The Tower

Pleasant enough hotel with a spectacular view over Tower Bridge, if you’re on the good side of the hotel. Spectacularly ugly building looking from the outside, but it’s quite comfortable once you’re inside and can’t see the exterior. Service is friendly and accommodating. I had a mishap with my credit cards while staying there and had to extend my stay a night. This happened to be the night before the London Marathon, and hotels in the area were booked solid. They managed to fit me in for another night, and the concierge helped me to rebook my BA flight to Milan. There’s not much happening at night in the immediate vicinity, but that isn’t the hotel’s fault. Rooms are relatively spacious by UK standards, and have all the amenities I needed for business travel (including this wonderful device to press clothes).

Check-​in: this was easy, staff member was friendly. 3pm check-​in which is later than I have experienced with other hotels I have stayed at.
Room: had an amazing view of Tower Bridge, lucky to get this view. Furniture in the room was more in an old fashioned design, which made it a little atmostpheric. Plenty of facilities.
Breakfast: a very decent range of items to self-​serve or get someone to make an omlette for you.
Location: about 10 – 15 minutes walk from Tower Hill and Fenchurch Street stations. This is why we chose the hotel. The walk might be a bit much for some people.
Problem 1: Interesting to read other comments about temperature in the room as we had the exact same issue. It was freezing in the room and we couldn’t control it. I caught a cold and still trying to get over it. Hotel provided supplementary heating but took a long time to arrive.
Problem 2: Even though I got authorization on my credit card for ‘pay as you go’ services such as breakfast the staff in restaurant couldn’t find that transaction and there was a bit of an embarrassing mess. We decided to go elsewhere for breakfast on the other days we were there as I didn’t want to be dealing with that again, there are places that are cheaper on the dock than the hotel including Starbucks.
In summary it was a pleasant experience staying here. The price = the view. Wasn’t happy about the lack of heating. Would stay here again, if I had the money, and maybe during the hotter weather!

My friend got married at the Tower Hotel in January 2015, the location is fantastic and we had an incredible view of tower bridge lit up for the evening. The rooms themselves are a little dated, you feel like you might be at a work conference, but they worked perfectly well for the function. The food was incredible (it was an indian wedding) and the staff were generally very helpful. Having said that, if I was the one getting married I would have been very frustrated by the music during the ceremony (which was sporadic, badly timed and always at the wrong volume) and with the bar tender who seemed very put out to be asked to be serving drinks at all! Overall, very satisfactory venue in a great location.

Very disappointed that a hotel of this price does not allow you to control the temperature in the room. They set the temperature of the hotel and although they have an air conditioner dial in the room it does not turn on or off the air. I don’t ask for much staying in a hotel room but having a nice cold room is one necessity for me to be comfortable.
With the upgrade in rooms, increased price, and now reduced services, I will be giving feedback to my company to never use this hotel or its partners again. The tipping point for me is when I first called and said it was hot they offered me a fan. This is a hotel, not hostel!

The view was great. But not much else. Starting with a not helpful, or friendly, concierge, my stay digressed from there. To a room refidgerator that did not open, to no answer when calling the front desk when I called at 8pm, capped off with misleading information in the guest book. They write in the book to call for more information about transport to the airpot, but all that means is they will call you a cab. For the price I paid I expect more than just an amazing view. I am not impressed with my stay.

Went for an afternoon tea today — they had Unlimited prosecco which was great but I didn’t really rate he afternoon tea. I guess you get what you pay for. The service was very good however and they let us stay as long as we liked and they even bought a surprise for my friends birthday which was a lovely touch to her day.

I have no idea about what others are saying about the price of this hotel. I’ve never paid more than $ 250 per night. And this time, I only paid $ 150 power night. Yes the hotel is not very modern but I think it is plenty good enough for the price and location paid. The rooms are decently sized. There are also many restaurateur around the area but they are not that good. The restaurant in the hotel is definitely not good. The Starbucks right next to the hotel is owned by the hotel and not Starbucks. This means you cannot use your Starbucks card or App. Go a bit further inside the docks and you’ll find a Starbucks that you can use your App and get your stars.
Passing extra for a bridge view is not really worry it as you can just go out and you’ll get a great view also. Plus looking at the bridge every night gets boring.

