"Firstly, the positive about this experience:
-The staff is amazing and thoughtful and really kind and helpful thorough the stay.
-The location is incredible, right on a side street off the strand, near Charring Cross and Embankment stations. We basically were able to walk everywhere quickly and not spend too much time on buses/underground which was incredible.
-Beds were comfortable and slept very well overall
-AC worked well
-Nice to have a fully stocked kitchenette to store breakfast, snack and leftovers
-Very quiet overall; some sounds now and then from the hall and rooms above us, but outside noise non-existent
-Auto blackout curtains are a great touch; made sleeping in easy
The things that are ok, but could be better:
-There's no shared lounge area for guests, just a narrow lobby that the staff also works out of. It would be nice to have some more of a shared space, but understand that's not possible based on the location.
-Not enough storage for clothing/toiletries/food; all the kitchen shelves/spaces are taken with items so there isn't anywere to put the food items we bought; it would have been good to have dedicated shelves for toiletries in the bathroom, and some more clothing specific shelving; but there was sufficient under bed storage where I put all my clothing which was great until I realized ("the bad" below)
The bad:
-We had bed bugs which I discovered about half-way through the stay. I had one big bug bite after the first night, but didn't realize that it was from a bed bug. I then proceeded to get about 6 bites overall on my arms, neck, hands. My friend discovered the actually bug and we shared with the hotel staff. The staff was super helpful and responded immediately with concern, offered to change our rooms, send all of our clothes to be washed/dry cleaned at the correct temperatures. The hotel staff was super apologetic; and went above and beyond to help where they could.
-In our first room the in unit dishwasher was moldy/smelled terrible; I had to call down and request cleaning multiple times; so it was un-usuable and made the whole room smell bad"