Address : MACNAGHTEN HOUSE, COMPTON PLACE, LONDON WC1H 9SD, GREAT BRITAIN
Location :
Bloomsbury
32 kms to the airport (Heathrow)
42 kms to the airport (Gatwick)
4 minute walk to the nearest metro station (Russel Square)
2 km to the nearest station (Kings Cross)
3 minute walk to the nearest bus stop
5 km to the nearest fair site (Earls Court)
Overview
1 Star, Tourist Class Modern Hotel: Youth Hostel
The hotel is located just five minutes walk from Russell Square underground station. Within fifteen minutes walk are Covent Garden, Oxford Street and lively Theatreland.
The rooms are small and in fair condition with bright colour schemes. The hotel has a vast array of different types of rooms, (double rooms are not available) with up to 20 beds, most rooms (including twins) are with bunk beds. Facilities are shared with a maximum of ten other guests and bathrooms are in good condition. However, the rooms do have their own small steel wash basins. Rooms have combination key locks, rather than keys.
The restaurant is on the ground floor and is decorated in the same style as the rest of the hotel, with polished silver tables and plenty of exposed metal work. The hotel also benefits from a lively bar, games rooms with a pool table and games machines.
The building used to be a police residential building, relatively featureless architecturally, in red brick. The lobby is small decorated in an extraordinary futuristic style with an abundunce of chrome and coloured lights with an eyecatching silver statue of a robot in the centre.
The rooms in this hotel are very basically decorated and furnished to cater for the backpacker market. However, the public areas are very modern and geared towards young 18-35 year old travellers. There is an excellent lively bar in the hotel which serves cheap drinks every night. No guests are allowed in this hostel under 18 years of age.
