Bad smells in rooms when we arrived. Furniture & fittings very basic. Bathroom in urgent need of an update, not nice to use. The whole place could do with an 'extreme makeover'. Not recommended when there are plenty of other nicer apartment hotels in the area. Only positive was the breakfast wasn't too bad, but you paid 30dirhams whether you had tea and toast or the whole buffet.

I suspect all of the earlier reviews are actually about London Crown 2! This is the one very close to the Bur Juman Shopping Centre, just along the road from “Bank Street”. It doesn't say outside that it is London Crown 2, but it is! London Crown 1 is actually further away from the Bur Juman Centre, still walkable, but a block or so behind the Ramada Hotel. Of the two, London Crown 1 is by far the superior. I know this because a mix up in booking in March forced me to move from LC2 to LC1, which is more expensive but it is well worth the extra money. London Crown 1 is located on a much quieter street, a ten minute walk from the shopping mall. The apartments are much bigger, much better maintained and much more luxurious. The kitchens are better equipped, but still with utensils missing. (Get used to it! This is such a common problem in Dubai's serviced apartments) There is a pool and nice little cafe for meals. . London Crown 2 does indeed have rather grotty studios with bad TV reception, appalling bathrooms and very poorly equipped kitchens. The big plus being it is only a two minute stroll from the Bur Juman Centre. Forget London Crown 2, go for London Crown 1 and put up with the extra walk to the shops

the london crown was a pretty grotty establishment. okay it calls itself 3 star, i can live with a tv with bad reception and standard fittings, but it should be clean - which it wasnt. bathroom was VERY dirty, mould throughout. gaping holes in false ceiling where you could see wiring. paper thin doors and walls, we could hear the elevator dinging on all floors from the end of the corridor from our room with the door closed NOT recommended for the price they charge.

The London Crown 1 is spacious and is in a very convinient location in Bur Dubai. The hotel provides free airport transfers which are appreciated. The negative side to the hotel though, is that the rooms are not adequately cleaned especially the bathroom and kitchen area, quite disgraceful.(Carry your own towels, the bed linen is changed daily and appears to be clean). Some staff members seem to have a racial prejudice that may make one very uncomfortable.

April 2005. The standard of accommodation is very low and certainly not up to normal tourist standards. The bathrooms and kitchens in particular are very shabby, rundown, dirty, poorly equipped. In addition, there is no pool in the hotel apartment block, only in the long term rented apartments which they do not let to tourists, even though the pool is advertised. The photos on websites advertising the apartments bear little relation to reality. The Reception admitted that they had given us a "bad room", but maintained there were some good rooms. Unfortunately they were unable to show or give us one.