Strand Palace Hotel London

When Lee Mead won BBC's 'Any Dream Will Do' my mum was ecstatic. She had probably spent half her wages voting for him, so tickets to see him play Joseph were an obvious choice for her birthday in November last year. Thinking it was a brilliant idea, she then invited my nan and aunt, and just for good measure, I decided to drag my husband along as I'd never experienced a show in Londons famous theatre land. We soon realised it was a fair way to travel and we had might as well make the most of our adventure and booked a show and stay theatre trip. After reading up on the choice of hotels, we opted for the 3 star Strand Palace as it a) looked pretty swanky from the ...  Read the complete review

I booked a double room at the Strand Palace back in July 05 for NYE 2006. I did this to ensure there would be no availability problems. This was not to be the case. After arriving after a long journey we looked forward to checking in and relaxing. There was a big queue, understandable seeing as it was NY and obviously very busy. When we got our turn to check in the lady dealing with us was rude and abrupt. We were then told in due course there has been a mix up with the bookings and they did not have a double room for us. Instead we were told we had two singles. Not acceptable seeing as I had paid £160 for a double room for my partner and I. When I showed ...  Read the complete review

This review is about my Christmas party experience at the Strand Palace Hotel. This year, I was in charge of organising our office Christmas party, and, being based in South East London, the department tends to head to Bromley or Greenwich for a meal. But this year we decided to go all out, and go 'up west', and so I came across the Strand Palace hotel on my googlequest and we decided to go posh as well. The booking process was slightly tiresome, seeing as the particular member of staff we made our booking through was somewhat challenged in the brains department. The initial booking process was easy. We booked ourselves in for the three-course ...  Read the complete review