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Our friend Bob, who was visiting the concert with us, was given leave to book a reasonably priced hotel in the area around The Criterion Theatre ~ so he looked on the Internet and chose two double rooms and one single room at The Regent Palace Hotel.
~~~Where is The Regent Palace?
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A short drive from Dubai International Airport, the 4-star Regent Palace Hotel is located ... more
exactly opposite the Burjuman Shopping Mall on the Dubai World Trade Center Road.The hotel is located right by the Burjuman metro station. It is 4 km from Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club and in walking distance from the main banking and business areas as well as the souks at Karama and Bur Dubai. It offers an easy access to the Jebel Ali/Abu Dhabi highway.A fantastic choice of dining options is offered, with various international restaurants serving high quality cuisine.All the elegant rooms and suites have spectacular views of the creek or Dubai's skyline. Indoor and outdoor swimming pools, gym, mini golf, and many other facilities are available at the Regent Palace Hotel. Horse riding can be arranged at the hotel..
Information: :Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
The Regent Palace Hotel, commissioned in early 1997, has since been the choice of ... more
discerning business and leisure travelers alike. It's ideal location in the heart of the main banking and business district of Bur Dubai on World Trade Centre Road, makes it a natural choice when visiting Dubai. Dubai, the second largest of the seven Emirates that make up the UAE, is located by the blue waters of the southern gulf and flanked by the majestic desert. Dubai is a place of fascinating contrast, a distinctive blend of modern city and timeless desert, east&west, old&new. Of its many attractions, shopping is certainly the biggest one. This along with the promise of a unique Arabian experience makes Dubai the ideal destination for leisure as well as business travelers.
Information: :Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
The Regent Palace Hotel, commissioned in early 1997, has since been the choice of ... more
discerning business and leisure travelers alike. It's ideal location in the heart of the main banking and business district of Bur Dubai on World Trade Centre Road, makes it a natural choice when visiting Dubai. Dubai, the second largest of the seven Emirates that make up the UAE, is located by the blue waters of the southern gulf and flanked by the majestic desert. Dubai is a place of fascinating contrast, a distinctive blend of modern city and timeless desert, east&west, old&new. Of its many attractions, shopping is certainly the biggest one. This along with the promise of a unique Arabian experience makes Dubai the ideal destination for leisure as well as business travelers.
Information: :Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Rooms: 144 soundproofed rooms equipped with bathroom, hairdryer, internet access, ... more
mini-bar, air conditioning, telephone, safe, cable and satellite tv, dvd, tea/coffee facilities, sofa bed, newspaper, iron and alarm clock. non-smoking rooms available. facilities: meeting room, business corner, car park, concierge, bar, restaurants, breakfast room, disco, internet, gym, sauna, jacuzzi, beauty salon and outdoor swimming pool.
With its central location, Regent Palace Hotel is within easy reach of most tourist ... more
attractions and business addresses in Dubai. All hotel's guestrooms have all the conveniences expected in a hotel in its class to suit guests' utmost comforts. Each guestroom is tastefully appointed with non smoking rooms, air conditioning, bathrobes, daily newspaper, hair dryer, ironing board, in room safe, television. This beautiful Dubai accommodation provides room service 24hr, executive floor, elevator, bar/pub, laundry service/dry cleaning, meeting facilities , restaurant, room service to suit all guests' utmost convenience. To unwind, guests can enjoy the leisure facilities provided on the hotel's property, including massage, pool indoor, jacuzzi, golf course (on site), gym/fitness facilities. This hotel is characterized by a combination of modern comfort and traditional element of Dubai, making it a distinct accommodation. To book a room easily at the Regent Palace Hotel, please submit your travel dates and proceed with our secure online booking form.
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Advantages: Cheap, excellent location. Disadvantages: Grubby and bad check in.
...one single room at The Regent Palace Hotel.
~~~Where is The Regent Palace?
You will find the hotel just off Regents Street and Piccadilly Circus, overlooking the statue of Eros, and not far from Shaftsbury Avenue, Oxford Street and, of course, The Criterion Theatre. We travelled to London on the cheap bus service called Megabus (a return to London for £2.00 each plus a 50p booking fee), so we had to get to the hotel ... ...rooms have no facilities and Regent rooms have bathrooms). It also gets pretty busy during the week with business guests, so there may not be another room to swap to if yours isn’t right.
~~~Check In & Check Out.
You can’t check into your room until 2pm on the day of arrival and when you do, make sure you allow plenty of time to do so. There is a queuing system for the reception and you have to fill in a form with all ... more
During my hectic September, travelling to and fro on a quest for beer and music, we spent two days in London to go to the last concert in Rick Astley’s UK Tour, meaning that we had to spend a night in a central London hotel. I must point out that the hotel was booked for us, paid for by Rick Astley (name dropper) and picked purely for its location rather than anything else.
Our friend Bob, who was visiting the concert with us, was given leave to book a reasonably priced hotel in the area around The Criterion Theatre ~ so he looked on the Internet and chose two double rooms and one single room at The Regent Palace Hotel.
~~~Where is The Regent Palace?
