The Marylebone Hotel

This hotel is in a great location for shopping and theatre land. The public areas and breakfast are excellent and the staff were very polite and helpful.

I have to say though that the rooms are the tiniest I have stayed in in London. It literally was not possible for two people to move around the bed or bathroom without having to pin one'self against the wall. I would say our "superior" room was a single room with a double bed in it . All very clean and nicely furbished though

This newly renovated property has a lot to recommend: great location, clean rooms, delicious breakfast, modern decor. The concierge services however were lacking. I called in advance to ask about restaurants for dinner - the recommendations were a restaurant that was CLOSED DOWN, the hotel restaurant (we went - it was deserted). Our taxi for the airport was incorrectly ordered. They don't have local maps handy at the front desk, and so the directions are pointed out on a big city map that doesn't show the small details.

So - I still say "yes, go", just beware of any advice or reservations made by the concierge.

I don't know if you are the same manager that used to be around in the mid '90s, but when I was in the hotel there was a very nice door man that would extend the largest smile you have ever seen to customers on their way in. It reminds me of how the little things can cover other issues. No place is perfect, but I used to enjoy just sitting and relaxing with tea or a drink in the lounge downstairs and the staff would usually have the tele on and I would catch a late movie or whatever. OF course Welbeck Street is full of history and if you dig hard you will find out that Paul McCartney would hang out with Jane Asher just around the corner on Wimple Street at her parents house and wrote a song or two there. Back to the Clifton Ford: that is how it used to be, and I have to be honest and say that I am not in to modern decor, so if you decide to go back to old "English" style you will not disappoint me as so many hotels that looked so great many years ago, (a few department stores as well; Harrods for example) look no better than a cored out shopping mall or Disco in Essex--The Cumberland Hotel is another example, so things are not what they used to be, the refurb does not suit me but that said, the staff were and are ever friendly.