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Small Luxury Hotels of the World - the Academy
3.9/5110 Reviews

Small Luxury Hotels of the World - the Academy

Bloomsbury London|0.49km from St Giles International
The photos and website information about The Academy are incredibly deceptive about this boutique hotel. Sounded and looked lovely online and with a middling price of £188.00 per night B&B sounded a good choice for a solo mini trip to London. The reality was incredibly different. The hotel is scruffy and shabby and the loos smell of fish. Sadly, the service was non-existent and not at the level I would expect of a member of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World. I had a single room (which I chose as it was just me) on the ground floor overlooking the courtyard. It as very basic, but adequate and unlike the other reviews, it was quiet (except from the noisy air-con system). The en-suite was tiny, but the shower was reasonably powerful. As many have already mentioned, the room was stiflingly hot, with a small and inadequate air-con unit which struggled with the heat. I can only imagine what it would have been like when we had the 40C heatwave. I struggled to use the remote control device to work the air con and so, at 12.30am in my dressing gown, I went in search of someone to help me. Daniel came into my room and helped me to get the aircon working and it tried its best to cool the room down. By the next day, and with it on 24/7 the room did finally cool down. As someone else has also mentioned the lights from the aircon system lit up the whole room like a disco! The lights outside the room in the corridor also didn't turn off at night and so the room was bathed in a bright white light from outside and red, green and yellow lights from various fuse things in the room. So, once the air-con was working as best as it could, my attention then turned to the lights! I propped open the en-suite door to block out the light from the corridor, and then managed to pin and stuff towels and a spare pillow case over the disco lights to dim the bright glare. As you can imagine, the first night was a bit of a nightmare with not much sleep. Breakfast the next day was good and the staff in The Refectory were the first to greet me with a welcoming smile and were so helpful and attentive. The breakfast (and staff in the Refectory) have saved this review from being the lowest rating of Terrible. I am incredibly disappointed with my two night stay at The Academy and regret staying there. To finish on a positive note, the location was great and easy to walk to all the places that I wanted to walk to. So great location for Soho, Piccadilly, Covent Garden etc, but poor service and a tired and tatty hotel. So, Bloomsbury is super, just choose an alternative hotel.

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Mercure London Bloomsbury Hotel
3.8/5111 Reviews
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This hotel isn’t all bad. I wonder if I just had a lot of little things adding up to a bad experience. However. My room had no windows. I can live with that, but hadn’t expected it. The overhead skylight had a blind, but there was no way to close it. So there’s the worry about privacy, then early morning light came streaming in. My clothes iron was useless and the plug was loose. The replacement wasn’t any more effective. The phone in the room seemed to connect and disconnect itself from the network. When I needed to ring reception, I couldn’t. And overnight it would light up randomly. Every 45 minutes something clicked loudly. Presumably heating or plumbing, I never worked it out. But it kept disturbing me. None of these things are awful in themselves. But this morning I’m exhausted before I go off for the day. On the plus side, the room is clean and comfy. The bathroom clean and useable. There’s a pod coffee machine and guest mini fridge. The staff are friendly. Breakfast for me as a veggie was standard, which is fine. Honestly, I’d stay again, but never in that particular room.
Thistle London Bloomsbury Park
3.4/595 Reviews
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Everything is very good, except that the room is too small, the location is very good, and the room is very clean, but more than a thousand hotels than the domestic hotel ~ ah ~ understand the sprinkle
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4.4/5169 Reviews
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Love this hotel, we have stayed here several times. Always made to feel welcome, very helpful and make you feel like one of the family. Rooms are great everything you need from television tea and coffee and biscuits.Bath with a shower which i love. The beds are great, breakfast is first class and the hotel has a very central location to everywhere
President Hotel
4.2/5173 Reviews
Bloomsbury
A fantastic hotel to stay in. It is in a fantastic location, just a 2 minute walk from the nearest subway station. I cannot think of a single bad thing about this place. The staff were all really friendly and accommodating and the rooms were of a good size. Would definitely recommend!
Grange Beauchamp Hotel
3.9/5116 Reviews
Bloomsbury
Overall I had a very good stay. It is a short walk to Russel Square station on the Piccadilly line or Holborn station on the Central line. It is also quite handy to St. Pancreas station (20 minute walk). The British museum is around the corner. The room was comfortable, clean, quiet and had the best blackout blinds I have ever seen in a hotel. I deducted 1 star for a few small issues. The pillows seemed original to the hotel. Lumpy, odd sizes and not very pleasant. I also found it odd there was no mini-fridge in my room. It would have been nice to be able to store some cold drinks etc. There was a kettle to make coffee and tea. Great selection of teas but only instant coffee which wasn't as bad as I remember. The UHT milk and Lotus Biscoff biscuits were a nice added touch.
Thanet Hotel Annex
2.2/553 Reviews
Bloomsbury
This hotel is a complete ”bait and switch”... totally dated, dirty and dingy. The single-key-latched door was like an aged apartment. The photos on the website do NOT show an accurate picture of the room we stayed in. It was small and barely basic. Two single ”metal framed” beds with one pillow on one bed and two on the other, for some odd reason. Seemingly clean but very minimal. The window is a fire hazard... the outer (original) windows do not close and the inner windows do not open (due to the curtain rail impeding it). The place was tired and had peeling and cracked ceilings. The bathroom was a small all in one ”unit” as in an RV... all plastic... so compact that when you sat on the toilet your face barely missed the small sink... the shower unit directly in front. There was a short pull switch for the lighting in the bathroom and there were cigarette burns on the sink on the ledge behind the toilet. The TV was minute (about the size of a laptop) but we could not even switch it on... no remote and could not find a switch on the unit. No amenities whatsoever.. a towel with a sachet of soap.... no kettle or anything else. Linoleum floors and a small desk which was chipped and scratched. The toilet in the hallway reeked of urine. We told the reception we felt the room and the TV were tiny... not what we expected for the money. That was when we first arrived. We were staying for one night and decided to grin and bear it... after we returned much later.. after dinner and theatre.... we realised just how bad it was... but we were pretty stuck. The tiny table fan they gave after we requested it... was so cheap it fell apart as we handed it back as we left. All in all the worst hotel I have ever stayed in... I would only recommend people NOT stay there. We certainly will not ever again.

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