Hotel is in an amazing location with beautiful views of the tower of London. I’ve stayed here a few times and had some good rooms and bad rooms. Ask for a room facing the tower. If you are going to stay here get a bridge view room. They also have views of the marina which are slightly cheaper. If you upgrade to an executive room– you get a complimentary mini bar & they it give you access to their club on the 5^th floor where they have some snacks & drinks (red wine, white wine, prosecco). They also serve canapes but only at certain times and I never made it in time. I feel like they should extend the time they offer canapes as I arrived at 7pm and they had stopped serving. The vibe is very quiet inside the club as well. The breakfast included in the breakfast rate if you choose to select it is average– nothing amazing but a buffet of breakfast items and if you come earlier they have someone making omlettes. Staff were very polite and friendly when I had a room issue as well. I would return.

Definitely not worth the price.
If I were not attending a wedding at this hotel I would definitely not stay here. There are so many more options out there that are cheaper and cuter.
Rooms are in desperate need of an upgrade. It looks like they have not done anything for decades. Beds are really stiff and uncomfortable. AC was very weak! Shower pressure was one step above trickling water.
I really could go on and on about how terrible this hotel was.
Also not a very wonderful place for a wedding. The staff was kind of lazy or inexperienced — they never served us any drinks after the initial during so I was parched majority of the time. They also forgot to give us champagne during the wedding toast, so I toasted with an empty glass. And to add to that the room where the reception was located was also VERY hot. I was in a tube dress and was still drenched in sweat.

The Tower is not worth its price. From the outside, the hotel looks dreary and rundown. When we arrived in front of the hotel, we had thought we were at the wrong address. After going into the lobby, we were surprised to see that the lobby actually looked quite nice. We were slightly more optimistic about how our hotel room would look. However, once we got to the room, we were extremely disappointed. The room was shabby and it looked like it had been badly refurbished. The curtains were tacky and looked moldy. They clashed with the hideous wallpaper, which was peeling. There was an ancient hairdryer on the wall, it was a model from 2000. The shower and sink didn’t even have actual plugs. Instead, they had old rubber drain stoppers.
The corridors are dark and look incredibly sketchy. The closets smelled like dust. The mini-​fridge wouldn’t open. The fridge door was supposed to be connected to the door of a cabinet, but it wasn’t properly attached, so when the cabinet door opened, the fridge door didn’t go with it. We had no way of opening the fridge. Also, another cabinet door was missing its handle.
The room was incredibly dusty, and we tried to stay out of it as much as possible, as it gave us all terrible allergies.
All in all, it was a very unpleasant experience.

Sehr in die Jahre gekommenes Hotel. Von außen eher abschreckend und innen auch in die Jahre gekommen. Im Hotel dauerte vom Check-​in über Room-​Service alles extrem lange. Obwohl mehrere Aufzüge da sind, ist es nahezu unmöglich in einer angemessenen Zeit einen Aufzug zu bekommen, so dass wir aus der bierten Etage ständig Treppen gelaufen sind.

Probably too expensive for leisure trips other than for the happy few, as a business hotel, this is about as good as it gets. Very nice rooms, great conference facilities, free high speed WiFi, and great, very personal service. On top of everything: great view of the Tower Bridge (up close and personal).

