which is were the Heath Robinson quality comes from: terrible for disabled access, but great fun in getting from your room to the car! The kitchens were a welcome surprise as they allowed further cost savings on evening meals, from the supermarket over the road, rather than takeaway as we had originally intended. In short, what we had intended as merely a cheep place to stay while we visited London became a part of the attraction in it's own right.