Holiday Inn Mayfair
- November 13, 2004
- Rated 4 of 5 by
Kookaburra from Sydney, undefined, Australia
Brilliant position, booked via the Internet for much more competitive rates. At the time, we paid 160 GBP per room and had to take two rooms to accommodate the five of us. This was nearly half the price quoted by similar establishments in the tour brochures, where they wanted a per-person rate, not a per-room rate. Price was even better when we arrived and found where it was positioned. The street the motel was positioned on led straight down to the Ritz Hotel, and we were only one block from the Ritz and Green Park, right in the centre of Mayfair. Not even a five-minute walk to the nearest bus routes, Underground, and central to major attractions. The rooms were nicely appointed, and the staff was wonderful. Considering our flight arrived at 11pm and we arrived at midnight, the staff were extremely helpful and courteous. Hotel was tastefully decorated with heavy chintzes and Regency stripes and looked like it had been receiving people up from the country for their London visits since the turn of the century. Everything was clean and immaculately presented. Nice restaurant and bar area, which we didn’t get to use due to lack of time, but it always seemed to be popular and from overheard conversations in the elevator, had a lot of return clientele. Doormen in appropriate London dress -- topcoats and polished buttons.
From journal London in September