myhotel Bloomsbury - London, United Kingdom     

OK, hotel rooms in London nowadays are in general miniscule. One has to be ready for this when preparing for a trip. I've been to London three times this last year, stayed at 3 different hotels and what they all had in common was rooms so small, you couldn't keep your suitcase open and walk around at the same time. Mind that this applies to what would be called "regular" rooms. The "deluxe" rooms are a different story. My single room at myhotel Bloomsbury was not bigger than the average standard rate room in London. On the positive side, the hotel was very centrally located, there was some care taken in the way the hotel looked (no walls were peeling and no worn furniture), there were a couple of nice spaces in the basement for the use of the guests and the sound system in the room was a nice touch. I shouldn't forget the complimentary WiFi internet. Also, I imagine the water boiler and the little tin box with complimentary sachets of instant coffee, tea and chocolate would be appreciated by some people who are nicer than me. The bar at the ground floor is also very nice. All of this would be very nice, if there wasn't construction work going on in the back of the hotel. Every day except Sunday, it would be impossible to sleep between 8am and 5-6pm (not exactly sure when they stopped work... wasn't in the room then), over the noise of the drills and the shouts between the construction workers. I would have enjoyed the water boiler, if I also had a mini-fridge where I could keep some milk to go with my instant coffee. No mini-fridge there. Of course, how could a mini-fridge fit in the room, when there wasn’t even any room for a closet! The clothes that needed hanging, had to be hang on hangers on racks that were jutting out of the wall. Keep in mind that the room was so small that the suitcase could not be kept open. And no closet also meant no safe, so I wasn’t feeling very safe when I had to choose between carrying my passport around town or abandoning it in the hotel. Also, the towels must have been washed with some environmentally friendly detergent that left a funny smell… They didn’t smell dirty, just a bit like they had been dry-cleaned which wasn’t a very nice feeling when you had to rub your face into them. Breakfast was just plain OK. I’ve had much better breakfasts in the other 2 hotels I stayed this year. What was incredible was the disappearing staff on Saturday and Sunday morning… Nobody to bring you coffee for a while! Somebody has to start regulating London hotels… It is just ridiculous what they think they can get away with!