I don't get it, there must be five hundred hotels like this in London, it's sort of a British specialty, skinny mattresses with protruding springs, dingy, not well cleaned, crooked doors with loose hinges, laminate flooring that looks like it was second hand when it was installed, lime scale encrusted sinks and showers and no consideration for grace or comfort at all. I wish that the people who owned these hotels, who obviously make a lot of money (I paid $300 for one night) had the desire to make the world a more beautiful place, instead of creating what is essentially a rentable slum. My room, for example, didn't even have a bed side table or reading lamp. There was literally nowhere to put my clothes, it was just a bed in a room with a weird shower unit in the corner. The only positive was the friendly staff. Would I go here again? Sadly, yes, because most of the less expensive hotels in london are just as bad -- shame on the landlords. They could easily make them nicer without incurring huge expenses but they simply don't care.