Blakemore Hyde Park

Good hotel for the price. I would stay there again.

The hotel is not that really near the underground station. It is about 10 mins walk. When I checked in this 4-star hotel, the staff in the reception was not friendly and helpful. He had no smile at all and spoke in a boring monotone throughout our conversation. He passed the keycard to me and showed me no details until I asked by myself. There was no one to bring either you or your luggage to your room. I was not sure if I expected too much for a 4-star hotel. When I went up to the room by elevator, I found it was unexpectedly small. I am a woman with a relatively small body size but the elevator could only hold me and at most 2 luggage in large size. I lived here for a week, the room service was not as good as a hotel should be. For the tissue box, you could obviously find that some extra tissue was just forcibly put into the box. I guess it should be the remaining tissue from the previous tissue box. I am eco-friendly but it was just not decent enough in a hotel room. 2 small towels were missed after morning room service. There was in-room dining served from 3pm to 10pm. When I tried to place order at 9:30pm, I was told the last order was at 9pm. I strongly suggested that it should be marked in the menu or guests expected they still could have something to eat after a busy day outside. At last, I had to drag my tiring body at around 10pm, under rain in winter, to search food outside where most diners were already closed.

Love the Blakemore, have been staying there every year for the last 6 years. Good to see some of the staff are still the same as the first year we stayed.

The Blakemore hotel was clean and tidy and appeared quite fresh and modern, unlike some hotels of this kind that are in need of decorating or a refurbishment. However, I have two criticisms the first being the TVs. I booked 2 rooms and one had a nice TV with many channel choices the other has a TV with 2 channels. When i queried this at the reception as i believed there was something wrong, i was told that some TVs have been updated and some have not so basically they are what they are. This wasn't a problem for me as our trip meant that we spent very little time in our room, however, our family in the other room spent more time in their room and it was most disconcerting. In this day and age and certainly in a hotel of this nature its not unreasonable to expect a fully functioning TV. If i had known this was the situation i would have booked a hotel elsewhere. The other issue was the breakfast area and facilities that are clearly not suitable for a number of guests all wanting to eat at the same time. If you eat breakfast at this hotel my advice is to plan your strategy and make sure there are at least two of you as there is only one coffee and one toast machine for the entire hotel which consists of 138 bedrooms. This means that if you want toast and coffee and or breakfast one or the other will get cold while you are queuing.

Staying on business and this is a Great hotel just 5 mins from Paddington station. Arrived late but was given an upgrade to a junior suite which was really well appointed and comfortable. Breakfast next morning was also good

Breakfast is good, room/ bed is comfortable. TheWe used the mini fridge and would have appreciated use of a microwave to reheat restaurant takeout.

Staff friendly and helpful.Hotel was quiet and is in an excellent location. Ideal for underground and bus routes into Central London. Have stayed there before and will definitely return.

Room noisy on ground floor

When researching my stay in London, I had noticed that few hotels received higher ratings Reviewers rated the Blakemore as "Very Good" so I gave it a try. The good: From other hotel reviews, a common complaint of London Hotels was small room size. My room was a comfortable, adequate size. The Front Desk accommodated me on several issues which I appreciated: there are ongoing renovations, mostly on the ground floor currently. They gave me a room on the fifth floor which was mosly far enough from the noise. Also, my room was very cold the first night. Front Desk provided a space heater and turned on the wall heat which I was unaware of. The continental breakfast was more than I anticipated, though there was no variation (what can you do). Breakfast room personnel friendly and helpful. The not so good: I thought I saw somewhere that the rooms were renovated, though it may have been a reviewer. This was certainly not the case for my room....it was simply too banged up: ratty curtains, flickering ambience lighting, damaged bathroom sink drain At night with the curtains closed, the room is rather dark even with all lighting turned on. hotels.com describes the room as having a shower/tub combination. My room just had a shower. Most concerning was the numerous interruptions toward the end of my stay. Someone knocked on my door 3 times in the matter of 2 days! Housekeeping inspection, air conditioning guy, etc. I wondered if I was even being observed!

If you are travelling on busnienss then do not stay at this hotel - they are unable to produce you a receipt for the amount paid after speaking the management and everything - an absolute joke, my only guess it they are running some kind of VAT scam on everyone. I'll be reporting the hotel to authorities.