Oliver Plaza Hotel - London, United Kingdom     

I thought this hotel was excellent value for money. My daughter thought our tiny room was verging on daughter abuse. But she agreed that it was clean and quiet. Good points: very convenient to Earl's Court tube station, good restaurants in the area, a grocery on the way to the tube station, quiet street, quite good Continental breakfast, clean and safe (all incomers must show a room key, and no guests allowed past the reception area) and very friendly staff. Bad points: the hotel is a bit shabby in the public areas (duct tape on the stairs, paint not quite fresh) and the cramped rooms. Oh, and the web page says that there's internet access in the public areas. I was able to get a signal, but I wasn't able to get online. This hotel seems to be quite popular with US universities who have short-term courses in London, as the majority of the guests while we were there were from two US universities.