Posted on 01/25/2013 2:01:30 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
LONDON (Reuters) - Visitors to London have marked its hotels as the worst in a list of 100 cities due to overpriced minibars, lousy breakfasts and slow service, according to a survey released on Friday.
A study by travel metasearch website Trivago of hotel reviews from more than 140 accommodation booking sites found London came last in a list of 100 cities that had at least 135 hotels and 60 reviews. It did not include TripAdvisor postings.
The German city of Dresden came top with its hotels receiving the highest ratings and most positive reviews from guests.
"Users praised Dresden hotels for their value for money, whilst London hotels were criticised for their prices," said a spokeswoman for Trivago.
"In particular, reviewers felt the minibars were overpriced and breakfast service was both overpriced and disappointing, whilst hotels in Dresden were praised for their delicious and well-valued breakfasts."
She said London hotels were also criticised for overcrowding at breakfast, long queues at check-in, inability to cope with large groups of people, small rooms and poor views.
On the other hand, hotels in Dresden were praised for their exceptional service, efficiency, helpful staff, as well as their spacious rooms with excellent views.
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There’s a place in Touquey that has a Continental Chef. However the owner is a lunatic and the Bell Boy is from Barcelona.
is Seoul on the list? I’ve always wanted to go there, I hear it ROKs...
Very funny show!
I’ve never had any trouble with hotels in London. They’ve all been great. Well, maybe not the one I stayed in as a student in the late 70s. A cheap dump in Earl’s Court. But if you stay in a cheap dump in Earl’s Court, you get what you deserve.
I’ve never had any trouble with hotels in London. They’ve all been great. Well, maybe not the one I stayed in as a student in the late 70s. A cheap dump in Earl’s Court. But if you stay in a cheap dump in Earl’s Court, you get what you deserve.
Hanoi is listed as having the second-best hotels of any city in the world. Really?
My wife and I stayed five days at a Best Western on Belgravia Steet seven years ago. It was actually a refurbished flat or house and looked like one from the outside. Pretty decent but no air-conditioning. Since the temps at the time were in the 80s, it was pretty hot at night. Still a fairly nice experience.
It was everything I'd hoped we'd find in a hotel in London: The building dated back to 1710, I recall, and the floors in the room sloped inwards toward the hallway and creaked when you walked on them. The walls were held together by retrofitted high-tension cables, the hallways were narrow and like a maze, the wood furnishings inside the hotel were older than most American states, and the whole place smelled like a wonderful old library. It felt more like the cabin of a sailing ship than a hotel room. Looking out into the street below from the tiny windows, the gates down below were wrought black iron with gilded tops (very English) and on top of the hotel roof I could see vents and piping sticking up that were cast iron and probably coated in 150 years worth of tar layers. There was street noise below during the day, but it was English city noise which was charming. The hotel sounds like a disaster, but it was entirely comfortable and very inviting. The fog rolled in and the whole street below looked like a scene out of a Dickens novel. I opened the window and outdoors smelled like fresh rain. If they'd have played an endless loop soundtrack of clip-clopping horses outside, it would have been the perfect experience.
I thought it was just outstanding and wanted to stay another week. The complimentary breakfast downstairs was utterly superb and totally English -- baked beans, roast tomato slice, bangers, fried eggs, toast, amazing butter and jam, excellent tea and a lousy excuse for coffee which was so bad that it was actually good. The hotel staff were like the servants from 'Downton Abbey', only some of them being Polish and Punjabi, of course.
If you go to London, stay in a place like this one. You can go spend the week in any modern glass and stainless steel hotel with granite countertops in the bathroom if you want, but only history can provide a hotel room like the one I stayed in London. When we go back to London, I'd bet we'll end up staying there again.
I stayed in the Douglas House in London in 1963. It was an enlisted man’s hotel. It was well-located and for us, cheap. Couldn’t complain. We went back a few years later. I had married by then and we spent a couple of long weekends at a decent hotel near Marble Arch. Been many years since I’ve been to London. Last time I passed through Heathrow, I was SHOCKED to see Budweiser on sale at the airport bar.
Thanks for this review. It sounds utterly charming, and I’ve put this on my list of hotels in London. Once we make it over the pond, of course.
I never travel to Great Britain in summer so I’m lucky that I don’t need air conditioning. Two years ago, we rented a flat for two weeks in Chelsea. Everything was great except for the tiny clothes dryer. But then most people in England like to hang their clothes to dry.
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