Regency Guest House

Here is a list of reasons why we had a terrible experience at this hotel: - IMPOSSIBLE TO LOCK DOOR IN SHARED BATHROOM. We stayed in a room with a shared bathroom. This bathroom has a folding door which cannot be locked. The door does have a latch which can be closed. However, even if the door is latched, one push from the outside is enough to slam it open. To make matters worse the bathroom is located in a passageway which people use to get to the kitchen or their own rooms. As a consequence people kept trying to open the bathroom door and get in while one of us was using it. This fact alone made it virtually impossible to use the bathroom - TOILET FLUSH NOT WORKING IN SHARED BATHROOM. On top of this, the flushing mechanism was not working properly. Flushing the toilet was hard and required a few attempts. As a consequence, the guests we shared the bathroom with on our second night, kept walking away leaving their bathroom deeds behind. Instead, they would leave the ventilator on, which is fairly loud and kept us up most of the time. - THE NOISE. Our room was on the ground floor with the window looking out on the street. We were kept awake until late by the people leaving the neighboring restaurants/pubs. Then at 5 a.m. or so we were woken up again by other hotel guests who congregated right below our window to wait for their cabs, as the hotel does not have a lobby. - THE BREAKFAST CHAOS. The breakfast room is absolutely tiny and insufficient for the number of guests that can stay at this place. There isn't even enough space to move around. Every time you would like to go to the buffet, because you forgot a spoon or would like another round of toast, you have to ask other guests to leave their seat and let you through. And people do get cranky when you disturb their breakfast. And if you are driving, consider that parking at the local public car park is as expensive as in Central London. I wonder how this hotel managed to get a rating of 7.