Corus Hotel Hyde Park - London, United Kingdom     

I stayed at this hotel on business recently. Yes, the Corus Hyde Park has a lovely reception area and friendly staff which is nice but isn't the accommodation quite important too? I noticed that the hotel will recently complete upgrading the air conditioning of rooms which I can imagine will ease the high room temperature being that the windows open only a couple of inches. The glamorous reception and friendly staff were overshadowed by the outdated and shabby double room I stayed in. The bedspread was full of holes and the brown with blue tartan carpet looked filthy - something not of this decade! The surface of the bath around the plughole was cracked and stained so no baths taken here! On the plus side, the breakfast was nice, that is, if it is included in the price of the stay. Otherwise it is ?11.50 which I suppose is average for London. I have found unfortunately that this is a not uncommon feature of hotels in central London - they look great from the outside but ultimately they let you down.

An extremely clean post-modern interior at this hotel which is on the edge of Hyde Park in London. We were greeted by a very friendly and helpful receptionist, even though we had just walked from Victoria Station and probably looked a little dishevelled and hot! Our room was small, but adequate, and very clean. As ever we were overlooking the bins and kitchen door below - but that's just our luck! Breakfast the next morning was full English and served in the basement restaurant, with plenty to choose from at a serve yourself bar. The bar was very busy late at night (probably as the local boozer The Mitre shut at 11pm because it is a residential area). The highlight of the stay though was without doubt our trip to see Morrissey at the 02 festival in Hyde Park, which is just a 10 minute walk away. Highly recommended.