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Griffin House Hotel: Traveller Reviews

2.0 of 5
10 Connaught Street, Marble Arch, London W2 2AH, England
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Ranked #915 of 1,067 hotels in London
2.0 of 5 stars 96 Reviews
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ali107
Rochester, New York
1 review
“Absolutely Horrendous”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 4 August 2010

My husband and I stayed here for 5 nights in 3 different rooms. Beware, the web site is misleading. The rooms have decent bedding and drapes which look good in photos, but the place is a disaster. The matresses are old and lumpy with springs poking out. The bed slats on one bed were broken. We asked several times to have broken TV fixed and nothing was done.The shower stall drain was blocked in one room which smelled of mold. One room was on the top floor (4th) up a steep narrow staircase and there was no fire escape. The web site states tea and coffee available but they mean only at breakfast in the basement dining room.

  • Stayed July 2010, travelled as a couple
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 1 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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robagsgrady
CRAWLEY
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3 reviews
2 helpful votes
“Excellent Value for location. Clean & Comfy with Sky & Breakfast. Perfect.”
3 of 5 stars Reviewed 6 July 2010

I cant understand what everyones on about in the earlier reviews! Maybe the hotel owners have had a spruce up since.
I was nervous because of the reviews but it was the best I could get in that area at a budget price. I had no reason to worry!
Alright its a small double room with small bathroom but perfectly adequate and very clean with new modern sheets and sky and a fan for a weekend trip. I wanted near hyde park with our own bathroom (many hotels were charginh more for a shared bathroom!) and I got it for a reasonable price (£170 for two nights with breakfast)

The breakfast room is tiny and breakfast isnt big and a bit limited for my appetite but absolutely perfect scambled eggs - not microwaved!

Also this is a VERY safe and secure place as Tony Blair lives literally across the road and has 24 hour armed guards!

All in all a very pleasant stay. Would definately recommend this place if only for the short walk to Hyde Park.

  • Stayed July 2010, travelled as a couple
    • 5 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 4 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 4 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 5 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 5 of 5 stars Service
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Belinda56
Tucson, Arizona
1 review
“Smallest room on the planet”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 21 June 2010

I may have stayed in a worse hotel, but I sincerly can't remember when. The room was very, very small (which wouldn't have been so bad) had the plaster not been peeling off the walls, the television so small and so high up you couldn't see it, and the bed being so old that you could feel every spring poking you in the back. Oh, and the shower flooding the bathroom when you took a shower, which was smaller than a phone booth. Had we been staying longer we would have moved to a different hotel. Thank goodness we were only there 2 nights and except for sleeping (which we got little of) we never were in the room. Terrific location though, I just wish they would invest in a little paint and some fixing up.

  • Stayed June 2010, travelled as a couple
    • 3 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 1 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 3 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 2 of 5 stars Service
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dovsky
Tel Aviv, Israel
1 review
“Flophouse”
2 of 5 stars Reviewed 27 May 2010

PLUS:
Friendly personnel. Very good location: all main tourist attractions are in walking distance, there are a lot of different shops, department stores, groceries, arab greengroceries and greasy moneychangers, oodles of shawarma and narghile bars, facias in arabic and pharsi language.
The place is relatively secure: 2-3 policemen keep vigil 24h/7d right in front of the hotel.

MINUS:
The rooms are repulsively tiny, no table, no chair, no stool, there is no place even to put a single suitcase (we took two rooms: "Deluxe Double", #12, and "Standard Double", #9, - the difference was only in lopsided commode with clutched cases in "luxury" room). There is not enough space in toilet/shower to wipe yourself, even to place soap and shampoo. THERE IS NO COFFEE/TEE MAKER in the room, despite the hotel's advertisements. The TV has only free channels: basic news and vulgar sexual advertisements. The breakfast is ridiculously small: 1 tea or coffee, 1 toast+jam, 1 egg or flakes. It is very strange that such flophouse is declared as three-star hotel (e.g., EasyToBook.com where I booked it), I think that even one star is too much for it.

  • Stayed May 2010, travelled with friends
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 2 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 3 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 2 of 5 stars Service
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Robbo1968
Kingston
1 review
“Bed & fast break”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed 10 May 2010

Having booked one night B & B, we arrived at this "hotel" for a little R & R.
We checked into room 9 & were amazed to find a room that had a bed the size of the room. There was a little space between the bed & the bathroom but that was it. I had to climb over my wife to get to the bathroom because walking around the bed was impossible.
Having survived our night, we looked forward to breakfast, it could be as bad as the room could it? Yes it could!!
We looked at the breakfast menu.
Option 1. One egg & toast with no taste was breakfast. We asked whether we could get any bacon etc. but to no avail. The girl just repeatedly asked "How eggs?" (No, that isnt my mistake, it's how she asked)
Option 2 was cereal

  • Stayed May 2010, travelled as a couple
    • 2 of 5 stars Value
    • 3 of 5 stars Location
    • 2 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 2 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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