The Queens Hotel

I really enjoyed my time here! The Queens Hotel is a no frills B&B for those on a budget.
The good:
— Inexpensive and cozy!
— FREE breakfast! I love it when food is free. :) You have a choice of a full English or continental breakfast. Go with the full English, as the continental is just cereal or oatmeal with some toast. Their full English is really good. Did I mention it’s free?
— Great location as it’s right by the Tufnell Park Tube station. I found it really easy to get to the Queens Hotel from Heathrow.
— It’s quiet. I only stayed here 3 nights, but I never heard noise from any other residents.
— Quite safe. They have 24-​hour reception.
The bad:
— The ONLY bad thing about this place is the Wi-​Fi. I stayed on floor 2 and their Wi-​Fi did not reach up to my room. I wasn’t too bothered as I have free international data through T-​Mobile, but others with different cellular networks would find this really inconvenient. You can always go down to their lobby to use Wi-​Fi if you really need it.
I really have no qualms about the Queens Hotel. Others may not like it due to its lack of fancy things, but this place does not pretend to be fancy. It’s clean, comfortable, and the reception is very nice and helpful.

I found myself suddenly without a hotel for Saturday night (no, I did not trash the place in honour of Keith Moon; my hostel and I jointly messed up my last night’s reservation).
My friends who live in London were variously in India and laid up with flu. I quickly scored a room at this place online after a panicked search, and after a short and rather beautiful late afternoon cab ride from Swiss Cottage I walked through the pretty Victorian doors to a warm and friendly reception from Norah, went to my clean and cozy little room to unpack to the sounds of the TV, and took a long walk to Archway enjoying the architecture and charm of the high street.
The free English breakfast was tasty but three times too big, not a problem I object to, so I spirited it off with me and it sustained me all day. Chris, the morning receptionist, told me how to get the bus for Notting Hill (where I had arranged to stay the next day), and I ended up so happy with the place that I booked additional days there for when I get back from France later this week. Enough autobiography; check this place out.

Schlimm, verschimmelt, schmudelig, unfreundlich. Das «Frühstück» war mehr asl basic in einem Raum der ganz ohne Dekoration oder etwa Bilder an den Wänden. Ich konnte nicht abwarten auszuchecken!