I don't advise staying here unless you have a very good sense of humor!!!! .
It was a real life 'fawlty towers' to say the least!.
we booked up last minuet to join a group of friends for a wedding also staying at the royal albion,
on first arrival there was no where to park , we knew they had a deal with the NCP car-park, but to get there and find out where it was we need to book in , so had to leave it on the curb outside while we went in , and with traffic wardens in sight which seemed to be every where !
we got given a map to the car-park , which we needed because it is around 1 mile away , in-fact 0.8 miles to be correct , so I definitely would advise risking your car on the curb outside while you at least get you luggage upstairs , oh and its still going to cost you around £9 per day. AND A WARNING IS NEEDED HERE ... i wouldnt want to be doing that walk frome the car park to the hotel if i was on my own and it was dark , very vunrable as theres a lot of alleys and back roads to either go down or walk past . with drunk revellers on the way !
anyway ..
when we did eventually get back to the hotel after a trek across brighton with our bags we went to our room , best described as a very dated mucky old bedsit. the bedding was a bit sparse , very old .... should have been on display in a museum , or cut up and given to the cleaner so she could have a duster she seemed to be needing one badly by the layer of dust on the bed side lamp shade !! and condsidering the room temperature wasnt exactly warm they could have done with a couple more blankets , but surprisingly the bedding... the sheets at least were fresh crisp and clean , I gathered they use a laundry company at least ! but sheets and towels alone isnt enough for me to declare the room as clean !!!
.... and then the beds pushed together to make up a double , ok its common in hotels or this but these beds were 2 very different beds from each other indeed!
one was a firm hard matress .... the other bed more like a trampoline to put it mildly so there was a lovely gap between the two hidden by the sheet over the beds for any one on the skinny side to get wedged down !.....
any way thats all for the good bits anyway . ho ho ho !!,
the carpet was old and mucky too , there were wires hanging from the very low ceiling as you enter the room hanging out of the air conditioner , hope the wires weren't live incase they get a tall guest !
the walls torn and dingy the paint work splattered and stained and i dont want to know with what in the bathroom! and on the subject of the bathroom had a good wedge of muck in the corners and edges , it was basicly clean , ie no stray hairs or tide marks to see but it hardly sparkled which it easily could have done with a little bit of elbow grease!! and the ceiling had 3 different damp / wet patches one with slow occasional drips from it too.!! brilliant ! and i have more to write about regarding the celings further down this review !

now you may say I just got unlucky with our room but as we had friends also staying there we got to see quite a range of the hotels rooms!!!
it was rather fun to gawp and gasp at each others room horrors !
2 of the rooms our friends were in were basically the same as ours ....but smaller yet with more furniture cramed in , large chairs squashed into the space on one side of the bed , and both rooms led out to what I first thought was scafolding but it was actually a balcony , which i declined on the offer to stand on , just incase !

the luxury ..superiour room !! on the way to this friends room which was down a net work of maze like narrow corridors that were creeky and loud as you walked past other rooms , felt like a ramp or duck boards in places ......
anyway .... I suddenly got dripped on !! I look up and i cant belive it , the ceiling is hanging down full to bursting with water ! no joke it was coming out from different points of the ceiling and all the way down that corridor , so I can only assume the rooms along that corridor were also getting a watering too.
I said to my friend about it to phone the reception about it , but she already had ... and about 30 mins ago!!!!! so they were obviously in no hurry to find the leak so we phoned again to remind them, shortly after it was stopped and turned out to be a jacuzzi above leaking away and with someone in it , so it wasnt as if it was even left unattended to overflow and a accident !, but lucky for them they didnt get to appear through the ceiling with the rest of the water !!

anyway .. if your 80 you may enjoy the organ player for entertainment in the evening down stairs for a perk !! if you dont fall down and re break that hip replacement from the loose carpet on the main stairs or from falling down one of many unmarked and un carpeted 3-4 steps you suddenly find yourself going down along some the dingy corridors !

and anyone who could possibley say that it was value for money or not an old wreck has obviously only ever stayed at the night shelter for accomoation.