Carlo Bottiglieri Review of The Whitechapel Hotel
General lack of skill and knowledge among the staf...
General lack of skill and knowledge among the staff, with few exceptions. Had booked with breakfast included, at 7 the morning I ask where I can get it and I'm told that breakfast opens at 7:30, so I get back to my room and wait. At 7:30 I'm back at the reception desk. In the meanwhile a different person is holding the desk and she tells me that breakfast is not available today because of renovations (yesterday the restaurant was working normally though). I mention I was told to wait half an hour before. No excuses for the meaningless wait, nor for having sold me something they could not deliver, nothing, the receptionist just repeats : today there's no breakfast.
Also, the mini-bar sits 40cm away from the bed-head in the "single premium room" and it's noisy, in a very inconstant way, so your ear does not get used to it. Rooms are well appointed.

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