Beaver Hotel - London, United Kingdom     

After looking on their website, all looked ok, and we assumed at the price we paid it would meet some minimum standards - BUT oh dear!!! The initial room we were given on the first floor was small, stank and had dirty, tatty bedspreads, on further inspection of the mattresses we found them to be heavily stained with urine. We immediately complained to the man in reception, who apologized profusely and offered us a better room on the ground floor - room number 27. This room was slightly bigger (and I mean slight), but once again, old,shabby furnishings and decor, smelled of smoke, looked unlaundered and lo and behold on inspection of the mattresses we found them to be equally as bad as our first room. Money had already been taken from my account for the first night and we were eager to get on with our short visit to London and get out of the hotel, so it seemed pointless complaining again as this seemed to be one of their 'better' rooms in an old, shabby hotel - so we decided to grin and bear it, with the help of a large amount of alcohol we managed to sleep on top of the beds with the bedspreads removed and to show what a classy joint it was, the bathroom didn't even have a toilet roll holder, the roll was on the floor (no expense spared obviously). For some reason our beds were not made the next day? Laughing about it now, but I would not wish my worse enemy a stay in a hotel like this. Looking forward to the full English breakfast, my mouth dropped open at being presented with one small skinny sausage and one thin slice of bacon - which England did this breakfast come from???

Booked this hotel back in Feb 2008 for a one night stay in May 2008. Got to the hotel and the receptionist had no record of our booking!! But told us that he had managed to find us a double room! we got to the room on the third floor and found it a bit of a mucky hole with stains on the carpet and a fusty smell to the room! They don't go over the top with breakfasts either!! Glad it was for only one night !!