The Belgrove Hotel  

The location

Everything else - staff were miserable and unhelpful, no towels in the room, couldn't shut the window and heard street noise all night.

Very well positioned for transport from St Pancras or Kings Cross rail stations in fact location could not be better.

Very restricted for space and moving about the building is not easy especially with luggage. Rooms are tiny and very warm even with a window wide open. However it is cheap and cheerfull and for one night nearly tolerable

I booked the Belgrove hotel as I was unable to obtain rooms in our usual hotel and which was made additionally attractive because of the lower room rate. On arrival we found the female receptionist very friendly and welcoming. The following morning we also found that the girls in the breakfast room very polite and efficient in organising our table.

Because of the smaller area of the dining room,we found that on two mornings of our three night stay,we had to stand and wait for a table to become available as unfortunately this hotel does NOT have a lounge to use for this purpose. Whilst the rooms had clean enough beds & toilets, my own room had no bathroom shelf which meant keeping all my toiletries on my bedside cabinet! There was also only TWO coathangers in the wardrobe and the main room light on the ceiling was minus a shade which was the most obvious clue of being economy class!! With the carpet also being a bit worn in places and the furniture looking "very tired" this can only be suitable if you want to save money and are not bothered about comfort!!!

The location, which is literally just across the road from London, King's Cross Station.

Tiny room making it virtually impossible for two people to be in it at the same time. The equally small bathroom had a shower, which was not separated from the rest of the room, which meant that when you had a shower, the whole floor was covered in water. We had to queue for breakfast, which was not worth the wait, with leathery, tasteless food. The whole hotel is very rundown, with broken balusters on the staircase and peeling wallpaper both around the hotel and in our room. It also has a very musty smell to it.

Conveniently placed between Kings Cross / St Pancras and Euston stations at an excellent price.

The sound proofing isn't great so inconsiderate neighbours can be a problem.

Perfect for Eurostar

The bed was far from being a double.

It was cheap, and where I needed to be. You don't often (ever?) get a cooked breakfast included in the price in a hotel in this price bracket, so that was good. I had a room at the back so it was nice and quiet. The room was clean (but see below) and the shower was nice and hot.

It was really, really, old and shabby which meant that even though the room was clean, it didn't really look clean. The reception area stank of stale cigarette smoke which wasn't very nice, although the rest of the place smelt ok. The cooked breakfast was a nice surprise but the non- cooked options were pretty poor - orange squash instead of juice, only cereal was cornflakes and the only think you could have on your toast was marmalade. TV reception in the room was not great (no BBC channels, and the rest kept cutting out). Hotel not able to provide a VAT receipt when I checked out, and didn't seem to know what one was.

a) It was cheap b) breakfast was ok c) the shower worked with hot water

You get what you pay for ; this is a cheap hotel so I didn't expect large towels, toilet paper, working radiators, a bath mat or a working plug in the sink; and I wasn't disappointed.

It's a basic, dated but clean hotel. Location is great (King Cross Station is opposite the street) with lots of possibillity's for eating/drinking and Metrolines. I would go again!!

Friendly staff and good location

Close to St Pancras, good price, basic accommodation.

It's proximity to St Pancras Station,plus I feel standards are improving.

The cramped conditions in the rooms