Pay attention to the room size when you book. The rooms are very small, and that's probably not for most people. Usually it wouldn't be for me, but my view out the window of the clock tower of St. Pancras attempted to convince me otherwise each morning.
I was in a third-floor walkup, and after hotel-hopping all week in London, Leicester, and Leeds, knowing I would carry the bags up on Thursday and be able to leave them there until Sunday made me feel better about it. I was prepared for the tiny size of the room, and I do think that the layout was fairly good at maximizing the little space. The room wasn't dirty, but it didn't feel sparklingly clean, either. There was a bleached-out former stain on the hotel bed, for example. The en suite bath was tiny but OK. The shower head was kind of yucky. Don't look up at a budget hotel's shower head; odds are you'll regret it.
Yelp user Vee P. described the key situation to a T. Like a lot of older European hotels, they have you turn in your key. But when I'd return to my room, sometimes upwards of thirteen or fourteen hours later, it was always someone I'd never seen before at the desk, and they gave me my key by just my room number. I'm hyper-sensitive about hotel security since I travel alone quite a bit, so this didn't sit well with me... but I was also too tired each night to give them a hard time about it.
For the price, you probably can't do better in central London. I probably wouldn't do it again, but I'm getting older and find myself enjoying nicer hotel rooms than bare-bones options these days. read more