great hotel - great location - rooms are not too small and are all newly furnished this is by far the nicest hotel for the money we have stayed at in London would deffo stay again and recommend it highly
nice brekkie lots of choices - very polite staff
great hotel!!

We chose the Bloomsbury Hotel after reading the some good reviews on it. Booked a week stay at deluxe room which we paid higher for the comfort with amenities like bath robes and slippers. Here are our experience with hotel.

The Good:

Hotel is nice being recently refurbished. Friendly service at the restaurant, and concierge; especially Brian, the head concierge, who helped us with the tour & show tickets. Food was pretty good at the restaurant and we visited twice since we were too tired to get out to explore on other restaurants for 2 nites.

Location is okay with Tottenham station around the corner but we did not particularly like the neighborhood near this station.

The Bad:

There are steps to get to the lobby which we did not really like; especially if you were struggling with your big baggages. Of course, we could leave the bags on the street and go into the lobby to request concierge to pick them up but there must be someone watching the baggages while another go get the concierge.

Front desk was ok but lack of smiles. We had a little disappointment during check in with the front desk guy. When we make comments about the room that reserved for us too close to the elevator (we requested a room away from elevator) and wanted to take a look at the room. He abruptly snatched back our reservation form showing an attitude problem. It was bad to have guests forming a first bad impression right at the beginning.

Hotel seems to be a little under staff maybe due to the current economic situation. Concierge is very helpful but sometimes, they are not available because only one was on duty. We were told that there was no housekeeping available until after 9.00 am when we were running out of coffee and sugar in the morning. Operator did not volunteer to help unless you asked.

Two days in a row, false fire alarm went off 4 times in early morning. One time in one day and 3 times in another within 1 hr. We called to check and was told they were trying to fix it. No morning call necessary for that morning. A good insurance not to oversleep.

Room has free internet connection but was not wireless. Refrigerator is locked with beverages and have no space for your own beverages.
Basin was leaking and we need to place a towel underneath it.
Not sure if it was fixed but the towel was placed there till we left.

There are many other hotels in the neighborhood to check out if you want to live in this area. It was ok to stay here if you want a newly refurbished facility.

I booked a Friday night out in London as a treat for me and my girlfriend and choose this hotel to stay over for the night,I read lots of the reviews on here and decided to try it out,I'm so glad I did because we both had a lovely stay after a long day and a night out.The hotel is fantastic both inside and out and the staff were all very polite and helpful with our needs,it's also in a perfect location for all the sights/bars/restaurants around the West End,a couple of minutes walk and your right in the mix! The rooms are superb with large LCD TV's and a nice bathroom too,last but not least I'd like to mention the beds,they are so comfortable! we had a king size bed and both slept really well,I would definitely stay here again.

We stayed at this hotel for 1 night in June 2009. The hotel was wonderful. Good service, vey modern and clean and bright. Our room was smaller than rooms we've had in other hotels, but was stil an OK size. Location wise is excellent for getting to Covent Garden and the theatres. We didn't eat at the hotel as we stayed on a room only babsis so I can't comment on the food, but there is a great little cafe just across the road which did lovely lunches and breakfast.