If you are travelling as a couple, staying in a double room, please ignore this review and move on to the high scoring ones. If you intend to book a single room, as I did, please read on:
After reading other reviews of this hotel, I was looking forward to a pleasant 2 night stay, having booked a single room at about £130/night. I was rather disappointed on arrival to find that my room was very small, being located in the roof space on the top floor with a tiny bed and restricted headroom under the pitch of the roof. This would not have been so bad, had it not been for the temperature.
I arrived on a lovely sunny day, with the consequence that the temperature in the room was well over 30C. The room had no air conditioning, and there was no way of opening the window (which was a Velux type window set into the roof). The only way of getting any air at all into the room was through a small and completely ineffective vent above the window. This meant that the room was much too hot to sleep properly, a situation not helped by the world’s smallest bed. Things took a turn for the worst in the early hours of the next morning with heavy rain beating noisily down on the angled window. All in all, I managed only a few hours of fitful sleep on the first night.
When I returned to the hotel on the second evening, I hoped that the room would be much cooler, the weather having been cold and wet all day. No such luck, I’m afraid. My room was still incredibly warm, not helped by the fact that the cleaner had closed the window vent when cleaning the room. Again, the room was much too hot to allow a good night’s sleep, so I got back home feeling exhausted rather than refreshed.
Yes, the hotel was very clean. Yes, it was a modern design with a pleasant bar and lounge area. Yes, the free high speed internet was very good. Yes, the staff were friendly. Yes, the hotel was only around 15 minutes walk into the centre of Lund. If I had visited the hotel during a cold week in January and been given the same room, I might have given it a good review, but the primary purpose of a hotel is sleep, and I got precious little of it.
Overall, a big disappointment I’m afraid.
- First Hotel Lund
