Here's some google juice for our last hotel in London.

Checking in they asked me to fill the form only with my passport number, nationality and email address. It's a step forward but what they should really ask you is my weblog url. This might have helped them deciding about the room to assign us.

The Paddington Court Hotel in London belongs to the Best Western chain (reservation made via hotels.com). Visiting the hotel site you will have the chance to look at some beautiful virtual reality views of their premises. Here's what you don't get on the site.

As with many other in this area, this hotel is the result of many houses stiched together. This mean that to get to our room we had to go up some stairs, trough the lounge, up more stairs, trough a corridor, down stairs, another corridor, up more stairs... all this with a pretty large suitcase (which later at the airport would have been labelled "Heavy" with two large yellow stickers). By the time we reached our room, which I estimate was probably in Cambrige, I badly needed a shower. The room had everything you would expect from a modern hotel room but the room.

Look at the picture, it was tiny, the bed was against the wall (and the radiator) and there was hardly the room to open the suitcase. The bathroom was somehow better, even if we had to fix the sink and the shower was so limescale encrusted that it was spraying water everywhere but in my direction.

The hotel was horribly expensive but this applies to all hotels in London so nothing to complain on this side.

Overall it was not worse than many other hotels in the area, travelling alone the rooms are probably okay but they are definetly too small for two people.