LSE Passfield Hall

We arrived at Passfield Hall after a 10 minutes walk from St. Pancras Station (we arrived in the UK through the Eurostar). The staff at the office was nice and friendly; they gave us all the info we needed to know and answered all our questions.

Next came what we found the must amusing adventure of our stay: finding our room! Passfield Hall consists of a couple of buildings accessible through an inner yard. To get through the inner yard, you have to go downstairs, go through a couple of doors, go through a couple of hallways, etc... :) Needless to say, it took us 15 minutes to find our room!! But it wasn't a big deal and we found the whole thing quite funny.

Being a student residence, the rooms are absolutely HUGE (considering that I usually stay in youth hostels). Our twin room had 2 single beds, 2 desks, and 2 wardrobes. The toilets/showers were located outside the room. All were nice & clean.

The breakfast included is also huge. They serve (almost) full english breakfast. A definite plus compared to traditional continental breakfasts in youth hostels.

Passfield Hall is well located. It is close to the British Museum & St. Pancras/Kings Cross train stations. Also, Euston & Euston Square tube stations are close by.

All in all, a great place for people travelling on low budget at a relatively affordable price (for London!!).

Finding a reasonably priced hostel in London is easy enough, but finding one that isn't a flea bitten crap hole with rooms by the hour is another challenge entirely.

Search over. This place makes impromptu trips to London now affordable to the mere mortal. I came here as a cheap base for a study weekend, I was so impressed I am now bringing my young daughter to stay to take her around London before school goes back. There are not many £45 per night rooms in central London you would take a 4 year old to, but Passfield Hall is pretty good.

This place is sort of the MUJI of hostels/hotels, simple, to the point and does the job with more than a little panache.

Passfield hall was a really great place and I would definitely stay there again. For the first two nights, I stayed at Carr-Saunders hall and Passfield is worth the extra money. The bathrooms were very nice - clean and private. I had a twin room and it was big and nice, across the hall from the shared bathroom. The breakfast was good. I would like to let everyone know that they do not let visitors use the computer room as stated in earlier reviews. I don't know if you can get internet access from your own computer since I did not have mine with me. It is a short walk to the British Museum and tube/bus stops. I preferred taking the buses to get around. The students and other visitors were nice.