Blue Bells Hotel

Hotel is handy for Notting Hill Gate tube being only a 5 minute walk away. The site of the hotel is in a quiet and lovely neighbourhood but is also only a 10 minute walk from Queensway which has lots of pubs and places to eat. Reception staff were helpful and the continental breakfast was fine. The fixtures and fittings of the hotel however are dated and extremely basic. It feels like walking into a 1930s museum. The view from my room was a brick wall about 6 feet away from the window. The room was very warm and the only viable means of ventilation was to wedge the sash window open with the dustbin. Noise from the building, other rooms and trains was audible well into the night. For want of a better word some of the furniture in the room was manky. The desk chair was frankly embarrassing. It was very old and looked like it had been mauled by a tiger. I can’t understand why a hotelier with any integrity would think it was acceptable to furnish a room with such an item. The breakfast room wasn’t large enough however fortunately the garden area had two small tables in it to use and fortunately the weather just happened to be okay to sit outside. In short this hotel is cheap and for a lone traveler who wants a very basic one nights stay it is okay for the price. But personally from my experience I wouldn’t take my family here or stay for more than one night.