I would advise this hotel to all those who wish to stay in central london not pretending spacious accomodation.
Friendly 24 hours reception, wi-fi and wide breakfast room.

The worst shower / bathroom I have ever seen, and the staff was nothing else but rude!

I needed to stay 1 night in London for an audition I had the following morning. I booked this hotel about a week in advance via activehotels.com

When I got off the tube at gloucester road I began to make my way towards the hotel, passing many other hotels on the way that all looked great. I really thought I'd done well, as I'd only paid £27 for a singe en-suite room.

When I got outside the hotel I began to think "oh my god". The actuall sign for the hotel appears to be rotting. When I went into the reception, I was immediately hit by the smell of vomit. Also the the building seemed to be in a very bad state of repair, wall paper peeling off, filthy carpet etc. I then had to pay the £27 again! I was staying on the 5th floor, the lift (which looked like it was going to break at anyminute) took me to the 4th floor. The lift was also very disgusting, black floor (black as in dirt) and walls. When I got out of the list the corridors were also horrible, great chunks of walls and doors missing. Everything very dirty etc. I then opened the door to the stairs, where I found a very rough looking woman lying down across the stairs smoking a cigarette!

When I got to my room I was appalled. It stank of vomit and smoke. The carpets were dirty (very dirty), all the walls were very dirty and the curtains were just horrible. Outside my window was the roof, looking out of the window I could see a syringe. Nice! My bedding had what appeared to be a large blood stain on it. Only 1 pillow.

The bathroom floor tyles were all chipped and cracked. In the morning I discovered that my basin didn't even work and my shower only had a little trickle, I had to wait about 20mins just for some warm trickle!

I didn't sleep well, the walls were so thin I could hear next doors occupant snoring as if he/she/it was in my room.

Lots of very strange people staying in the hotel, the types you wouldn't like to meet in a dark corner alone! Most seemed like they were from a lunatic assylum, probably what staying more than 1 night in that place does to you.

I couldn't bring myself to go for the breakfast, probably managed to spare myself ecoli or salmanela. (apologies for the poor spelling!) I got out as quickly as I could the that morning. My skin is still crawling from the memory of that vile place.

This is definately not a hotel, it is a very very very dodgy hostel full of very dodgy people. This place should be knocked down.

Please don't stay here! I can't bear to think of anyone staying here. Don't make the terrible mistake I did!

It was the worst hotel Ive ever stayed at! It doesnt even deserve the title hotel, its a BAD hostel! 10 rooms at each floor, with ONE shower and ONE toilets to share for us all!!! Everything was dirty, the toilet, shower, walls, floor... It was old and poor. We had ordered a tripleroom, but we had to switch rooms 3 times before they got us the right one. The breakfast was a joke. One plate of Corn Flakes, warm milk, a cup of coffee and a slice of toast?? Thats supposed to be the breakfast of a 2* hotel??? I wouldnt go back here even if I got paid good money for it, no way. The location was good, but by far not good enough to stand the crappy standard of this "hotel". The staff spoke very poor english and seemed not interested in the gusts at all.
So - DONT STAY HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!