Holwell Holidays from AU$2,787

The room was clean. It would be nice to have some towel hooks and small shelves in the bathroom. The bed was very hard. Just so you know. We had dinner in the restaurant in the Inn. It was very very good. Slow, but worth the wait. Since our room was located directly above the bar, and it was trivia night, so it was noisy until the games were over, which was around 9 pm. It’s no frills. The room was small, not much room to walk around with our suite cases open. For a short overnight, and we had to get to the LHR airport early in the morning, it’s worth the stay. Would’ve loved to try their breakfast, which was included, but had to catch an early flight.

I spent 26 days here. It was good value and very convenient location. The staff were nice. Unfortunately, I had my backpack with my work laptop stolen from the breakfast space. I was away from the table for less than 4 minutes. cctv shows the man walking in the lobby, walking through the restaurant, picking up my bag and walking out. while I was there someone else had their mobile phone taken out of their hand while standing in front of the hotel. This unfortunately is common in London. I was not happy with the security (and told the front desk). Anyone can get to a guest floor. You don’t need your room key to get into the ground floor stairwell or through the doors on guest floors. And there is no security downstairs.while the front desk is immediately in front of the doors, many times they are not watching and often I walked in without anyone seeing me. Housekeeping wasn’t the greatest. As this had a kitchen they provide you with a kitchen towel (same as a bath and hand towel for the bathroom). When the kitchen towel needed replacing I put it on the floor, they put it back on the counter. The next time I put it with more towels. They took it and didn’t replace. I also came home to the rubbish bin perched on my line of shoes which I had along the wall. I use my own silk pillowcase to sleep on, every time they made the bed (I didn’t choose housekeeping every day) they put that pillowcase (the obvious one I use) behind. All this to say it was convenient.