Our family stayed here for three nights starting on June 14th, 2006. We stayed in a Junior Suite. The staff were extremely nice and helpful. We especially appreciated Ana's great help and kindness. The room was very nice and large with a very good air conditioning. The windows of the room looked out toward Portobello road in Notting Hill. This was our first trip to London and based upon our research, I think this is an excellent choice of a place to stay in London. It is quiet and still in a great location with easy access to transportation to any part of London. The Notting Hill Gate tube is just a short walk away as well as bus stops that take you anywhere in London. The famous market in Notting Hill was on Saturday is just out your back door steps, a short walk away and is lots of fun. There are many good restaurants in the area that the hotel will help you locate.

I would recommend this hotel to anyone staying in London. Everything to me was just great!

I am having to make myself write this honest review as I have never stayed at such a friendly and welcoming hotel. The staff would do anything for you and were kind, informative and always available.

The hotel looks impressive from the outside but when I entered the door it just wasn't what I was expecting for £185 a night. Now I do realise that this hotel has recently been taken over but to me, the public areas just screamed B&B. There was a smell of stale smoke and the reception area is a hatch to the side of the hallway. This hotel has very limited public space. There is a small breakfast/bar room to the rear of the hotel but the 'reception area' is the size of your average hallway with nowhere to sit.

The stairway and landings to the rooms do have some nice decretive touches but the large unattractive B&B style fire doors do nothing for the interior.

When I entered our room, I have to say I was impressed. The room was large, beautifully furnished with a gigantic bed and a huge plasma TV. The en-suite was larger than your standard hotel bathroom and this size of room in London is rare.

But the negatives on the room and the hotel in general were annoying. This hotel has been 'glossed'. Apparently, the hotel has only been The Lennox for six months and it looks like the refurb was done in a huge hurry. There is an awful lot of chipped wood work throughout the hotel. The gloss work to windows and doors is just tired. The bath fixtures and fittings don't appear to have been refitted so our bathroom had a lot of black grime in the tiles also, our bath tap was broken with the broken piece sitting next to the bath waiting on a repair. The dust in the bathroom was shocking and the first white towel I grabbed had a faded make-up stain across it.

Also I should point out that if you have seen the film Notting Hill, this isn't in one of those quaint streets. The hotel actually looks over a large block of flats.

Enough said. I guess this review has more to do with the £185 a night we paid and the glossiness of their website which isn't as glossy in real life.

I just didn't quiet get this hotel although the people were fabulous.

Next time we will stay at our favourite, The Mandeville, just off Oxford Street, which is half the price and lives up to its website (and it is terribly glossy!).

The Lennox is a lovely, immaculate hotel on a serene street just down the block from the busy intersection Notting Hill Gate. The charming staff was friendly and helpful without being obtrusive. We had a standard double room, and it was quite large and well equipped, and elegantly furnished (it was the Pembridge Room, facing the street but very quiet). Wonderful bed and bath linens. I was travelling with my adult daughter and we were very comfortable sharing a twin/king sized bed, with much room to spare. Breakfast served in our room was promptly delivered and (though no bargain) it was full of healthy selections and lovely fresh fruit. The cleaning staff was efficient and thorough.
There are some excellent restaurants within a short walk of the hotel, plus the wildly bustling Portobello Market and a great art house cinema. We were very pleased and would stay there again in a nanosecond.

The Lennox is just around the corner from the Notting Hill Gate tub station--a hustle, bustle area full of people--yet the hotel is an oasis of quirky charm and relaxation.

The Main House over on Colville Road recommended and referred us to the Lennox and we enjoyed the Lennox tremendously! The hotel has about 20 rooms, and we had one in the back on the main floor. Dubbed "the Windsor", it was large, with a spacious bathroom and all the comforts of home--flat screen plasma TV, CD player (with Vivaldi loaded), double paned windows that opened and huge bath sheets. Despite the hopping location, and street level room, the hotel and our room was wonderfully quiet.

There is a breakfast that I never got up for, and a real honor bar/salon area. The internet access computer is in the hallway. That was only a problem when I was Skype-ing to the US one evening and my voice reverberated down the hall. Wireless was available in the salon so I moved there with my laptop.

From the moment we arrived we liked the Lennox and the people working there. We checked it very late (about 2am) and Robert greeted us, got us all the potato chips we could eat and made us drinks. It had been a really long day. We all chatted for another hour before my partner and I, now revived, collapsed. Day staff helpfully stored bags, found us take away recommendations, phone help--all the things a large hotel would do without the largeness.

We thought it a good value at about 175 pounds/night for the Exec. sized room. We will definitely go there again--the hotel and the neighborhood are great!