Melbourne House

Room #3 is on the first floor and very clean. There is a good sized closet for clothes, but no room for our 2 large suitcases that were full (in preparation for our cruise). The shower has very hot water and is nice & forceful! The room is quiet, except for occasional heavy foot steps in the room above. Breakfast includes good choices of breads/toast, cheese, meats, cold ceral, yogart, fruit, coffee or tea. The #24 Bus takes you to Victoria Station for connections to other bus lines and the Tube. Some nice, small resturants within walking distance. The current desk staff get an "A" for effort & try to be helpful, but are not familar with the area.

The "single" rooms are SO ridiculously tiny and even worse you can hear thru the wall like it wasn't even there. It does not have a private toilet/shower but I already knew this. It does have a sink in the room. It seems as though they took a small room and installed a temporary wall to split it in half. I could hear every move the person in the other room made including the 2 am bathroom break and the extensive 3 am phone call. Earplugs helped a little but not enough. The other rooms maybe be much better but I can only evaluate the room I had...

On the plus side it was very clean which is THE most important thing to me. Breakfast was included. Price, for London, was good (but still too high for this minuscule room) at 40.50 GBP ($65)-discounted for internet reservation and for paying cash. Location was great for access to Victoria Station. Staff were very pleasant.

We found our room and bathroom to be very clean. The owner/ staff were exceptionally friendly and helpful. The breakfast was simple with not much variety but adequate. The location is good, safe and very close to Pimlico Tube. One downside was not being able to get the wireless connection in the room (6th floor). My husband had to go down to the lobby to get on line. Otherwise we were very pleased. We had a very good stay and will definitely return. A special thanks to the owner for his help in trying to locate a lost jacket. He went out of his way to help and made numerous calls for us.