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I stayed at the Melia White Househotel 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, however step inside and the reception is bright, airy and spacious. The reception area is immaculate and covered in marble, and expensive looking antiques.
The hotel has 581 rooms over 8 floors (283 Classic rooms, 158 Superior rooms, 28 Triple rooms, 62 Executive Level rooms, 42 Junior Suites, 2 Master Suites, 1 Residential Suite and 5 Disabled rooms).
We were booked into a Classic room, without breakfast, but upgraded at reception to a Level room. This is the third top type of room, where your room is slightly upgraded with a small sitting area, however the main benefit is that you gain access to the private area for The Level guests. This private lounge area serves soft drinks and snacks throughout the day for free, with complimentary alcoholic drinks and tapas served from 6pm. A complimentary continental or English breakfast is also available in the Lounge. The upgrade also entitles guests to 10% off in the two main restuarants. The Level guests also have a private reception desk offering priority check in/out, as well as deluxe toiletries in the room and a pillow menu.
The upgrade cost just £60 a night, which was quite reasonable given the additional services available.
The room wasn't massive, but had everything we needed, a queen size bed, large wardrobe, iron and ironing board, TV, sitting area, trouser press and a very impressive art-deco style bathroom in black marble with a hairdryer. . The room was kept immaculate, and was services daily to a very high standard. The tea making facilities included a high range of tea and coffee, and came with biscuits.
The hotel offers a choice of two restuarants; L'Albufera, an award winning Spanish restuarant, rumoured to be the best Spanish restuarant in the world outside of Spain; and The Place, which is an informal restuarant offering a variety of Mediterranean dishes throughout the day. Longfords Bar, just beside the main reception area, offers a good range of drinks and cocktails throughout the day, and features regular jazz bands and pianists.
We ate at The Place restuarant, where I had Sea Bass. The fish was very fresh, and well cooked. The fish came with a variety of seasonal vegetables, and whilst it wasn't a big portion, it was just a perfect balance.
As I said, the hotel is in the Regents Park area of London, and is just a few minutes walk to the actual park. Oxford St was approx 10/15 minutes walk away, and there were 3 underground stations nearby, on different lines, making it very handy to get around London.
The 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 to reception rather than try to phone.
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