Name: La Suite West Hotel
Address: 41-51 Inverness Terrace, London, London, London, W23JN, United Kingdom
Rating: 8

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This hotel is one of London’s greatest new discoveries being in a great location but yet having a boutique feeling. The modern interior contrasting with the traditional exterior gives it a very cool twist. The staff were very friendly accommodating and having mentioned in my booking that it was my birthday they put a birthday cake in the room waiting for me. Even though the rooms weren’t. huge they were decorated very modern and comfortable and the shower was very big. They have a blackout blind which is good if you want to get a good nights sleep in total darkness. And also a kitchenette in the room that was covered with a screen so it all looks clean and nice without too cluttered. I will deafly stay here again and highly recommend it to anyone even know I stayed in the winter I think this will be fantastic in the summer as it has outdoor seating. The breakfast was very convenient and easy and laid out very nicely. A+

West London best hotel secret!

I find the hotel great. The location (Kensington Garden/Hyde Park) is perfect for a walk or run in the park and two Underground stations around the block (Bayswater, Queens Way) make it ideal to explore London. The staff is extremely firendly and helpful. The rooms are a bit dark and in need for some paint jobs but overall everything is very clean. The atmosphere is really neat!!

Love this hotel

The West End of London is full of hotels that look good in the photos but disappoint in real life.  Having commuted to London from a remote city and regularly stayed in hotels there for several years I have experienced the superb to the truly dreadful, but all were booked with the same expectation of getting what you pay for.  This hotel delivers and is a gem amongst many second-rate hotels that abound in West London.  It is well-located for the tourist visitor, has access to two tube stations within five minutes, as well as royal parks and other tourist sites.
The rooms are boutique style, not expensively furnished, but comfortable, easy on the eye and spotlessly clean.  I had a terrace room with an external door to the front terrace where there are picnic tables. 
You get a solid, comfortable hotel for a reasonable value, and the staff really are excellent with standards clearly set and delivered.  I was impressed with all of them.

West End Gem

I have a car when I'm London so the fact that I can park in the street right in front of the hotel at night for free, is very convinient. The staff regognize me and treat me like a VIP client, they are all very friendly and proffesional. I typically get a room upgrade. I love the decor , however the interior is getting a bit worn. I hate big hotels, so the small size is cozy and makes it feel like a refuge from the hussle and bussle of the busy city. I'll keep coming back indefinately!

I've stayed there about 50 times over the last 7 or 8 years, so it's my London Headquarters.

Stayed for 2 nights. Great location, Rooms & Ambience. Views from the hotel were great & extremely good location for eating places( esp. Indian)  just a street away. Would highly recommend this hotel for personal/official visits. Close to Hyde Park & London Underground. Very Courteous staff.

Wonderful !

In London it can be hard to find a very good hotel and this is one of them. 
Off the high street which is full of good restaurants it’s easy to find.  You can walk to Kensington Palace and Harrods. 
The junior suite was beautiful with a large bathroom and excellent facilities.  Very good hotel restaurant but most of all the lovely minimalist design. 
The staff are so helpful and knowledgeable they made our stay.  I promise you this hotel is worth staying in when you visit London.  It has two tube stations and within walking distance of central London. 

Excellent hotel

This was the last of 3 hotels I booked while visiting England and France and was excited to find that it was less cramped and had a big bathroom with a soaking tub. Also had a fridge and wine glasses to be able to enjoy some wine back in your room after a long day of exploring. Location was perfect as I got to explore Notting Hill and Hyde Park but also was close to the Underground. Didn’t eat at the restaurant so cannot comment on that but the staff was friendly. I would return.

Best hotel of my European vacation 

It's fair to start this review by saying I didn't originally book this hotel so my opinions and usual laissez-faire attitude may have been impacted somewhat by the late afternoon cancellation of my existing booking - having just had a long day at a conference in the middle of London and 150 miles from home. 

I didn't help myself either because I'd planned to walk to my original hotel so in a fit of pique I decided to martyr myself and walk to the new one. I shouldn't have. Especially not when it required walking an extra mile and a half, including a significant streych through Hyde Park after dark - and getting effectively locked in...

I also ended up having to be moved to a different room due to bad smells so it wasn't the best setting, but at least I get to review a superior double (lots of floor space including a sofa) and a junior suite (not so much space at all but a bigger bathroom and separate sitting area). I say bathroom... Neither bathroom actually had a bath in it!

The above in mind, I'm pretty pragmatic so here's my review. Make of it what you will:

Location isn't bad. A hundred yards or so from Hyde Park, on the doorstep of Bayswater tube station and spitting distance from Queensland, it's next to many bars and pubs, shops and restaurants. A very eclectic choice too (of each of these). 

On arrival at the hotel, the place is quite an impressively large corner building that looks like its always been a hotel. The plot includes outside seating and an enclosed veranda. I did find it hard to find reception though! There's no obvious signage and no obvious door - just a thin glass window in a wooden panel you have to push! 

Once you're inside the guest zone, the place is like a labyrinth - long, dark, bland corridors that all look the same. Room numbers are below eye level and not on the doors where you would expect and signage is minimalistic or completely absent.

Check in was smooth enough, especially given the very recent booking, however I was told my room was on the ground level and was surprised when I had to carry my bags down some stairs...

I presumed the 'ground floor' incorporated a mezzanine and was all called 'ground'. It wasn't, it transpired my room was actually on the lower ground level so this caused confusion both getting in and getting back out (cue lots of expletives as I rode the lift back up 'a level' to the first floor and couldn't even find reception let alone the exit). Transpires they have a lift and if you are told the right floor, there are not so many stairs to contend with!

