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Location isn't everything

Advantages: Fantastic location, you're never far away from anything. Cheap.
Disadvantages: Rude staff, rooms in a state, out of date amenities, broken equipment.

I booked this room just as somewhere to put my head down for the night after a concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I wanted somewhere cheap(ish) in Kensington so I could walk it and not venture onto the tube in the forbidden hours. I found it via www.hote ...

badongism 24.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Ambassadors Hotel, London

Ambassadors Hotel

Advantages: ok value for money.
Disadvantages: The rooms are small

The hotel is centrally situated in Kensington and is easily accessible by the subway. It is situated on a corner of a quiet road in itself. Next to the building is a one-way street where we have parked our car. The Gloucester Road underground station and ...

JL132 26.04.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Ambassadors Hotel, London

Nice Hotel --- You get what you pay for

Advantages: location, price, staff
Disadvantages: no minibar

My wife and I took a vacation and decided to stay there. The room was a bit small but very kept. The location was superb, only minutes away from Gloucester Road, Hyde Park and tube stations. The staff in the hotel were always friendly to us. One night ...

ingatz 11.08.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Ambassadors Hotel, London

Thistle do... just about

Advantages: It does the job
Disadvantages: The staff could do theirs better

Location Central Street, London isn't the easiest place to find. Arriving as I do at Liverpool Street station, I'd figured out that it was one-stop to Bank on Central, then two to Old Street on the Northern. So far so good. Then turn right (or a ...

hiker 17.03.2013 · Read full review
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Review of Thistle City Barbican, London

Good value, comfortable hotel.

Advantages: Service, room facilities, price
Disadvantages: Location - it is slightly out of the centre, takeaway breakfast

I stayed here in mid August 2008 for one night. I needed a cheap room at short notice which could accommodate my wife, daughter and me and finding a match for this criteria in London wasn't an easy task! After checking for Travelodges without success I sa ...

Arboy1971 18.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Thistle City Barbican, London