Point A London, Paddington — Hotel in London

Literally able to walk out of Paddington Station, 200ft down the road and check in. No dragging a suitcase on the tube.

It's a completely basic hotel. Spotlessly clean and comfortable. The thing that's great about it is you can check in, leave your bag, and head out to enjoy London.

The hotel has a 24 hour café which I didn't use. Locally, you can walk to lovely cafés in Marylebone, Middle Eastern food on Edgeware Road, or walk up through Paddington Basin to Maida Vale to eat. Lots of good bars nearby.

Hyde Park is not far. I tend to walk everywhere if I can so my notion of 'walkable' includes longer distances - it took me an hour, at an amble to walk into Fitzrovia to meet a friend for supper, stopping in a few shops along the way. Museums and theatres would take a similar amount of time. Otherwise, there's two tube stations and a taxi rank, in spitting distance of the hotel.

With the window closed there's very little noise from the street. Tubes do run under the hotel but all I could hear from my third floor room was a very distant rumble which I barely registered, but, if you are the kind of person who is kept awake by the slightest noise, it's worth bearing in mind. It stops around 1 am - so, if you are going out in the evenings, you may not even be in bed when this is happening. The windows have amazing blackout curtains.

Towels and body wash which doubles as shampoo are provided. You need to bring toothpaste, flannels, toothbrush, and proper shampoo and conditioner if you so wish. There's a hair dryer in one of the drawers. No wardrobe, but lots of hooks and clothes hangers. There's a TV. No kettle, but you can get tea and coffee in the cafe downstairs 24/7. Lots of plugs, including one by the bed so you can charge your mobile and still see the time.

There's plenty of natural light to do your makeup.

Rooms are a little small - but perfectly adequate if you just want a clean, comfortable place to stay while you head out.

There's a safe by the bed so you can leave passport, jewellery safely while you go out.

Air con / heating. Only thing is the air con makes clicking noises which I found disconcerting coming out of the dark in a strange place.

Check out is by 11 - but I wanted to go to a museum before catching my train home, so the hotel have a service where you can store your case in reception even after check out. This costs £3 - much less than left luggage at Paddington.

All in all, great...

Myself and partner stayed at this hotel in Paddington on the 28th June 2025. When booking this room, we had booked a window double room. When doing my online check in for this room I had informed the hotel that we would be booking in later as we were at a concert during the day into the evening. When arriving at the hotel that evening, we were informed by the gentleman on the desk that our room was double booked and unfortunately they then put this to a 'first come first serve' basis. As you can imagine, this was a very frustrating thing to hear. However, the most frustrating part of this was being informed that the day staff had already been made aware of the double booking and did not think to let me know, or my partner know of this mistake. Due to the fact we were going to be booking in later I tried to ring the hotel multiple times throughout the day, however there was no answer. This lack of any form of communication is not acceptable in most cases, however, the lack of communication to let us know that the room was double booked was even more so.

The gentleman behind the desk was extremely rude within this encounter, showing no sign of apology or care that this had happened, repeating that 'this just happens when we are busy'. The gentleman discussed that they would book a cab for us to take us to another hotel if there was space, this led to us being sat in the lobby for approximately 45 minutes late at night. This, again, was just unacceptable. We were then informed that there was a downgraded room available as somebody had not arrived yet, therefore they were going to offer this room to us. This, again, highlighted how unacceptable the booking process is and how it leaves people without the rooms they have booked. Whilst we were eventually given a room, this was a downgraded room that was very small.

Overall, I would not advise booking through this hotel. The price compared to the service and rooms do not equate at all. While the location is fairly good, not as close to everything as it makes out, it is not a hotel that would be high on my...

My partner & I stayed at Point A for one night. I have never stayed in a Point A hotel before so wasn't sure what to expect but I wanted value for money and that's definitely what I got! I booked a room with no windows at £72 (which was pretty good for London and I had only booked about a week before!).

On arrival the reception was clean and bright and receptionist was friendly. She 'upgraded' me to a room with windows which in hindsight I'm not sure I would go for again - simply because a lot of noise came through the window during the night. Personally I am able to sleep through loud noises but my partner struggled to have much sleep at all. Clearly this had been an issue in the past as the room was supplied with one set of ear plugs. I'm unsure how much better a windowless room would have been for noise too as some noise also came through from other guests' rooms (nothing mega just people in the corridor or leaving/entering their own rooms..).

The room itself was made up of a double bed, TV and toilet/shower room. As it's London, these things do take up most the room but it was great for what we needed. The bed was comfortable, the TV worked fine and was good quality, the shower was a really good pressured shower and the air con actually worked well, which I don't normally see in hotels! Things I would have perhaps liked to see but weren't there would have been a full length mirror, and maybe tea/coffee making facilities in the room (or even knowing if the tap water is drinkable) - the rooms are probably too small to be able to provide these things however.

On check out I was again met with friendly reception staff and they were able to look after my bag for the day which I got complementary rather than having to pay the small charge (£3) which was nice.

Overall I think it is definitely a great place to stay for up to a couple of nights but for longer trips I think I would personally want more in the...