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Radnor Bayswater Hotel: Traveler Reviews

23 Inverness Terrace | Bayswater, London W2 3JR, England (Bayswater / Notting Hill / Lancaster Gate )
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Radnor Bayswater Hotel
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Perth, Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote 1 helpful vote
“Ron Weasley's house; The Burrow”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed August 27, 2012

On the 3rd August, after a long 12.5 hour flight and a long train ride, my friend and I arrived at the 'hotel'.

We were "greeted" at the door by a man smoking on the steps to the door, offering no assistance to help with bags. We thought he was someone staying at the hotel but was in fact the person working at reception. We had to carry our heavy luggage up four winding, incredibly narrow flights of stairs without any assistance. Here we discovered that the showers were not working properly - a weak cold trickle.

After informing him the showers weren't operating, we were transferred to a room with one bed. This room was on the 3rd floor so we had to repack our luggage and again carry them ourselves with no help even offered. However, this room was even worse, not only were the showers still not working, but the windows could not be closed because they were broken. The man's attempt to correct this was to stick a wooden leg under it as a prop so that it partially closed.

Again, we said that this was not acceptable and it was worse than the first room. We asked to be moved to the ground floor so that we did not have to climb all the stairs with our luggage when we checked out (and whenever we accessed the hotel). The man went to "check room availabilities" but did not return after 20 mins so we had to go find him. He was just talking on the phone and when he saw us he just shrugged and said "no more rooms".

After some debate he 'found' a room on the ground floor. Again, this room has one bed, broken window that doesn't open, tilting cupboard, a broken bathroom door (it does not close properly because the bathroom floor is heaving upwards), broken toilet seat, no shower door or curtain, and the shower head had broken off the wall fixture. We were honestly too tired at this point to say anything else. We had to ask for assistance carrying our luggage down because we were so exhausted, and he managed to snap the handle on my luggage while doing so.

We could not believe the state of this hotel, the rooms and the staff, and honestly don't believe how it can be inhabited by people. We stayed there for 3 horrible nights and it was the worst start to our holiday.

Room Tip: avoid at all costs!!!!!!!
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  • Stayed August 2012, traveled with friends
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 3 of 5 stars Location
    • 1 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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Esperance, Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes 2 helpful votes
“An experience to be missed”
2 of 5 stars Reviewed August 11, 2012

WELL. This place was an experience and a half. We stayed in April of this year. My parents had a basement room that had a glued shut window and a bathroom with half a wall missing. We had a quad room on the fourth floor. (No lifts so be prepared to do some lugging, huffing and puffing) We all had a good laugh and decided to make the best of a bad situation as the only other option was to let it ruin our London experience. My hubby rewired the TV. We put our drinks out on the window sill to keep cold, (no fridge or tea coffee facility in rooms) and purchased an air Freshener for the bathroom.

We did get clean towells everyday and the housekeeping girl was nice enough although management was totally unhelpful. The shower being on the fourth floor was a pittifull luke warm dribble. At the end of the day the room provided a bed to sleep in and it was quiet.

Breakfast was cereal, toast and I suspect re-boiled eggs. You can get salt but not pepper and a knife but not a fork. We popped down to sainsburrys and grabed some extras like fruit ham and cheese to add to our breaky spread and made the neighbouring tables jealous.

We were a little alarmed at the fire emergency plan which was printed straight off the internet and put up without being filled in. We drew comfort from the fact the place has not burned down yet.

In summary it can only be called a holliday experience and we needed to make the best of it. If you need to stay here (I say need as no one would want to) You will just have to keep your blinkers on and keep thinking happy thoughts.

  • Stayed April 2012, traveled with family
    • 2 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 1 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 2 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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“Avoid this hotel.”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed July 12, 2012 via mobile

To call the Radnor seedy is to pay it a massive and undeserved compliment. The building's interior is in shambles. Evidence of roof leaks were in every area we entered. Walls even had stains and damaged areas.

Our room was filled with a bed with a single thin Ikea blanket, flimsy sheets, and two wafer thin pillows. Other furniture consisted of a pair of standard dining room table-style chairs. The bathroom was cramped. My knees were up against the wall while seated on the toilet. I'm 5'10. The towel rack was broken, hilariously mcguyvered to the wall with scotch tape.

The outer door to our room (perplexingly, there was an unlockable inner door,) was cheap as cheap can be. The lock was worse. The whole thing looked like a botched amateur's first attempt at a home repair. It felt exceedingly insecure.

Breakfast was strange: hard boiled eggs, corn flakes, and some other odds and ends. We never partook.

There is no distinct lobby, only an adapted dining room where a single employee always was, sitting at a folding table with a laptop. Service rendered was polite but had an air of subtle confusion whenever we interacted with anybody. The morning we checked out we awoke an employee who was curled up in a sleeping bag on the floor of the dining room/lobby.

As a whole, our stay in the Radnor (not to be confused with the Hyde Park Radnor, which is rather nice. We went there.) wasn't marked with anything flagrantly unbearable. Still, the wifi wasn't free, the building condition was appalling, and our room had no air conditioning. Also, we have a suspicion that our luggage may have been rifled through. My girlfriend is missing several items, although we can't be certain they went missing at that particular stage in our trip.

I would not stay at this hotel again.

  • Stayed July 2012
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 3 of 5 stars Location
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 2 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 2 of 5 stars Service
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Belfast, United Kingdom
1 review
1 helpful vote 1 helpful vote
“NEEDS A COMPLETE REFURBISHMENT!”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed June 8, 2012

This is definitely NOT a hotel, it is a very cheap B&B or even a hostel. The reception is upstairs in a room that doubled as the dining room. The place is uninviting and the 2 staff we encountered were unfriendly and unhelpful. They have no customer service skills, discourteous and did not appear to have training in hotel and food administration. One staff member sat and stared at those eating breakfast, the other sat behind a very high bench using a computer and was almost invisible. The breakfast was self-service offering cheap quality cornflakes, orange juice and hard-boiled eggs every single day! (boring) There was cheap tissues as serviettes/napkins on the table. Plastic picnic bowls were available for the cornflakes, the cups were small and some badly stained inside, some of the cutlery was also dodgy which was a concern from a health perspective! The place has no atmosphere and is extremely uninviting and creepy! It obviously has changed hands but needs a completed refurbished and repainted. Our room had been refurbished and was in the basement but no help was offered in getting our luggage downstairs. The room was cold and no attempt was made to make it any warmer. We DO NOT recommend this so-called 'hotel' in it's current state! IT NEEDS A COMPLETE REFURBISHMENT!

  • Stayed June 2012, traveled as a couple
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 1 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 2 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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Skelleftea, Sweden
1 review
2 helpful votes 2 helpful votes
“Never again”
1 of 5 stars Reviewed January 10, 2012

Me and my girlfriend stayed 5 unforgettable nights, in a new fawlty tower´s. the room was extreamly small. no hangers or closet. the lights were out in the bartroom, there were stop in tthe drainpipe. So we complained, and got a larger room the day after. So, that was ok, the room I mean. But instead no hotwater from the shower, hardly no water at all.

  • Stayed January 2012, traveled as a couple
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 1 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 1 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 3 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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Radnor Bayswater Hotel London, England
Address: 23 Inverness Terrace | Bayswater, London W2 3JR, England
Region: United Kingdom > England > London > Bayswater / Notting Hill / Lancaster Gate 
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