Colliers Hotel — Hotel in London

I don't usually write reviews but my booking company encouraged me to warn future travelers. I rented a room for 5 days, with the low cost being very appealing. However, I ended up paying 3 times the cost just to escape.

Aside from an incredibly small bedroom (the pictures are not accurate) and ridiculously tiny bathroom (unless you're a child, you'll likely struggle turning around in there) and unpleasant smell, I had the worst hotel encounter of my life.

The keys were being replaced as I returned on my 2nd night, and I needed to get a new one from that night's front desk clerk, who was the only employee there at the time. We exchanged pleasantries, but the clerk began going into a long-winded, insane and racist conspiracy rant about how his home country was where all human civilization began (with jet packs being common over a thousand years ago), how Einstein stole the Theory of Relativity from their sacred texts, and how Chinese immigrants (among other countries) go to the UK and USA to "have babies and get passports." Despite me repeating multiple times that I wished to return to my room, he was insistent that I listen to "the truth," as I had been brainwashed. When he finally let me escape, he told me we had a "special friendship" with complete seriousness. This man had full access to my room. I was very tempted to call the police or sleep in a park.

After I reported my encounter to my booking company 5 minutes later, they tried to reach the manager. The front desk clerk claimed to be the manager. We later found out this was false, as I received a call to my room at 1AM from the clerk asking why I reported him to his boss for "teaching me ancient history" and harassing me into writing an email saying it was a misunderstanding.

I stayed awake all night and left as soon as a new hotel had a room available.

I was told I'd get a refund for my remaining days, but as far as I can tell the actual manager isn't even in the country. Please safe yourself the trouble and...

Very bad experience. It might be me but for the price paid, this was a joke. We first were put in a room that was separated from another by just a door, so that we had the privilege to hear all about the woman next door's fascinating phone conversations and TV watching. She smoked in her room, which was absolutely forbidden, and when my companion went to ask the receptionist to do something about it, he told him to "turn on the ventilation in the bathroom"... We asked to change rooms and the following day we were moved to a slightly better room (although the windows opened on the alley where the garbage bags were stored, in front of the window of the breakfast room - so if we opened the curtains in the morning people eating could watch us in our room at the same time, lovely - and it was right in the way to get to the breakfast room so very noisy in the morning). The breakfast was also a joke: only hot water was available, then you'd either put instant coffee or a bag of tea in it. Then there was bread, a toaster and butter and some marmelade I think. The breakfast was for one hour only, someone came at 8h55 and was told that he couldn't get in (hello customer service). During the whole breakfast the personnel would be clearing and cleaning all around us non-stop (wouldn't even wait until the breakfast was over), to the point at which if you so much as left your seat they'd be putting your stuff away, even if you weren't done. The butter and stuff for the next morning was put out right after breakfast was over (meaning the butter stayed out overnight). Only the manager was a decent English-speaker, so it was incredibly complicated to communicate with the staff. All in all, appart for the location of the hotel which was pretty perfect (close to Victoria Station), it was a pretty...

A cheap, super affordable hotel that doesn't claim to be fancy in any shape or form - but considering the low price, it gets the job done in a pinch/emergency.

Had to stay overnight in London due to the current railway strikes. All of the trains home were cancelled at the last moment, and so we had to book an overnight hotel room and a coach ticket for returning home the following day. For 2 people, we paid £69.00 to stay the night and were graciously allowed to check out later than 10am the following morning for an additional cost of £10 (we asked to check out at 12pm noon, so 2 hours later than the original check out time).

Our room was small but big enough to fit a double bed, whilst the bathroom was a very tiny and slim cubicle that included a toilet, sink/mirror and stand in shower. Both the room itself and the bathroom were clean. Toilet roll, tea/coffee and an electric kettle were provided. No elevator within this building, so you will have to carry your luggage up or down the stairs depending on which floor your room is on. The room and building as a whole were fairly warm/stuffy for a day in January, and so I wonder if it's something to do with the insulation, heating or ventilation within the building itself. Our room was located next to the road, which is a semi-busy street so if you're looking to get some restful sleep, closing the window is a must. Although with how stuffy and warm it tends to get, you may want to try sleeping with the windows open a crack at first. The bed and pillows weren't super comfortable, and took a while to get used to before we were able to doze off. However, considering the price it was still a steal for 1 night in Central...