Citadines Apart'hotel Holborn-Covent Garden London

It was within a 10 minute walk to Shaftesbury avenue, Covent Garden & Leicester Square as well as near the Royal Courts of Justice and Temple Church. Perfect central location. It’s also straight across the road from Holborn tube station for those who prefer to catch the tube. It was a swanky hotel, very clean and reasonably friendly staff, they didn’t go out of their way though, the breakfast is also an extra £12 each which is a good price for London but as we paid almost £200 for one night I would have expected breakfast to be in the price. Normally hotel staff suggest alternatives or at least tell you when breakfast is but they didn’t bother. The room was large and quite we the Bathroom was good, there was hand soap/ body wash but no shower gel so take your own and only 2 medium size towels and 2 small ones.

Although the room has a small kitchen there was only one small sachet of coffee and 2 small hotel sized UHT milk for 2 people for 24 hours... my guess is this is because there is free coffee 24/7 in reception which is great if you don’t mind going to reception in your pyjamas!!! There is also free water taps in reception too, great but the same issue! There’s a safe in the wardrobe with the instructions inside the door, the safe is in the top shelf which is way over 6ft in height and I am very short so had to stand on a chair to reach.. On our stay there was a notice in the lift that there was going to be sniffer dogs checking the rooms, it said on the notice that a do not disturb sign would not be valid during this time. The lift was the only place we saw this sign, the reception staff did not inform us. As we stayed on the first floor we could have taken the stairs and missed this. My thoughts are if someone had a medical issue (I.e diabetes) and we’re using insulin at this time it would have been very awkward and uncomfortable for them, with this in mind the staff should have pointed out the fact that sniffer dogs work in the area. I also found that although it was a nice hotel with a fairly comfy bed it was very over priced, £200 is a lot of money for one night and I would have thought a few little extra touches would have been in place for that price or at least included breakfast. All in all I would put our stay on a level par with a premier inn experience. Good but not fantastic

The location is very convenient.

They need some work in the bathroom. And replace curtains. Need to have information regarding the microwave.