4 years ago
Arrived early, but was given a room straight away,...
Arrived early, but was given a room straight away, unfortunately the view from the window was completely obscured by scaffolding, signage, ladders and overlooked the building site. We complained about this and was quickly given an upgraded room.At this price and in the knowledge that we were staying in a five star hotel we just felt the little things were not on point. We found dust and dirt in the room. It was a badly lit room. Even though we had the air con on low during the night the room was heating up due to us being on the third floor with no window to open. The mat in the room was tatty and the art work on the wall, we just didn't get it. We didn't have the usual TV channels, one of the hotel staff swore twice when speaking to us in the elevator. Half way through the stay my door card stopped working, although we enjoyed breakfast we felt it was overpriced and the selection of pastries and fresh fruit was extremely limited. On the last night of our stay we entered the hotel entrance, and were making our way towards the bar when we were accosted by a member of staff who seemed to think we were just a couple of strangers walking around lost, we found his attitude abrupt and very rude. Although they seemed to have a well stocked bar they didn't have the drink we asked for from the menu. Neither of us could get on with the pillows and resorted to using folded up towels underneath to get comfortable. I like to have a coffee in a morning, but there was only a noisy horrible espresso coffee machine in the room which was extremely noisy and hard to understand, meaning I could not have my morning coffee, something so simple but unexpected of a five star hotel. We both felt that we could of saved some money by booking into the premier inn, located not far away. It would of been perfectly adequate, with breakfast included in the price. To end on a positive the lady that checked us in and out was friendly and helpful, upon checking in and departure and with the upgrading of the room.