Kings Hotel - London, United Kingdom 

"very good for the price and a great location"
Posted: Mon, Nov 23 2009
My wife and myself spent a week in this budget hotel in november. The staf were very helpful and very accommodating. We requested a room on the first floor when we booked and were given a room on the 4th floor. After the first night we were given our choice of 2 rooms on the first floor for the remainder of our stay. the rooms were small to american standards but adequate. The rooms were clean and no bugs. Bath was small and shower smaller but we had plenty of hot water in the mornings( but not at night). tv reception was auful but we were able to see a few channels. The breakfast was simple with orange juice, coffee and tea. Ceral, toast and bread along with butter and jely was ample. the breakfast staff was always right there with anything we needed. The hotel was worn but clean and was very well located to bus and tube. we never waited longer than 5 minutes for a bus or train.

The Kings Hotel was fine!
Posted: Thu, Sep 06 2007
We booked our stay at the Kings Hotel because of the price and location then we read all of the terrible reviews, so we didn't have very high expectations. Our experience was satisfactory. The room was tiny, but clean enough. The breakfast was good and the staff was particularly helpful and nice. My husband found a nearby hotel that cost as much for one night as we paid for four at the Kings Hotel. Sooooooooooooo, if you just want a place to sleep in an excellent location near Hyde park and two underground lines, the Kings will be fine.

Would not recommend!
Posted: Sun, Sep 02 2007
I checked in here with my sister for an overnight stay. I had taken my sister to London as a 21st Birthday present and wanted things to be nice. We arrived and after having booked a twin room back in January we were told that all the twin rooms were gone and only a double was available - we weren't impressed but were told there was nothing that could be done as all the twin rooms were taken. We shrugged our shoulders and decided to go with it for the night. We went up to our room, which was up about 5 flights of stairs - how anyone with large suitcases manages i can't imagine (we were very glad to only have backpacks!) We then discovered that after paying for an en suit our bathroom was down the hallway! Back downstairs we went for some more complaining - again to be told that there was nothing that could be done. It turns out that the room we were in was too small to fit a bathroom in so a private bathroom for our room was built seporately down the hall - not so good if you need the toilet in the middle of the night! Again after our best attempt at complaining and the offer of the only other room available (which was a single!) we again decided to go with it for the night. Back up in the room we discovered there was not only no lock on the bedroom window but that the paint was peeling away around the sides and there was a huge crack down through the glass. Our kettle was broken, the lid would not stay down which left boiling it slightly dangerous. When we tried to put the provided fan on at night we discovered just how dodgy the plug sockets were - the fan kept loosing it's power and had to be resolved by moving the plug in the socket - needless to say we were a bit worried. Our private bathroom down the hall smelt of drains, had cracked tiles and no plug in the sink, and my sister had a dodgy looking brown stain on her provided towel. After washing may hair in the morning I used the provided hairdryer to discover that the bare wires were coming out of the socket and the hairdryer itself had a crack in it - i had no choice but to use it though (very quickly may i add!) The breakfast room was very small but breakfast did consist of cereal which you could help yourself too along with tea, coffee and orange juice and brought to your table was a plate containing two slices of toast and one croissant each - which wasn't bad compared to some of the terrible breakfasts i've had in London hotels in the past. Unfortunately as this was my only experience of the hotel I can't comment on what other rooms etc may have been like, though as we were leaving another person was complaining about customer service to the manager. I would say if you were to stay there avoid room 50 at all costs! I have my letter of complaint on the way to them!