The hotel itself was pretty modern and nice, but the staff was very mediocre. It was difficult to understand the girl who checked us in because of her lisp and accent, and she was also slow and not very knowledgeable. Also, the older concierge was even less helpful, and seemed like he was just waiting for retirement. We tried asking him where some good places to eat around the hotel were, and he gave a couple of half hearted suggestions without paying attention to what we were asking. The other two guys that float around in front of the desk are also not very helpful. What was the worst is the car service they set us up with for our trip to Heathrow– the driver was awful! He tried talking us up about the travel agency he works for during the weekday, and kept floating across into the other lanes. He would also stomp on the brakes last minute, and had the windows down instead of turning on the AC so wind was blowing in our faces most of the ride. Then, we found out the hotel only pays him 28 pounds for the trip whereas we had to pay the hotel 86 pounds– THREE TIMES THE COST OF WHAT THEY ARE PAYING THE DRIVER. This is a total rip off, and you should take a cab or try to book a car service directly to avoid being swindled. Also, there aren’t very many restaurants in this area, and you are quite far from downtown London (about 15 – 20 minutes via cab).
Onto the couple of pros of staying at this hotel– you are only a block away from the Tower of London, and the beautiful bridge that connects you to it. There is also free wi-​fi available, and a restaurant located onsite, but it’s on the pricey side (breakfast also costs 12 pounds). At least the room is clean and the bed was pretty comfortable, although one of the bedside lamps was broken.
Overall, I wouldn’t stay at this hotel again if given a choice.

UBahn, Tower of London und Tower Bridge in unmittelbarer Nähe. Das Personal ist kompetent und freundlich, die Zimmer sauber und das Frühstück ist großartig.

I had the pleasure of seeing my cousin here on business and her hotel room looked really swanky. We were pushed for time so thought we’d get a bite to eat at the hotel. A real let down and really expensive! For snacks we ordered tempura prawns and piri piri chicken, nothing exciting, but not hard to get wrong and thought would go well with a couple of casual margaritas. You’d think. It was like mum had gone to Iceland and on the way home and divorced dad. Sad Ketchupy, insipid, once frozen and microwaved chicken and not tempura prawns but some sort of budget wedding finger food prawns wrapped in filo pastry. Served with straight out of the bottle, no doubt extra value tedious, sweet chili sauce. Gah it made me mad. Had there not been a window looking out onto the beautiful romantic Thames I’d have chucked it in the river, plate as well.
If you are staying at this hotel, forget it jump in a taxi and go to The Table in Southwark, I implore you. Just behind the Tate Modern.

This is not a good hotel. This is a bad hotel. Don’t stay at this hotel. Hospitality is a pretty important thing for a hotel to have. The Guoman Tower Hotel seriously lacks hospitality. So yea. If that’s important to you, stay away. They were not very nice when I checked in. They acted like they were doing ME a favor by helping me check in. When I paid for the room they asked me if I wanted to keep the card on file for room service. I said yes. When I ordered room service they said that they didn’t have a card number. So I had to give them the information all over again and the girl didn’t even apologize. She acted like I must have been the one that made a mistake. And honestly, even if it had been all my fault, she should have apologized anyway and pretended it was her fault. That’s just the way it works at hotels.
The room cleaning is quite lackluster. I come back every night and there’s something left undone. A dirty dish left on my desk. A trashcan left deconstructed on the floor. 1 less face towel than there should be. I spilled something on the white bedspread and they didn’t replace it. The room service was also awful. Nothing was good.
The location is awful. It’s nowhere near anything. Sure, if you want to see the Tower Bridge from your room, then it has a good view. But it cannot possibly be worth it.
I hate writing bad reviews. I really do. But I feel it is my duty to save other people from this place. Just stay away.

Das Tower Hotel ist ein mittlerweile etwas in die Jahre gekommenes 4-​Sterne Hotel in gehobener Preiskategorie.
Im Dezember hat die Klimaanlage, die auch für die Heizung verantwortlich ist in meinem Zimemr nicht funktioniert und ich musste erst einmal den Service verständigen, nachdem ich bereits einen Zimmerwechsel vorgenommen hatte. Man hatte mir nicht das gebuchte Zimemr mit Themseblick (kostet Aufpreis), sondern ein Zimmer zum St. Katherine’s Dock gegeben.
Abgesehen davon war ich wieder zufrieden mit dem Hotel. Das Personal ist freundlich, das englische Frühstücksbuffet ist gut. Die Verkehrsanbindung ist gut und zentral.
Ich fahre seit Jahren immer wieder in dieses Hotel und werde wohl auch künftig in diesem Hotel absteigen.