You will find the hotel just off Regents Street and Piccadilly Circus, overlooking the statue of Eros, and not far from Shaftsbury Avenue, Oxford Street and, of course, The Criterion Theatre. We travelled to London on the cheap bus service called Megabus (a return to London for £2.00 each plus a 50p booking fee), so we had to get to the hotel from Greenline Station (not far from Victoria bus station).
The nearest tube station to the hotel is Piccadilly Circus ~ we took the Victoria Line to Green Park and then the Piccadilly Line to Piccadilly Circus (it is also on the Bakerloo Line). When you come out from the Underground you can almost see the Regents Palace towering over you! (For other methods of reaching the hotel please go to http://www.regentpalacehotel.co.uk/htm/directions.htm)
~~~How much did we pay?
Well, once we get the money back it won’t cost us anything! For now, we paid £59 pounds per room ~ this is the internet booking price for a double room with shower room, toilet and tea and coffee making facilities. Prices and rooms vary and many of the rooms do not have toilets or bathrooms (only include a washbasin and toilets and showers are shared between a few rooms).
There are 920 rooms, but please pick your room carefully if you want private facilities (Standard rooms have no facilities and Regent rooms have bathrooms). It also gets pretty busy during the week with business guests, so there may not be another room to swap to if yours isn’t right.
~~~Check In & Check Out.
You can’t check into your room until 2pm on the day of arrival and when you do, make sure you allow plenty of time to do so. There is a queuing system for the reception and you have to fill in a form with all your details before you join the queue ~ if you forget you may be sent to the back of the queue again too. As the hotel is pretty cheap for such a good location the reception was always very busy and the check in time was long and quite chaotic! We joined the correct queue and found some people were attempting to bypass the queue and sneak in from the other end ~ thankfully the staff usually noticed this and sorted them out!
We had a bit of an arduous time at the Reception desk ~ the girl didn’t speak great English and was also a trainee. I felt quite sorry for her, but also got a bit fed up of waiting for her to ask how to do everything and for her to work out how to use the computer and the credit card machine! This wasn’t the poor girl’s fault and she should have been adequately supervised and given correct training.
Check out is easy if you have already paid for your room. There is a box in reception so you just put your key cards in it and leave ~ SIMPLE!! Check out time on your departure day is a very reasonable midday too.
~~~The Room.
Once we had been given our key cards (two per room) we took the lift up to our room (we were only on the second floor but were very tired and had a bag each). On entering our room my first thought was that it had a funny lemon and disinfectant type smell.
The window was open and there was quite a lot of noise from the street below. This was fair enough, due to the location. Fair enough until we found out that the window wouldn’t shut and we couldn’t block out the sound. The room was also quite old and shabby looking, the telephone was precariously attached above the bed (but did work) and the bathroom/toilet was about the size of a portaloo!
I told reception about the window on the way out for a look round (I had to join the huge queue again to do this) and was told that someone would come and look at it tomorrow. As we were leaving tomorrow this didn’t help us and we were told that we could move later but only to a room with no bathroom. No other help was offered and as we it was a warm night and we were only staying the one night we just let it lie.
I also found out during the night that although our room was non-smoking it was directly above a smoking floor and you could smell the smoke coming through from below when you went into the bathroom. The carpets were quite dirty and worn, the bed-linen threadbare (but clean), the wallpaper was also worn, the surfaces were a little grubby and the whole room had just generally seen better days. This was despite our rooms being the ones that had (apparently) been recently refurbished to add the private portaloo (sorry…bathroom).
The rooms were so small and there wasalso a rather alarming step out of the bathroom, making going to the loo at night a scary experience. I wouldn't recommend anyone with mobility difficulties using the room I had ~ I don't know if any rooms were more suitable for disabled guests (but I very much doubt it!).
~~~Facilities.
In the reception area there is a souvenir shop selling the ubiquitous Union Jack items and model London buses, etc. There was also an Irish bar called O’Callaghan’s ~ this had entertainment and served drinks until about one am (and then kicked the drinkers out into reception to drink up! Food was provided by a café (called Café Nescafe), which also provided any room service you may require and a Harry Ramsdens Fish and Chip Restaurant.
We ate and drank outside the hotel, so didn’t take advantage of the Breakfast Buffet either. There were plenty of places to eat and drink within easy reach ~ we had dinner at the nearby Aberdeen Steak House and lunch at the pub next door (serving Real Ale and a very reasonably priced lunch selection).
We also found there were vending machines on each floor ~ one for drinks and one for snacks in case you felt the need during the night!
There is a laundry in the hotel, as well as an ironing room and three reasonably sized (if a bit erratic) lifts.
~~~Conclusion.
Location wise, this hotel was ideal for our needs. It was also bearable (JUST) for a one night and a good price for such a centrally located place. I think I may have complained more if I had been staying longer (or wasn’t getting my money refunded) but, from what I could see of other people complaining, there didn’t seem to be much being done to help. There were quite a few customers waiting to see the manager too ~ and I don’t think they were waiting to pay compliments!