On entry to the room, I was a bit surprised the sash window was open and the heating on 28°C but didn't question it, just shut the window for security and turned down the heating... Access to a fridge and complimentary tea and coffee (but no biscuits) we're a nice touch.

I went out and ate some food. Great Chinese restaurant just round the corner by the way called Kam Tong - sensible prices, excellent service and delicious food.

I came back and realised the room had an issue. It smelled of spilt beer. Tired after a long day that had started at 4.30am, I called my wife and lay on the bed to find out about her day and tell her about mine. The longer I lay there, I got waft after waft of drainage smell from the bathroom. 

My wife told me to ask them for another room which they did, bless them, with no hassle. Only the Porter got a bit lost when locating the room for me (and he works there...) so this kinda proves my point about signage.

The hotel feels quite modern inside and they've used high quality materials. Both rooms I had  contained 4-poster beds and had nice high ceilings. However, I think the renovation is getting long in the tooth. They've obviously had some leaks (plumbing rather than roof, methinks) as there are obvious stains in the corridor carpet in a couple of places and there is wear and damage to odd bits of furniture, fixtures and fittings (nothing major though) throughout.

Almost all the internal doors are like this half-screen design which you can see through. They slide, which is nice till you're trying to be quiet at night as the rumbling is quite loud. The bathroom door made me jump though... The bathroom door has a mirror embedded in it, which I didn't notice when I shut it due to the A/C and escaping steam. Given it was open on arrival (and another sliding door so hidden from sight), I went to leave the bathroom following a shower and nearly jumped out of my skin, thinking another person was just outside the bathroom door! I physically jumped!

It looks like real marble or at least real granite in the bathrooms (floor, walls and sink/vanity bar) and under floor heating was a nice touch. The heated mirror was also a luxury (it didn't steam up). The water pressure is great in the shower, and the big rain shower is lovely but the showers are also noisy - you can hear them in other rooms - and they make a loud clunk when you shut them off. The towels were nice big bathsheets and clean, if not massively fluffy, and face cloths are provided too, as well as hand towels. I think it's worth mentioning that the free toiletries smelt really nice too! I used the soap, shower gel and shampoo.

The radio alarm going off unprompted at midnight was a PITA but other than that, I slept really well. The bed was really comfortable and nice and firm. It was also LONG! I was really worried by the inbuilt TV in the bed in the suite as it essentially boxed off the end of the bed. I am over 6'2" tall (189.5 cm to be more precise) and usually my feet hang over the end in a hotel bed (in fact, in most beds everywhere) but with my heels against the footboard, I could fit two full clenched fists between my head and the headboard! I reckon, despite being no wider than a standard double, the bed was around 2.1m long!

The lights were annoying. They didn't seem to be connected to the wall switches so I had to go round the whole room turning things off individually (once I'd located the switches!) before I could go to sleep.

Breakfast wasn't bad; I've had worse. I'm a sucker for a full English, especially when someone else is cooking it for me, so despite the very tempting Eggs Royale, Florentine or Benedict, I went for the 'Free Range' option from the fixed menu (all hot food options are cooked to order). The 'bacon' was very continental in style and a choice of beef or turkey sausage was unusual in the UK but understandable, especially for such a multicultural city as London, since some people won't eat pork. My poached eggs were a little firmer than I'd have liked but not dry and the hash browns were crispy. The baked beans came in a little pot and the fried mushrooms were tasty. I asked for brown sauce and this took a while to come but service was friendly and otherwise efficient. The coffee however, while tasty, could have been warmer - and for me to say that, it means it was really not that hot as I don't like truly 'hot' drinks. It came in an insulated cafetiere but once I had added milk, it was tepid at most.

Checkout was easy, friendly and seemed genuinely interested in the problems from the night before.  valet on hand to open the door on the way out

With so much other choice, I personally would look at other options before booking again but I wouldn't rule it out (especially after a good night's sleep!) - plus this is just my experience; yours might be totally different. :-)

Not bad but marred

Stayed before when it opened and loved it but this visit the cracks are beginning to show;friendly check in , we got a great rate on a suite at the front with its own terrace.
Room was a good size , had everything we wanted the cleanliness could have been better though. 
This room had a new striped carpet more comfortable than the sisal that everyone comments on, some hideous striped cover on the sofa and some limp looking cushions.Hope this is not the look for the up coming revamp , starting to move away from the original design that makes this hotel so appealing to many guests, the breakfast room has had a reshuffle and is now a jumble of tables and some tired units hosting a mediocre breakfast. I won't comment on the chipped paint work and dents as I know this will be addressed shortly.
Can't fault the service but they need to stay with the designers original vision to keep the hotel as stylish as when it opened, sure this is the attraction for so many people; and of course the location!

Great hotel could be better!

I booked the hotel on Secret Escapes not knowing a lot about it but found it a very different hotel to most I’ve been to. The entrance is tucked away at the side of the building for a start. The outside is dominated by the outside dining area. 

Inside it’s pretty dark especially the corridors and the signage is small so you could easily get lost. However, the junior suite we had was good and well equipped - I especially like the heated floor in the bathroom. The room was big enough and another good feature was the tv which popped up from the end of the bed.

There is a Vegan restaurant attached to the hotel, which looked very nice but the hotel also offered Greek food to be delivered to your room. Not sure if the hotel is advertising itself as a Vegan hotel or both? 

However, the staff were friendly and helpful and they offer a late checkout.

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