Americana Hotel

Avoid at all costs

The walk from tube is too far and very intimidating at night. The hotel itself is the worse I have ever stayed on and beleive me I have stayed in some dives. We asked for a twin room and was given a double bedded room instead and told that there was going to be a twin available for the last night of our stay and basically to like it or lump it. The room was so small that we has to put our luggage on the bed in order to open the window and the shower room so small that I had to squeeze past the hand basin to get into the shower so if you are fat you have no chance. The room looked dirty, and the carpet in the room and throughout the "hotel" was filthy. As there is no airconditioning and this was a very hot weekend I tried to open the window which then let in the noise which did not let up at all. So I and my daughter spent 2 nights in a very hot very noisy room to then go down to a very basic but ok breakfast - we knew it was going to be continental.

When we were given our key to the new room for our last night I did not hold out much hope but imagine my surprise at finding the twin room was a little bigger and the shower room much bigger. having said this it still had a filthy carpet and was also oven like. I decided once again to open the window and it tilted forward and came out of the frame onto the bed leaving a very dangerous low silled gap, so not child frirndly to say the least. I managed to replace this and slide it up but ended up closing this as there was the danger of falling out.

the towels are tiny there is a fan in the room which we left on all day when we were out but did not make a difference to the heat.

Now the plus side the staff with the exeption of one person on our first night are friendly. the wi-fi is free and the beds are clean. Would I pay £144 to stay in a dirty, noisy oven - no. would I recommend the Americana Hotel to you - no you would be better sleeping in the street. Would I recommend this to guests with children definately not it is too dangerous. (I will upload the pictures soon)

Unique Quality: The staff are nice and it is only 2 stops on the tube to the westend.