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Sol Meliá is a leading hotel company in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean. The company provides more than 350 hotels in 30 countries under its Meliá Hotels, TRYP Hotels, Sol Hotels and Paradisus Resorts brands.
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Location. The Melia White House Hotel is located one block from Regent's Park in London, ... more
England. The Great Portland Street Underground Station is positioned 91 metres away. Hotel Features. This star shaped hotel features a marble lobby that radiat...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Location. The Melia White House Hotel is located one block from Regent's Park in London, ... more
England. The Great Portland Street Underground Station is positioned 91 metres away. Hotel Features. This star shaped hotel features a marble lobby that radiat...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Located next to Regent's Park, Melia White House is a smart and well-located hotel with ... more
luxurious rooms. Oxford Street and Piccadilly Circus are within walking distance. L'Albufera restaurant offers fine Spanish cuisine, and The Place restaurant is ide...
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The Melia White House Hotel is located one block from Regent's Park in London,England.The ... more
Great Portland Street Underground Station is positioned 91 metres away.The Melia White House features a marble lobby that radiates eclectic décor with a sleek,bla...
The hotel is located within easy walking distance of Oxford Street and Piccadilly Circus ... more
The city London's financial district is only a short taxi ride away Melia White House is located in a privileged area next to the famous Regent's Park home to the...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: Central location... Disadvantages: ...everything else...
**PROPERTY LADDER**
Sol Meliá is a leading hotel company in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean. The company provides more than 350 hotels in 30 countries under its Meliá Hotels, TRYP Hotels, Sol Hotels and Paradisus Resorts brands.
Meliá White House Hotel in London's Regents Park area has completed a major £30 Million refurbishment programme and was re-launched in Spring 2002 as one of London's leading 4 star deluxe ... ...The hotel has 582 rooms distributed on 8 floors, including 285 double rooms, 66 superior deluxe rooms, 69 Junior Suites, 3 Master Suites and 159 rooms are reserved for the "Servicio Real" (Royal Service for Executives). There are 9 conference, meeting & banqueting rooms (with secretarial services are available on request).
All rooms have a private bath & shower with hair-dryer and magnifying mirror, air-conditioning, direct ... more
**PROPERTY LADDER**
Sol Meliá is a leading hotel company in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean. The company provides more than 350 hotels in 30 countries under its Meliá Hotels, TRYP Hotels, Sol Hotels and Paradisus Resorts brands.
Meliá White House Hotel in London's Regents Park area has completed a major £30 Million refurbishment programme and was re-launched in Spring 2002 as one of London's leading 4 star deluxe hotels.
**CHANGING ROOMS**
The hotel has 582 rooms distributed on 8 floors, including 285 double rooms, 66 superior deluxe rooms, 69 Junior Suites, 3 Master Suites and 159 rooms are reserved for the "Servicio Real" (Royal Service for Executives). There are 9 conference, meeting & banqueting rooms (with secretarial services are available on request).
All rooms have a private bath & shower with hair-dryer and magnifying mirror, air-conditioning, direct dial telephone and modem connection, radio, satellite TV with remote control, complimentary tea/coffee, in-room safe and trousers press. 24-hours Room Service is also available.
The Royal Service programme is ideal for business travellers and includes: Deluxe accommodation with privileged check-in and check out facilities, exclusive access to The Royal Service Lounge where you can enjoy a complimentary full English breakfast, all day tea, coffee and beverages, afternoon tea and an open bar and canapés (6 p.m. - 11 p.m.). You can also book a private meeting room (max 6 persons) complimentary for an hour. A full selection of newspapers is also available on request.
**FOOD & DRINK**
There is a Breakfast buffet available at "La Albufera Restaurant" which specialises in Mediterranean cuisine.
The dining restaurant "Oberture" serves a selection of international dishes.
"Longford´s Bar" situated just off the main lobby, is open daily from 8 a.m. until late offering a selection of wines, spirits, cocktails and snacks.
**LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION**
The hotel is located next to Regent's Park and close to Oxford Street and Piccadilly Circus. The hotel is well served by three underground stations: Warren Street, Great Portland Street and Regents Park - all of which are within easy walking distance.
