I'm going to start this review before I even go to bed as I want to remember all the things that are wrong with this place.
It's old, tired and badly in need of renovation (although there does seem to be some movement in that direction, judging from the fact that several areas look like a building site).
The carpets are worn, dusty and wrinkled.
There are wires hanging out of the ceiling.
The lift doesn't stop at the 3rd floor, I have to go one floor above and walk down. Oddly, friends on the 4th floor in the other half of the hotel have the same problem, except they have to get off at the 3rd floor and walk up one.
The room is like a sauna. I have tried turning the control knob on the old-fashioned radiator to both extremes but it seems to make no difference.
I can't even keep the window open because there are no sash cords to hold it up - I've wedged it open with a mug in a desperate bid to get some oxygen into the room. Which means that it's now really noisy and I'll have to wear ear plugs if I have any hope of sleeping. They actually PROVIDE ear plugs, that's how bad it is!
There are no hanging places in the bathroom whatsoever. No towel rail, no loo roll holder, even the towel hook on the back of the door is broken. There isn't even a shelf to put toiletries on apart from the wall-mounted tissue box. There are screw holes for a shaving mirror, but no mirror.
There is also a switched 13A socket for hairdryer in the bathroom, which is illegal under UK wiring regulations (to be fair, it does have an isolating switch outside the bathroom, but it still shouldn't be there).
The bathroom extractor fan does not work.
One of the (twin) sockets at the desk doesn't work.
Oh yes, and there is no WiFi in my room, despite them giving me a code for it. (I don't actually mind that, I sleep better without WiFi.)
If I had paid for this, if be demanding my money back. And if I thought they had another room, I'd ask to change. But it's Saturday night and they're full. Or so they claim. (Also I've taken all my clothes off as it's so damnably HOT!)
Ah well, it's only one night.
PS - Slept really badly. Hope I never return. read more