2/10 Terrible
Martin
Travelled with family
14 Aug 2024
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Not Cheap not cheerful
Visited as a small family just a couple and a 5 year old. Had to wait for half an hour after check in till the room was ready. Thought the toilets in the lobby were a bad omen when my eyes were stinging as I walked into the gents, probably last cleaned when it was built. Booked a family room but not sure an actual family would fit.
A random desk was at the bottom of the bed with a kettle but no plug socket within 4 metres. The fold out bed was something from a Victorian prison and did a great impression of Arkwright’s till. Just the sort of lethal metal death trap you want a 5 year old to use.
Luckily the bathroom had clean towels which helped distract from the lack of any extraction in there, unless I mistakenly ticked the Turkish baths option?
The shower tray was a level of slipperiness that Torvill and Dean would find challenging and Teflon would probably want to patent. After the second time my kid had fallen over we started using towels inside the cubicle.
The room cooling fan had the power of an asthmatic 70 year old smoker, and the tele must have been specially created to infuriate the customer, as with over 30 years IT experience I struggled to get the thing to work, given it was hanging off the wall previous occupants must have had similar issues.
In summary, easy access to Aldgate East station, but only stay if you’re a family of Olympic level ice skating borrowers, who always carry a 5m extension cable, hate television and like being excessively warm.
Martin
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2024