This hotel billed me $ 9.68 for a 19 second phone call! 51 cents per second. I think they charge 6 pounds per minute, and round any shorter interval up to the next minute. Thank goodness I used incoming calls or voip for everything else. I guess hotels feel they can under-​bill for rooms to get the customer and then make up their loss with service charges. They should expect poor reviews for anything this egregious.
One scary thing was the near total absence of stairways on the residential floors. This place could be a deathtrap in a fire. I was able to find only one narrow stairway on my floor, very far from my room. At the bottom was a sign to the effect of «THIS DOOR IS TO REMAIN CLOSED, THERE ARE TELEVISION CAMERAS HERE, YOU ARE BEING WATCHED». I pushed through the door and went about my business anyway.
There are only four elevators for a very large hotel, and the wait can get long. I would have liked to be able to use the stairs instead, as I would in any hotel in most countries, without having to hike all of the way across the building and without being made to feel a criminal for doing so.
The hotel ran out of bread during breakfast one day. I could not help saying «let them eat cake!» to the hapless guests around me.
They can be very slow to bring coffee or tea at breakfast, which was not available at the buffet. Of course I am used to much more modest places that always bring coffee or tea as soon as they greet a customer. Given that they don’t have the staff to be so prompt in so large a place, putting urns in the buffet would help. They didn’t have to-​go cups, so on days when they were very late to offer coffee I ended up declining their cup and walking to the nearby Starbucks to supplement my breakfast.
Although they often serve breakfast in three restaurants simultaneously, there can be a wait on busy days, and one will have to fight a crowd at the buffet.
More than one guest asked where I’d found the cereal bowls. They are in a little nook close to floor level.
The wifi didn’t reliably reach my computer when it was placed on the desk, and I found myself placing it on the bathroom counter to establish a connection and then carrying it back to the desk. This problem was made worse by the wifi provider, which was British Telecom. BT’s system requires a browser window to be kept open on their time-​counting page, even though there isn’t a charge for wifi in this hotel. Any time the wifi connection dropped and was re-​established, I had to re-​load this page and push a web button before wifi would work again. I probably did this more than 10 times a day during my stay. And for my laptop, my phone, and my tablet, if I used one or the other to access the internet.
Much more modest hotels these days simply require me to log in with a wifi password, and do not require any web validation after that, not to mention the repetitive web validation I was made to go through. If the hotel were to drop BT as their provider and find a simpler means of wifi service, it would help.
To their credit: Every employee was courteous. It is a great location and has excellent views of the Tower bridge. There are a number of good pubs a short walk across the Tower bridge, and a number of fine restaurants in the area. Even the back side of the hotel has good views of the «St. Katherine’s Docks», a marina with shops and hotels. The breakfast buffet was tasty and plentiful except for their running out of bread one day out of 5. My room was clean, comfortable, and good looking.
I stayed in room 118 and checked out on October 30, 2012 after a 6-​day stay. — Bruce

The hotel is old and dingy, but it was kind of expected when I think of old English charm? The lobby and public areas are actually in much better shape.
I don’t know the boundaries of London but it would be as far as I would want to stay if you’re looking to be near the center. There is a subway, or tube, station nearby. The hotel is right across the Tower Bridge and my room had a full on view of it, so that was pretty cool.
Funny how another review mentioned the fire alarm going off because it happened on one of my nights here as well around 3AM. The chaos lasted just over an hour and they handed out foil blankets. I believe someone was cooking in their room and the smoke set off the alarms.
The breakfast buffet was horrible. The only decent thing was the guy making omelettes. There are a few nice tables with river views.
Visit the Tower of London, walk the Tower Bridge and stroll along the Thames River. You shouldn’t be in your hotel much anyways. We walked back along the river from the London Eye in about 90 minutes, which was a nice way to take in the city.

