Copthorne Tara Hotel London Kensington - London, United Kingdom 

This is a good hotel in with a great location very near Kensington High Street with shops and restaurants. Also very close to the tube station. Judging by the cars parked in the neighborhood (Lamborghini, Audi R8, Aston Martin to name a few) it's located in a pretty upscale residential area. The room was in good, clean condition and pretty nice. A great bonus is that they've replaced their minibars with regular small fridges. We bought breakfast food in the Marks & Spencer food hall which is next to the tube station and stored it in there. There is also a waterboiler and tea so we were set to eat a good cheap breakfast in the room every morning. There are two restaurants and one cafe on the premises but we didn't visit any of them so I can't comment on them. The downside of it being so close to the tube is that trains run overground right next to the hotel so they make some noise. We're not light sleepers though so we were not bothered by it at all. The only really negative thing is that there is a paper thin door joining your room to one of the neighboring rooms (locked of course). There was even a 1 cm gap under it so we could see if the neighbors had the lights on or not. A couple of days before we were due to leave an american couple checked in to that room after we had gone to bed and they were somewhat loud and we could hear them as if they were in our room. The time difference for them kept them and us up till 1AM that night. I think they didn't realize that they were disturbing us until they could hear us the next day because the next day they we're much quiter. All in all, it's a pretty good hotel and I would recommend staying there.