Westminster House Hotel, London, England

80 %Customer Satisfaction*

LOCATION :

This small hotel is located in central London, Victoria. From here there is easy access to any airport or station of the capital.

There is no better and safer location than Victoria, this is the most historical and the most touristic place in London and England. From our hotel there is between 5 to 20 minutes walk to Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Saatchi Gallery, Tate Gallery, Victoria&Albert museum, King's College University, Westminster Abbey, Thames River, London Eye, Hyde Park, Harrods, Chelsea Football Club, Piccadilly Circus, National History Museum, Science Museum,etc.

WHO LIVED IN OUR AREA?

In and around our street, Ebury street, lived and/or worked many people of great historical influence in different fields of life, to name some of them : Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, Charlie Chaplin, James Joyce, Ian Fleming, Amadeus Mozart, Thomas Cubitt, , Alfred Tennyson, Edith Evans, Oscar Wilde, George Moore, Joseph Conrad, Mary Shelley, Douglas McMelan, John Russell, Robert Peel, A.P Primrose, Lord Palmerston, Laurance olivier&Vivien Leigh, Neville Chamberlain, John Lubock, Edward Stanley, Henry Temple, Stanley Baldwin, Herbert Asquith, Aubrey Beardsley, Harold Nicholson, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Barbara Pym, Laura Ashley, Catherine Johnson, Steve Hackett,and so on...

SOME HISTORY:

The land where our hotel stands was sold in 1623 by King James 1st (1566-1625) to some wealthy families and kept on being sold over the years until it came in the hands of heiress Mary Davies who married in 1677 Sir Thomas Grosvenor... In 1825 the famous architect Thomas Cubitt was contracted by Lord Grosvenor to develop the whole area and sell it as residential properties... In 1947 our address was converted from a residential property into a hotel.

We, the current owners, British family of French and Italian origins have had this hotel since 1997 and tried over the years,like the previous owners,not to modernize it but to keep it look traditional and old- fashion, that is why it is appreciated by most guests.

HOTEL DESCRIPTION:

Whilst this is not a luxury hotel, every effort is made to keep the rooms serviced daily, so they are clean and comfortable. Therefore, we think they are offered at reasonable prices in this very expensive area.

Friendliness, help, assistance and hospitality are our principles in the way we deal with our guests because we feel some kind of personal approach towards them which goes beyond traditional business boundaries. For this reason most of our new guests leave our hotel with an excellent impression about us and about London.

There is a choice of rooms with private bathroom and some budget rooms with shared bathroom, requested mostly by students.

PLEASE READ B4 MAKING YOUR RESERVATION :

-Check-in time start from 8 in the morning but rooms are ready from 12 mid-day.

-On your departure you can store your luggage free of charge. It must be collected before 7 pm. You can also store your luggage for a few days if you need to, but there is a charge for this servece.

-Fresh towels are supplied everyday, soap and shampoo on arrival (free of charge).

- We'll start serving snack breakfast from 08th october, all rooms have tea/coffee facilities.

-Our triple rooms have 1 big and 1 small beds not 3 single beds.

-The hotel has 4 floors, there is no lift, our reception is on the basement floor. If you are an elderly or have a problem climbing stairs please contact us after you have made your reservation to allocate you on a lower floor, subject to availability.

- There is no internet access in the hotel, but a lot of internet cafes are in the vicinity.

- Rooms in British hotels are smaller in size compared to North American hotel rooms for example.

- If you need to cancel your reservation please call us 48 hours before your arrival to avoid being charge one night deposit.

GUESTS COMMENTS:

All comments written by guests who stayed with us are true, including the harsh ones. We thank them for helping us change or improve things, our guests are our most important critics. But sometimes we get guests who pay for the price of a small basic hotel but they expect the services of a 5 star hotel.

London is not only expensive but a city where it is really hard to find harmony between price, location, safety, hospitality and comfort. We think we provide that to our guests. To be sure of that, please read all the comments.

Finally, read what Napoleaon Bonaparte had said about London '...If only one state existed on earth, London should be its capital'.

Wishing all of you a pleasant stay in this exciting city.