Gresham Hotel Bloomsbury  

This was the single worst hotel I have ever been to. So bad in fact that I checked out at 12.30am without staying a single night. Having turned up to check in, dumped my bags and then gone out, upon my return I was refused entry into the annexe building until I paid the full amount for my stay there. Then had to walk up the six flights of stairs to my room. The smell from the room can only be described as raw sewage and when I got to using the bathroom in my room it was completely bare and didn't even have toilet roll. The walls were paper thin and the door didn't even go to the floor. The icing on top of the cake was when I looked down at my belongings on one of the rooms in the bed and saw brown life crawling over them. I was then refused a refund when I went to check out as frankly, I refused to stay in facilities like that. It felt unsafe and the staff were entirely unfriendly and in fact quite hostile, especially when you ask about their apparently non-existent refunds policy. Do not stay here.

Hi All, the location was very good lots of activities around the area. The staff were friendly and very accommodating. The linen was changed every day and we got fresh towels.

Hi All, the Hotel itself was very disappointing no lifts were available and we stayed on the top floor. Very basis accommodation with no breakfast but the staff were very friendly.

Hello, We stayed for one night (Sat 30th Apr) in the Gresham Hotel Bloomsbury. I would like to express how disgusted I am with the hotel. Upon arrival the lady on the desk was very rude to us and made us pay upon arrival. (I do not have a problem with this but you usually pay when you check out). She originally tried to put us into Standard Rooms which only had a shared bathroom (this is the reason for us booking a Family Room). Once she had agreed to give us the family room we had booked we were thrown a key and pointed to a doorway to our room. Upon entering the room I could not believe my eyes - the filth and state of the room was nothing like what had been shown on the website. The room was dirty & dusty, there were stains and marks everywhere, and the bathroom was mouldy and just very unclean. We had little time after we checked in and agreed to simply get changed and head straight back out again as we did not have time to call you etc to change the hotel. We then decided to stay out of the hotel as long as possible as it just felt as though we were residing in a flea pit. We would not even use the Toilet or Bathroom in our room as it was that filthy. My friend was actually sick when she opened the bathroom door. We also had to leave the one and only room key with Reception when we were out and about, meaning that all of our posessions could be accessed whilst we were out - the receptionist also changed shifts so our belonging were very insecure. I understand that £90 for a family room in London could be classed as a reasonable price, but I did not sign up to something that resembled a squat when I made my reservation. Even for basic accomodation you at least expect basic levels of cleanliness and for the rooms to be maintained to a basic standard. Could you please come back to me with some kind of resoloution as I am not satisfied that I had to pay £90 to stay in a room that quite frankly I would not expect my worst enemy to stay in.

The linen was clean.

The cleanliness of the bathroom facilities was poor. It was in a poor state of repair in that the tv didn't work, the clothes rail was falling to bits. The peg in the shower room had fallen to the floor and was just left there. There was rubbish on the stairs for the duration of our stay which was not moved.

It was cheap

Really drab. Little better than a hostel

Convenient location between Euston and Victoria st. Around 15 minutes near base trade streets and city center.

Poor and smell.

The most important thing about the hotel is that its position is very central, just one minute walk to the British Museum; afterwards even the relation between price and quality is not bad at all if you want to slay in the heart of Bloomsbury.

As usual, having a shared bathroom always represents a distasteful limit for those travellers used to the European standards in terms of cleanliness/hygene and room comfort, but after all in England this appears to be the most common way to offer accomodation.

That it was close to where I stayed and even though I turned up an hour early for check in the staff went out of their way to ready my room so I didn't have to wait too long - thank you.

The heat in the tiny room - I had to open the window at 5am and then the traffic was pretty loud.

Convenient, cheap, clean, friendly. This hotel is on an incredible location backing onto the British Museum and within walking distance of Oxford Street, Soho, Bloomsbury, Trafalgar Square and Coventry Garden. I always stay in one of the back rooms and there you can also say it's very quiet too. The staff are friendly and helpful and the place is quite private too. If you're looking for any kind of luxury then don't go to the Gresham, but it's clean and functional.

The room has only a small TV, with just the 5 basic channels. Wi-fi would be a great addition, but having said that I would not want to pay a higher rate for those luxuries, a budget hotel is a budget hotel and that's what I want.

The hotel was in a fantastic location and was reasonably priced for this. The receptionist gave us an upgrade to private bathroom which was kind of her.

I would say that the rooms could definitely do with a lick of paint and a good clean. Bed linen was ripped, bathroom light did not have a cover, shower door was broken, very little room to move in the bathroom and no pillow cases for any of the spare pillows.

It was completly different to the pictures on the website.I Felt it was false advertisment.The hotel was very badly run down,dirty there was a very bad damp smell in the room.It was nothing like what I expected by the pictures in the website.I Felt it was cery unsecure as the hotel room door did not lock.I Was not recommend this hotel to anybody.

lady on desk was helpful

booked hotel because it said it was near covent garden,that ended up 20 mins away.put in groundfloor front room,very noisy till about 3 am.no tea or coffee making service which would have been good.room clean and tidy but next time i will spend more money on hotel.