Ibis London Earl's Court

Wir waren 2 Tage im Ibis Earls Court. und ich war positiv überrascht. Die Zimmer waren (für Londoner Verhältnisse) groß und hatten (entgegen dem meines Wissens nach üblichen Standard für Ibis-Hotels) Klimaanlage, schallisoierte Fenster und einen Schrank mit Türen. Leider war ein wenig Schimmel an der Badewanne gewesen und es gab nur 1 Handtuch pro Person. Die Bushaltestelle ist direkt vor der Türe, zu U-Bahn sind es ca.400 m. Zum Frühstück kann ich nichts weiter sagen, da wir nicht im Hotel gegessen haben.

We stayed here for 2 nights, 1 before and 1 after our Trafalgar tour. It was good to check in and have someone from Trafalgar there to give us our itinerary and answer our questions.

Prior to arriving at the Ibis we had spent 5 nights at The Strand Palace Hotel where you walked out the door and had an abundance of shops, cafes and restaurants within a very short walk. This was not the case here. We went for a walk and ended up in the middle of Hammersmith at sundown, that was a little scary. We ended up just having dinner at the hotel restaurant, it was good, nothing to rave about. I wanted a cocktail but they only seemed to have vodka, they'd never heard of Midori.

We caught the underground from the Strand to Earls Court station, and then asked a rail employee for directions to the hotel, he told us to get back on the train and go to West Brompton station and that we'd see the hotel when we got on the street, sure enough we did.

Why not Ibis West Brompton then?

Our room was nice, Ibis standard, we had a lovely view over a large portion of London and a beautiful old school (Being a teacher that was interesting).

Breakfast was ok, I missed having a hot breakfast though.

On our second stay after our tour we went out for dinner and this time turned left instead of right and ended up near Kensington I think. We walked for about 15 minutes and found some nice restaurants. The next day we walked to Harrods and found some great places on our walk, it took about 45 minutes as we kept stopping to look at things.

Both check in and out were quick and easy, they let people store things at the hotel for the 2.5 weeks we were on tour.

Reasonably priced internet access, except when you want to connect your own lap top.

As a tourist I preferred the other hotel we stayed at in London as its location allowed us to have thousands of restaurants and attractions on our doorstep.

I might stay here again if I went back to London but could see the price of getting around to everything from the hotel a deterrent.