Best Western Greater London Hotel

Attention: the place you will be located might not be where they advertised. There is a high chance they direct you to a dirty smelly apartment two streets away with dirty bed shits!!! Details: I travel for work very frequently and have stayed in many hotels in the past. I have never gave such a bad review and feedback to any hotel before but I have to do so now because what they did seems like fraud to me. I had a reservation for one night by them with advance payment. I arrived there at 20:00. A guy at the reception who was speaking Russian with the phone, told me sorry, we was not sure you will come or not and gave your room to someone else!!! And continued: but we have another place nearby which we will locate you!!!!! And it is while I had already paid for the room! And what made me very annoyed was that the guy said me we wrote you a message via trip.com three times to inform it and he was lying as I never received any message (trip.com can check it). And on the way he lied again and said you room had some maintenance issue and window has been brocken!!! (Very funny that they have anticipated this and reserved a full apartment for that). The guy said me the place is very near and the same room style (which was not true at all) but asked me before to give him my credit card and he charged it 100 pounds and said it is only security deposit and forced me to approve it via pin (which I have never experienced also before). I had no chance than accepting it. After all these, he brought me to a place which was roughly 5min on foot away and in a neighbouring street which looked not so beatiful (see photos attached). It was an old dirty and smelly apartment with many locals leaving there actually and one big sign of Big Western on that and two other next buildings which means they actually use it very often like this. I had no other choice and accepted to stay there although it looked really bad (see photos). Then and as the room really didn‘t seem clean at all, I decided to check carefully the bed shits and found that the other side of all of them (pillow, blanket and bed) which was not visible by first look, had several staints and hair pieces on them and was quite dirty and not washed (I took a video of them). They only had flipped them down to hide the unclean part. I asked the reception of that building to come and see and replace the bed shits with clean ones. The guy went back and came back after 15 minutes and apologised for not having clean shits and suggested that we go to a new room. In the new room and in from of him, I checked the other side of pillow and blankets again and they also were dirty and the guy saw it but had no solution. The only option I had was to sleep on a small bed which was 90cm width and not as dirty as the double ones. The next day and after all these, I was hoping that I at least can have a good breakfast (although I had to go for it to the initial building which was 5 min away) but the reception said sorry you have no breakfast in your reservation!!!! It made me really mad and also took 5 minutes until the guy could find it. The breakfast itself was very limited (only a small bench seen in attached photo) and only British style but Islamic version (Turkey instead of bakon). Drinks were not juce but those cheap ones you make with powder and water mixing. And what made me much more unhappy was that there was no fresh coffee but instead, only hot water and packs of quick mix powder coffee which had a very bad quality and taste (at least it could be a Nescafe gold). Now I have the feeling that I have been cheated to stay in a very bad apartment and pay hotel price…

I left my charger adapter, and it mysteriously disappeared after I calked them about it. I am 100% certain that I left it plugged into the socket near the bedside table. The receptionist, whose name sounded like Basham, was fine with me leaving this review, as if one of them had been expecting it and kept the adapter.

Welcoming staff and rooms was nice tidy

Everything was very good. Breakfast offers a lot of coice - except warm breakfast is only on Weekends. On the Trip site the check in time is incorrect (ov voucher it says after 12, but it is after 14) - despite us coming too early, they gave us the room and made coffee for free. The hotel is locked over night and the staff is really friendly. We were in the hotel trought the hottest days in history but they prepared a ventilator - because they don't have AC (normally).