Great value central hotel (The Kingsley Thistle)

Member Name: londongirl

Product:	The Kingsley Thistle
Date:	10/10/09 (17 review reads)
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Advantages: 5 minutes from Holborn tube and covent garden, reasonable price for london, newly refurbished

Disadvantages: no breakfast included

This hotel used to be called Thistle Bloomsbury but changed it's name to The Kingsley, ultimately though it is still owned by Thistle hotels.

My boyfriend and I were looking for a cheapish but nice hotel to stay in London one night - i actually live on the outskirts of london but since we had two days of things to do planned in london it made sense to try and stay in a hotel. After a lot of searching we found The Kingsley for £74 for the room for one saturday night - no breakfast just room only. THe hotel is located about 5 or 10 minutes walk from Covent Garden and 5 minutes walk from Holborn tube station.

I was nervous about the hotel as the reviews on tripadvisor had been mixed but mainly negative! It appeared that if you were lucky to stay in a refurbished room it was great but some of the rooms were from the 1970's in decor! However when we stayed in August I believe all the rooms had been refurbished. Our room was down a smallish corridor and the place is a bit claustrophobic but the room itself was very nice for the price - great decor , very modern,everything spotlessly clean. Lovely bathroom - again smallish but perfectly fine! Looked like it had been refurbished very recently.
Bed was comfortable, and there was a large dressing table with mirror , tea and coffee and biscuites supplied, a small table and chairs and it had air conditioning. THe room was quite hot without the air con - and the air con slightly noisy however once it had cooled the room down it was fine to leave the air con off and it didn't get too hot overnight - this was on a very hot weekend in August.

They tested the fire alarm on the sunday morning about 9am which wans't great plus we didn't know that it was a test and everyone was popping their heads out of the door in their night clothes unsure of what to do - but the hotel information book stated that the alarms would be tested - i can think of better times to pick than a sunday morning!!

That was the only complaint. The staff were fine - friendly enough and there was a left luggage storage which we used both on the saturday and sunday.

For the price - which was acutally cheaper than the Travelodge over the road i would definitely recommend this hotel.

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