Originally booked at the Acropolis and was called to say that it was over booked and agreed to move to their sister hotel. The booking was for the Primal Scream gig at Olympia (fantastic!) and the room was booked for 4 guys to share - all single beds and with EN-SUITE facilities. On arrival we were given keys to the room and front door of the Plaza Hotel next door to the Rex (sign on the door of the Plaza sends you to the Rex to check in.) The room for 2 nights (4 sharing) was £200.00 so not over the top on a four way split, but if this was a family room - 2 adults + kids £100.00 per night would have been daylight robbery for a room that was well below any standard for any hotel. On check in, we were asked to pay by cash as the card machine was out of action - as it turns out the reception man/owner? said that the previous ownership of the hotel(s) had gone into administration hence the card machine wasn't available to pay. They also offered to settle by Paypal - which I opted for on MY OWN LAPTOP - fortunate that I had a paypal account and laptop with me. Under no circumstances should anyone use a hotels computer to do a payment - key logging or recording of your details is a possibilty.

THE ROOM - have a look at the pictures - they're worth a thousand words!!!!
Remember we had booked for four single beds with en-suite - what we got was a room with a double and two singles one of which had a shower cubicle beside it - no roof so any steam would have gotten into the room Thats if any of the four blokes actually wanted to shower in a cubicle with no privacy. (We're shy at heart :) The toilet and shower were shared with the other two rooms on the same floor and anybody that wanted to use it as they passed by! The decor would have made Rigsby's Rising Damp B&B look like the Hilton - old worn, very rough.

Communal shower was antiquated, produced lukewarm water and get there first before the other two bedrooms as you will have no access to a toilet until they're finished!

Breakfast (which is complimentary) consisted of fried or scrambled eggs, toast, beans, cereal and coffee/tea. But again get down early, the five table room also serves for at least another two hotels in the same block - queues were outside the room the whole time as it only served for 1.5 hours (7.30-9.00) ok if it was serving just it's own residents, but insufficient .

I could go on for another two pages, but the hotel isn't worth it, unless you're into down grading below any reasonable standard that you can think of.

I stayed here on a college trip and it was a very bad experience. The rooms are always cold as the radiators never turned on even though the radiators in the corridor worked. The furniture is mismatched and there is not an en-suite there is a communal toilet in the corridor and a tiny little cupboard for a shower in in your room. The location was okay but it was obviously in a rough area as there was police cars going up and down the street every 5 minutes and as you are on the main road you can hear them all the time. The rooms were a very low standard and not somewhere you would want to sleep. There was mattresses and chairs blocking the fire exit on the basement floor where I stayed. The service was not very good as the staff never spoke to you and I did not go down for breakfast but at 5am every morning I was awoken by the kitchen staff making breakfast even though they only offered you cereal and eggs. For the 2 nights i stayed i did not get any sleep as the rooms were so cold I had to wear a scarf and jumper for bed. The value for money is not very good and i would not stay there again.

Not a nice hotel: fridge was full of rotting old food when we arrived; asked for an en suite and got charged for one, even though toilet was down the hall; furniture was like cardboard and falling apart. Not worth the prices they charge.

We got a very warm welcom, in an extremly varm "reseption". As it turned out, when we discovered the standards of the rooms, we checked out - and payed for one night. The hotel had a standard far FAR beneath a norwegian standard. And we are not talking about a high class standard. A showercabinet beside the bed, on a flossy carpet. Yak!