Worse hotel ever! Would not recommend anyone come here! I would give negative 10 stars if I could.
DIRTY! DIRTY! DIRTY!
Stayed here over a New Years weekend. We arrived New Year’s Eve. Thought we would catch a few hours rest and then head out for the festivities. We checked in and went to our room. OMG! So dirty! There were hairs in the bath and on the bathroom floor. The soap containers were half used. And… it gets better… there were hairs in the bed.
So, we called down to the reception desk. They said they would send someone up to clean the room. They said to come back in about an hour.
My friend had the forethought to mark the sheets with a pen, so we put a dot on each sheet and pillowcase.
When they told us the room was clean, the hairs were gone in the bathroom, but they still had not changed the soap. Then… the worse!!! The sheets had not been changed… only turned over! Soooo GROSS!!!
We called down again and this time sat in the room to supervise their cleaning.
Needless to say, we didn’t get a minute of sleep!
Then after going out for New Year’s Eve more tired than we wanted we got in about 2 am.
At 5 AM the fire alarm went off. Yes, that’s right, the fire alarm. So we all head out into the freezing London weather at 5 am. So much for sleeping in and catching up on our sleep. Turns out it was their kitchen staff burning something.
No word from the hotel. Not an apology for their kitchen… let alone their cleaning staff, nothing. The customer service was awful when we complained. Wrote them with no response.
So, if you want a dirty room, no sleep, horrible cleaning staff, horrible kitchen staff, horrible customer service and a management that does not care, then stay here. If all that sounds completely awful to you… then STAY FAR AWAY!!!

The Tower Hotel is a pretty great hotel with an amazing view of the London Tower Bridge and the River Thames. What I liked the most was the style of the hotel. The lobby was very modern looking, and then we you arrive to your room, you are greeted to a traditional English style room. The rooms were very clean and spacious, but like other hotels, there always seems to be a lack of electric outlets. What I also liked was the area surrounding the hotel and Tower Bridge. St. Katherines’ Dock. There was a nice assortment of cafes and restaurants. Not exactly cheap, but still nice. Now to the cons of this hotel. The people of the front desk here are like lackadaisical zombies. They kind of don’t pay attention to you unless you get their attention yourself. And like all other hotels in Europe, there is NO FREE WI-​FI. I don’t think Europeans understand the concept of free anything.

Die Klimaanlage auf dem Zimmer war im Eimer… schwitzen pur war angesagt! Ließ sich auch nicht reparieren, so dass es die ganze Nacht gebraucht hat um das Zimmer per Fenster herunter zu kühlen. Man hat mir auch kein anderes Zimmer angeboten.
Im kompletten Hotel selbst war es ebenfalls völlig heiß. Beim Frühstück musste also wieder geschwitzt werden… naja, immerhin 1 kg abgenommen.
Ansonsten:
— viel zu teuer
— schicke Hotelbar
— gute Lage
Werde hier aber nicht wieder einchecken.

I stayed here with my husband in June 2010. The rooms are okay, a little small and dated but the location is great and has a Starbucks right downstairs! This place is near the Tower of London and many other restaurants and bars. In the evening, we strolled down the pier overlooking the Thames River, this area is very nice!

went there with my hubby on new year’s eve to watch the fireworks from there, we had a room on the 8^th floor with a very nice view on the tower bridge, the staff were very helpful and nice, and the breakfast was yummy overlooking the harbour, however the building is very old the wallpaper were scratched, the pillows were very uncomfortable, and when we wanted to order food from the 24hrs room service @ 11 pm we were told they ran out of food and only had burgers and pizza which were very bad

Really great location. You are literally yards away from The Tower and the Tower Bridge. deliciouse continental breakfast. Good service. I dont have alot to complain about. Only thing i found a little annoying was how hard it was to exchange money here. It literally took me 30 minutes to trade 100 dollars for whatever the equivilant was in pounds. i had to sign a contract and felt like i was signing my soal away. JUST GIVE ME MY MONEY! it was a little rediculous. Other than that… top notch. I went with a group so i dont really know how much i payed for the room, but whatever it was, it certainly seemed well worth it for the amazing views.

