The hotel was an excellent two star one, with private facilities and tea & coffee boiler.. Perfect to stay in for a holiday.. Really pleasant!! Truly recommended... :-)

my wife and I booked a theatre trip to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. we booked via lastminute.com and appeared to get a really good deal, theatre tickets for Lord of the Rings and a nights accomadation for less that ?100. Unfortunately we had transportation problems and had to find alternative transportation from Leicester to London. On the trip down to London we spent 2 hours trying to get through to the hotel to check what the latest time we could check in. Althought we were supposed to have been able to check in from 14:00 no one answered the phone until 17:00. We had chosen the Edward hotel because of its location and the amenities its claimed to offer. Such as en-suite bathroom, Satelite Tv in Room safe etc. We arrived at the hotel at about 23:30, had to wait for about half an hour whilst the night porter dealt with a group of italian tourists. The problem was, the night porter spoke rather broken english and no Italian. The italians meanwhile could also only speak rather broken English. Eventually we got checked in and headed up to our room. Upon arrival we found our room down a small dingy corridor. The room itself wasn't bad, 2 comfortable beds, which we simply pushed together to make a double bed. Its from this point on we had problems. My wife nipped the bathroom and came running back out, as she'd found what looked like a baby cockroach climbing the walls. I took a quick photo of it with my camera phone and then got rid of it. The amenities that the hotel boasts appear to be destinctly lacking - satelitie TV? you get Sky News and CNN and that's only if someone has remembered to turn the channel on downstairs. The in room safe was superbly secure, i couldn't even find it!!!! So there was no way any burgular was going to. The door didn't have any proper locking device, even the door chain was missing. The hotels only plus point was the free WI-FI available, although all the exposed routers on each floor does pang of a rather DIY approach- but as an IT engineer even i had to admit that it worked. At the end of the day however, if you are looking for a dirt cheap hotel in which to get a bit of kip then you could do worse, i know i have in the past, however if you want my adivce and can stretch to the extra cost then i'd stay in a travel lodge or similar, at the end of the day at least with them you know what you're paying for.

We (me, hubby + daughter 12) stayed here one night in Feb '08. I paid ?76 (through ASDA Travel) which included a full cooked breakfast. The room was very small, one double + one single bed, with a Small gap between the two. A double wardrobe. One shelf/ dressing table which had all the tea and coffee stuff and no where for me to place my makeup etc! The bathroom was ok, - basic. Room was clean and tidy. Basically the room served a purpose for us to use as a base and lay our heads after a night out at the west end. Don't think I could have stayed there long than the one night, due to the lack of comforts being squashed in the room and no luxuries of a hotel break. The staff on reception were polite but not overly friendly or much interaction. The breakfast was ok, I've had better for less money. The dining room was bland, no atmosphere, annoying music!! Location was the best and only reason we booked, close to hyde park and Paddington station, a tube ride to anywhere! Only use this hotel as a B/B, a cheap base to a trip to see the sights of London.

We chose this hotel for the location, and in this respect it did not disapoint. It was a comfortable walk from the hotel to Oxford street and other attractions in that vicinity. Other than that, it was only just worth the money paid. The staff at the front desk were indifferent to guests, and actually seemed quite surprised that an English person would want to stay there. The rooms were small and very shabby. The scratchy blankets looked as though they had been there for decades. The breakfast was okay, but certainly not worth the price charged. Basically, stay here if you want to spend time in central London without breaking the bank, but if you can afford a little bit more than it would be better to treat yourself.

J'ai été très déçue par cet hotel. Nous avons été placés dans une chambre au sous-sol, près de la chaudière. La chaudière a fait du bruit toute la nuit, un sifflement continu qui nous a empéchés de dormir. Résultat: une nuit blanche ! De plus, les toilettes étaient sales. Hotel à fuir !