Paddington, Marylebone and Kings Cross mainline train stations are all within a 5-10 minutes taxi ride away. Heathrow Airport is about 45 minutes away by car.
Local attractions include: Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, The Planetarium, Regents Park (London) Zoo, Piccadilly Circus (Shops!), Oxford Street (more shops!), and Buckingham Palace (if you want to travel a bit more)…
**THE MONEY PROGRAMME**
A standard double en-suite room for two adults costs £89.00
A superior double en-suite room for two adults costs £93.00
Both prices quoted do not include breakfast.
Christos and I paid £49.00 each for a standard double en-suite room (which included breakfast) - I found this special offer available from: www.superbreak.com
- it's always well worth shopping around!
Hotel's Contact details:
Meliá White House Hotel Albany Street, Regents Park London NW1 3UP Tel: (+44) 207 3913000 Fax: 44/207/3876788 Email: melia.white.house@solmelia.com
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The main reason I selected this hotel was for its central location. It also looked nice and the special offer of staying at a 4 star hotel for practically half the usual price had to be investigated.
~~~~~~~~~~~~ Was it worth it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~
On arrival, the lobby was an impressive show of marble floors and walls: all the décor was very continental. [One point worth mentioning: if you suffer from asthma or have an allergy to cigarette/cigar smoke, then this definitely is NOT the place for you - the lobby was thick with smoke].
It then transpired that most, if not all, of the staff either were Spanish or spoke Spanish as their second language. Not a problem, but it wasn't something I was expecting in Central London.
Checking in was similar to waiting in line at the Post Office for the next available clerk - but without the organisation that goes with it. The whole process took about 15-20 minutes. The receptionist seemed more concerned with chatting to colleagues than getting our room key. Hm…
The room was very drab. All tones of dark brown and beige - hardly letting in any natural light at all.
Whoever designed the room had a thing for mirrors: I've never seen so many reflective surfaces and mirrors in one room before! There were mirrors behind the bed's headboard as well as floor-to-ceiling mirrors on the cabinet doors beside the bed… Christos and I even joked the mirrors could be two-way spying devices!
The bed was HUGE (as in it could easily sleep three people)… but it wasn't a comfortable mattress… (probably because of excessive use… *ahem*)
The bathroom was a disappointment - all black marble (nice and jolly, eh?!), no toiletry storage space and only complimentary shower gel was provided: and this is meant to be four star quality?
For one night's stay the room served its purpose. I'm very glad we only paid £49.00 for it (but I felt that £49 should have been the grand total, rather than per person).
Breakfast served at "La Albufera Restaurant" was an experience.
We arrived around 8am and were spoken to in Spanish (!) automatically - luckily I figured out what the waitress said and replied in English, which is when it dawned on her that not all guests were Spanish speaking!
Anyway, she escorted us to a table and left us there.
Another waitress asked (in Spanish) if we'd like tea or coffee. We gave our requests (in English) and she left us to our own devices.
The room seated about 60 people and the layout was very odd: the buffet was at the far end of the room rather than being situated centrally within easy reach of all tables - so you had to traipse past several diners to get what you wanted.
Off we went to check out what was on offer:
There was a limited selection of fruit juice (the carrot juice and apple juice was fresh, but the orange juice was concentrated).
A choice of bread rolls, croissants, Danish pastries and pain au chocolat was displayed (but looked hard and unappetising).
There was a cold meat and cheese board, a salad bar (the lettuce had seen better days!) and a hot buffet of: runny scrambled eggs, over cooked fried eggs, bacon, par-boiled mushrooms, individual Spanish omelettes, sausages and hash browns.
As you can imagine, with such choices we didn't bother with much of it.
When booking through superbreak.com your reservation is paid for in full - which means that check-out is speedy (I've used this service before, so I know it's true). However, at this hotel we spent a further 20 minutes waiting to hand back our room key to the receptionist who eventually told us we were "free to go" - music to our ears!
It's safe to say, £30 Million refurbishment programme or not, there is no way I would book a room here again.
