Comfort Inn Vauxhall

Very nice hotel, small, with very few staff but very clean and comfortable. Location wise, it is not to far from the underground (5 - 10 minutes walk), Only negative thing is that the walls between rooms are very thin and sometimes you can hear what your neighbours are talking about.

Booked via laterooms.com - and on arrival the hotel reception said they had no knowledge of my reservation. All I can say is beware using laterooms.com! Hotel did have a spare room available and honoured the price, so well done to them. Just glad I did not arrive late at night on a busy day.

Hotel is clearly a refurbished - what, office block or something - but is clean, no nonsense and OK for a short stay. The room (for four) was not too bad in terms of size, for a central London hotel. Bathroom is a prefabricated "pod", not unlike the sort of thing you get in the cabin of a ship. It's very small but perfectly functional.

Our TV had about six channels, all completely fuzzy and virtually unwatchable without squinting hard.

Hotel is about a ten minute walk from Vauxhall tube station. The area is safe enough but completely devoid of charm. You are however only minutes away, especially by tube, of all the sights. There are a few local shops, where you can get groceries, newspapers etc. A pub faces the hotel across the road, but from the outside I'm not sure it is one I would choose to frequent.

Our room was on the ground floor, and we did not hear a sound from within the hotel itself. But it did face onto the busy South Lambeth Road and as others have said there is traffic noise all night. I was expecting it to be worse, but we got a reasonable night's sleep. Had to check out at 6am, so did not sample breakfast. Hotel got us a cab without any problem.

Cheap, not particularly cheerful, but if you are desperate or short of funds, it will do.