St Giles Hotel (London)

Last October, I was heading to London for one night only, and needed a hotel room that was centrally located and reasonable priced. A reunion of some old school friends was in the offing, and it needed to be within staggering distance of Chinatown and Central London bars and restaurants: The St Giles Hotel in Bloomsbury fitted the bill perfectly. I found the St Giles Hotel on the website hoteldirect.co.uk, a search engine website for hotel accommodation. I was to be sharing a twin room with a friend, and we were sharing the costs. We managed to get a twin room in October 2008, for £110.00 (£55.00 per person then, ...  Read the complete review

Location Location is probably one of the (only) postives of the hotel its right next to Tottenham Court Road train station and close to lots of attractions. Checking In/ Out Because of the large amount of people staying at the hotel checking in and out can take a while. We were lucky that it took less than 5 minutes , however a lot of tours stay here and if you arrive at the wrong time you may wait 30 mins plus if a party of 50+ people arrive before you. Room Very small for a double room. The bed took up most of my room, then the remaining floor space was taken up by my small suitacase. There is a desk in the room and a hairdryer, ...  Read the complete review

***Why The St Giles?*** Back in September 2007 my wife and I had decided we would like to go to London for the weekend and at the same time take in a show. After further investigation, we also realised that The Terracotta Army was on show at The British Museum and a Tutankhamun exhibition at the 02 Arena so we wanted a hotel that was adjacent to most things on our to do list, close access to Euston as well as having easy access to the tube. We chose the St Giles simply because it appeared on almost every google search we did, had some decent reviews, offered an all in one price for the hotel and a show and was in a fabulous location. ...  Read the complete review