Advantages: Excellent decor, great Regents Park location - within 2 mins walk of 2 tube stations Disadvantages: 4 star decor not matched by corresponding room size
...at the 4 star Sol Melia White House in Regents Park, London after placing a winning bid of 74 pounds on the Priceline UK website (came to 91 pounds after taxes). Located in the deepest northern reaches of Priceline's Bloomsbury area of London it was further than we would have chosen from the center but this turned out not to be an issue. The Melia White House is easy to find and very well connected. it is located 2 minutes walk from Regents Park ... ...very good thing about the Melia White House is that it is marked on maps such as the London A to Z. Once you cross the major road from the tube stations it's very heard to miss, there are pedestrian crossings which make this easier. The lobby to the Melia White House instantly says 4 star. Although it has a low roof the decor and panelling is impressive. Checking in you suddenly realize that this hotel has teleported in from Madrid. The entire check ...
rihallix 13.11.2004
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Advantages: Good value, immaculate, 4 Star Disadvantages: Language problems
I stayed at the Melia White House hotel in June 2008, on my first trip to London. Finding our way from Heathrow T5 to the hotel, negotiating the underground, was surprisingly easy, as the hotel is situated within 5 minutes walk of Great Portland St underground station, just outside leafy Regents Park. Warren St and Regents Park underground stations are also within 10 minutes walk in either direction.
The hotel may not look a lot from the exterior, ... ...White House hotel is a Melia brand hotel, a brand you are probably familar with if you've ever been to Spain, being part of Sol Melia. A drawback to the hotel was that, as a Spanish hotel, all the staff were Spanish, and while in general, the staff spoke good English, there were some language problems, especially over the telephone. However these were all easily rectified, but if you do stay at this hotel, if you need anything, I would go straight ...
dbarcl10 15.08.2008
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Advantages: Good value for money Disadvantages: You speakee Engleeshhh?
Having read the inimitable Tiger Eyes’ wonderful review but negative experience of the White House Hotel it was with apprehension that I “looked forward” to staying there on an unavoidable pre-booked long weekend.
To make matters worse I arrived at the hotel at around 2.00 a.m. after a delayed flight. The reception area was very large, if a bit confusing for a befuddled mind…. Spreads out in a lot of directions and lots of ... ...looked a bit serious but my first pleasant surprise was to receive a complimentary upgrade to a large business-style room. It helped to create a good first impression! The room itself was large and nicely decorated. Very important to me, it had tea and coffee-making facilities. The television and air-conditioning were good. Some of the fixtures in the bathroom had not been changed in the refurbishment I suspected and the showers may cause problems ...
JoePoirot 08.08.2004
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...and i decided on the melia white house as i thought it looked nice and was in a medium price range. The hotel is conveniently located as it is only about 3-5 minutes walk from the great portland street tube station which means that it is easy to get to other parts of london from the hotel. Also it is not far from regents park and london zoo is a 30 minute walk. We also walked to the camden market as it was only about 10-15 minutes walk from london ... ...get to from heathrow airport as you can take the tube and you 0only have to make one change of tube line. When we arrived at the hotel it looked exactly like it did on the website with the reception area looking grand and having marble counters. Check in was done quick and efficiently although i did have a slight problem understanding the member of staff as he was not english and sounded like he was french but he did speak good english. We then went ...
mentalchic 03.09.2008
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Advantages: luxurious, clean, bright Disadvantages: expensive meals, small room
I stayed here for two nights over a weekend spent visiting friends who live in north london.
We booked through lastminute.com, and like other reviewers, got an excellent deal of £89 per night B&B.
We arrived via tube and found the hotel easily a short walk away. I was really pleased walking into the lobby. It was clean, bright, fresh flowers everywhere - i thought it was beautiful However, having read another reviewer's comments on arriving after ... ...space, i can understand what they meant. I thought it was fantastic, though, arriving with plenty of time to admire the space.
The receptionist was very formal, but efficient. There was no banter or smiles!
The lifts themselves are an experience, and my boyfriend loved them - basically you put your floor number onto a dial which is in front of the lift, the lift arrives and takes you to your destination. I am sure kids and gadget-loving people ...
claire.wizzbiz 18.04.2008
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