I stayed at this hotel on my last trip to London in 2008. It was nice, had a lovely lobby, with a friendly concierge. The room was spacious in European standards, clean and net. The hallways could have used a little make over; they were dark and a bit old looking. But who spends that much time in the hall ways, unless you’re some skesy pervert waiting to jump out and flash an unsuspecting passer by or something right?
The location is good, your get a great view of Tower Bridge, especially at night, its right off the river. Your just steps from The Tower of London, and there is a Starbucks right behind the hotel for you Americans that need your Starbucks close at hand.
Why not a Higher rating: The surrounding area is a bit dead at night, if you want to get dinner out side the hotel you would have to go a few blocks to find something worth wild. And on weekends you can expect a bit of a wait to be seated for the free continental breakfast. I have places to go and things to see, I don’t want to wait for my breakfast, I want to grab it and be on my way.

Located next to the Tower of London on the banks of the Thames, the Guoman Tower Hotel is the perfect example of English style, service and luxurious accommodations.
We would be arriving in London earlier than planned thanks to what I assume are time traveling aircraft in the Virgin Atlantic fleet. I called the hotel from the plane to inform them of our early arrival and to ask if our room would be ready when we arrived. I was told that they were extremely busy with a very large conference in town (the conference I was there to attend) but that they would do all that they could to get us into our rooms when we arrived.
We took a classic London cab from the airport to the hotel which really set the tone for the trip. If you have never taken a London cab, it is by far the best taxi experience you can enjoy anywhere. (More on that in another review to come.) We arrived at the hotel and were immediately impressed with the sight of the Tower Bridge rising out of the embankment next to the hotel and the Tower of London next door. Our taxi let us out at the main entrance and immediately a top hatted doorman was at our side directing staff to handle our luggage as he escorted us to the front desk.
When we arrived at the front desk and told the receptionist we were there to check in, we were told that there would be no rooms available for several hours. I told the young lady my name and that I had called ahead and she asked me to have a seat in the lounge adjacent to the lobby and that someone would come to see us shortly. I did not know what she meant by that, but my years in the hotel business and traveling around Europe have taught me that if you politely do as your told by the staff, things will generally work in your favor. (Note to all of you uptight selfish assholes who think yelling at the staff will do you any good.)
While waiting I ordered my first coffee drink in London (I am after all a junkie.) and some pastry. My associate ordered some refreshments for herself. We had a seat in the comfortable and stylish lounge to wait for our drinks and do some people watching. Before our drinks were ready, a lovely lady approached us and identified herself as one of the hotel managers. She apologized for the delay, and asked if we would like to follow her to our room. (She even took care of our lounge bill)
On the way to the room we learned that we had been upgraded. We had booked a two room suite. The convention in town had artificially inflated the cost of hotel rooms everywhere, and even though the Tower is one of the more expensive hotels in London, a suite was actually less than any two rooms we could find elsewhere.
The upgraded suite was called the King Edward Suite. It was Spectacular. There was a fully equiped Kithenette built into the beautiful wood cabinetry. The views were panoramic of the Thames River. There was a large glass enclosed conservatory off the main room with a very large balcony overlooking the river. The bedroom was spacious and luxurious and the bathroom was gorgeous.
That is when we realized that there was only one bed. We are good friends, my colleague and I, but not that good. When we mentioned that we needed two beds, the woman assisting us gave us the option of having a bed brought into the main room of our suite or waiting a short while longer for our original room. We opted for staying. The bed they brought in and assembled for us was no rollaway bed. My companion said it was one of the most comfortable beds she had ever slept on and it’s position in the room afforded her a lovely view.
The room was decorated stylishly with warm woods and luxurious fabrics with antique accessories everywhere. I was particularly impressed by a set of apothecary jars with labels like «Morphine» and «Opium»
The Hotel had two main restaurants and the lounge which served both alcohol and coffee drinks.
My favorite of the two restaurants was called the Carvery. It was buffet style with extremely attentive table service. In the evening they featured hand carved traditional English roasts of beef, lamb, pork and turkey along with a seemingly endless variety of delicious sides. During Breakfast they had a traditional European/​English buffet. There were the typical options you would expect in London, bacon, sausages, beans, tomatoes, eggs done several ways, pastries, cereals, and one of my favorite things of all time, FRIED TOAST!!! (Paula D, this is where I had it)
Everything I experienced at the Tower Hotel was top level from the service to the rooms to the food to the prices. Yes it is expensive, but well worth the cost in my opinion and the prices were well advertised so there was no surprise on my part.
I don’t know why my fellow Unilocalers had different experiences. All i can say is that I definitely recommend the Guoman Tower Hotel for a special treat next time you are in London.

