Review of Great Northern Hotel, A Tribute Portfolio Hotel, London 5*

This room is incredibly small, even for European standards. I’ve stayed in smaller rooms in Asia, but I’ve never stayed in a room that was so badly designed. It was stunning how poorly designed and placed everything was. Zero thought was given to people actually using the room. The bed mattress is set on top of a high platform, a normal technic in small rooms so you can put luggage under the bed, but in this room its closed off, so it is totally wasted and your luggage has to sit in the middle of the extremely small floor space. There is a small closet that they then fill with stuff so you can’t use it. There is a tiny desk that they then cover with stuff so you can’t use it. The power outlets are hard to get to. None of the switches are labeled and the placement of them are just bazar. The hallway from the bed area to the bathroom is so narrow that if you open one of the half doors for the closet or bathroom you can’t get by. Two people can not walk through this area at a time. The bathroom is right across from the door entering the room and the gap between the two half doors is so big that if someone is in the bathroom and the room door is opened, anyone outside of your room will see you going to the bathroom (this happened to me). There is a heated towel rack, nice addition, but its placed as far from the shower that you’ll never use it. There is a towel rack on the shower door, but the way the door pushes into the shower, when you turn the shower on to warm it up, the towel and yourself will get wet (which a blast of cold water every morning was not my favorite thing). There are just so many of these stupid decisions that were made in designing these rooms, like whoever put this together had never stayed in a hotel room. The toilet paper roll is behind you, even though it a wall next to you they could have put it on.