It is probably true to say that you get what you pay for, but I do expect certain standards to be met. Although generally tidy, the rooms and communal areas just seemed grubby and tired. The Regent Palace hotel is a two star hotel, so I didn’t go there expecting to be in the lap of luxury! That said, I did expect a decent level of service and help in sorting out problems.
So….if you want a decent(ish) budget hotel in a great place for visiting the tourist areas of London, and aren’t too bothered about comfort, then this is a nice choice. If you are expecting to have a late night and don’t have trouble sleeping in a noisy location, then this is ALSO the right place to stay. If you want a nice hotel for a luxury, romantic break, then this is NOT the accommodation you should be booking. We enjoyed our stay and would probably even stay there again for the convenience and low price.
But….don’t expect too much and check thoroughly you are getting the right room for your needs! ~~~Hotel details.
Regent Palace Hotel 1 Glasshouse Street Piccadilly Circus London W1A 4BZ
...I looked at featured the Regent Palace and each time it appeared I ignored it; after a luckless hour or so I was forced to concede defeat. It looked like we would be going straight home. There was only one option available - increase the budget. And this is how we came to stay at the Regent Palace Hotel - and the budget didn't even have to be increased. I was surprised to find that we could book a double room with private bathroom for the princely ... ...the plushest part of the Regent Palace; climb the stairs or walk the corridors and you'll find the reality is a little different - threadbare carpets, chipped paintwork, big dents in the walls and in some places pictures have been taken down and you can see what colour the walls were originally. It's not much better in the rooms where threadbare carpet and faded curtains await you once again. With barely enough room to swing a cat you'll be glad ...
fizzytom 11.08.2005
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Advantages: Location, location, location Disadvantages: Value outweighs anything else
...We found lastminute.com advertising the Regent Palace Hotel at a very good price so booked with a bit trepidation as it was said to be in the heart of Picadilly and at £66 per night per double ensuite room, wouldn't you be sceptical?
But what a great choice. OK, it wasn't the lap of luxury but when it said heart of Picadilly, they weren't kidding! You come off the underground following signs for Regent Street and there, across the road is the hotel.
... ...entertainment complex right next door (which I've forgotten the name of). The hotel doesn't do breakfast but is attached to an Irish bar which does food all day at reasonable cost and is only a five minute walk from Chinatown with all of it's restaurants, ten minutes from Leicester Square and fifteen from Covent Garden. It also has a restaurant called the Atlantic right in the basement where you can go for a good two or three course pre-theatre dinner ...
JanD1 18.11.2003
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Advantages: Fantastic central location. Very cheap. Disadvantages: Poor standards,
...the internet I found the Regent palace at a budget price of £59.00 for an ensuite room, not including breakfast but that didn't bother us as we only wanted somewhere central to sleep. We parked the car at Euston and caught the tube to picadilly circus, after we left the tube station we were expecting to see the Regent palace, but it was not the case, I had the print out with the details...... over looking eros. We could see Eros but not this grand ... ...side street, first impression was that it looked old but ok. The reception looked very impressive, and I was plesantly suprised, we checked in after about a 5 minute wait, the staff were friendly but not english so concentration was needed to hear what they were saying to us.
We got our key and started up the stairs to our 3rd floor room, there was a couple of lifts but there was also quite a que for these. As we went up the stairs the decor was ...
clairemg 21.03.2006
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Advantages: Big, Centered, Somewhat Cheap Disadvantages: Not The best Rooms In The World
...year, I went to the Regent Palace in Picadilly for a short 3-day weekend trip to London, as a break from work. Centered just off Picadilly Circus, which is one of the most publicised places in London, it has good access to the London Underground, a whole range of resteraunts and is just off Piccadilly's Chinatown.
Starting with the reception. As you go in, it has a shop to your right and a cafe to your left. The Regent Palace offers an Internet ... ...However, the staff in the Regent Palace aren't the best in the World either. A lot of them are foreign, and don't get me wrong, they do their job as well as the next person, but their accents are a bit hard to understand, but otherwise, they are a friendly bunch.
The building is situated quite remotely, and can be hard to find if you don't know the area, but being less than 5 minutes from the Picadilly-line tube station, it's not really a bother.
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frankplummer 20.08.2006
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Advantages: central, cheap Disadvantages: noisy, dirty, constant fire alarms,
and i have to agree..it is...one of the worst. It was on britains worst hotels.
i stayed with my boyfriend and a group of friends, it was recommended to me by someone who (hates me ) i think! okok it is absolutely central right in the heart of piccadilly. BUT dont forget the private shower room is absolutely tiny, think airplane toilet! and it makes so much noise!
The staff was fairly helpful, there was one guy who was very very kind and was sympathetic ... ...rooms due to the fact the plumbing didnt work (which never happened) big mixup but others were not so nice who had changed the codes on our key and then asked if we actually stayed in the hotel!
the locks are not very secure, we tried our codes on each others room and we got in...
Anyhow moved rooms 3 times because of the plumbing, didnt receive any upgrade or anything, the fire alarm was constantly on. Teenagers running around knocking on your ...
Muji 25.11.2003
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