Wow, was für ein Hotel! Nach langer Zeit hatte ich mal wieder die Möglichkeit die britische Hauptstadt zu besuchen. Da ich so meine Erfahrungen mit 3-​Sterne-​Hotels in London habe (beim letzten Mal bestand das Zimmer aus zwei Feldbetten, einer Dusche und Ausblick auf eine Ziegelmauer. Die Toilette befand sich eine Etage tiefer und zwei Gänge weiter. Mitten in der Nacht traf man sich dort zum Klönen mit Anderen.), sollte das Zimmer, vorallem das Bett einen anderen Standard haben. (Schließlich ist man ja nicht mehr die Jüngste!) Also rasch im Internet Hotelpreise verglichen. (Solllte man wirklich machen, denn oft sind die Unterschiede zwischen 3 und 4-​Sterne-​Hotels sehr gering.)Als ich dann noch feststellte, dass dieses Hotel ins Budget passte, ging ein lang gehegter Wunsch in Erfüllung. Denn als bekennende Great Britain-​Süchtige wollte ich schon seit der EM 1996, als die ersten Bilder von diesem Hotel über die Mattscheibe flimmerten (damals das Hotel der Deutschen Fußball Nationalmanschaft), übernachten. Also kurz entschlossen wurden Flüge und Hotel gebucht. Nachdem wir mit einer Stunde Verspätung (Heathrow war mal wieder total überlastet. Frage mich, wie den Ansturm 2012 zu Olympia schaffen wollen?) im Hotel ankamen, meinte der freundliche Mann an der Rezeption: Unser Zimmer wäre noch nicht fertig, da eine Reisegruppe zu spät ausgecheckt wäre. Wir könnten selbstverständlich auf Kosten des Hauses so lange in Restaurant setzten oder er könne uns für den kompletten Aufenthalt für einen Aufpreis von 20,00EUR ein Zimmer mit direkten Blick auf die Tower-​Bridge überlassen. Ehe meine bessere Hälfte, der zum erstenmal auf der Insel war, etwas dazu sagen konnte, hatte ich dem Ganzen schon zu gestimmt.
Anschließend ab in den 10. Stock und für britische Verhältnisse ein sehr großes Zimmer mit einem absolut bequemen King-​Size-​Bett und selbst vom Bett aus einen fantastischen Blick auf die Klapp-​Brücke (O-​Ton meines Mannes). Besonders toll sah sie nachts mit der Beleuchtung aus. Auch der 24 Stundenservice in diesem Hotel war super, denn als ich spät aus einer Theatervorstellung ins Hotel zurück kam und den gelungenen Abend mit einem Glas Rotwein ausklingen lassen wollte, wurde es mir prompt gebracht und dabei waren noch ein paar Kekse. Für uns waren die Tage in diesem Hotel absolut perfekt. Das Persnal war zu jeder Zeit freundlich und hilfsbereit und auch die Zimmer waren sehr sauber.
Sicher hier und da könnte eine Leiste neu angebracht werden, eine Fliese im Bad war gesprungen, oder der Teppich in den Gängen hatte Flecken. Mich hat es nicht gestört und wer etwas finden will, der findet auch etwas. Da ich in diesem Land auch schon eine 4-​wöchige Tour durch Jugendherbergen gemacht habe, bin ich ganz andere Dinge gewohnt.
Der nächste Trip in dieses Hotel ist in Planung, dann aber nicht gerade wenn in London die Temperaturen unter null liegen.