The Clarendon Hotel

Totally worth the price paid. Rooms are quite small, but we didn’t pick it for luxury — we were doing quite a bit of sight seeing and wanted to be located within walking distance of major attractions. Hotel staff was very friendly and accommodating. Breakfast was sufficient to keep me going until lunchtime. I will stay here again in the future.

One of three in the group side by side in a row of beautiful townhouse within an idilic setting in Bloomsbury. So close to 2 tube stations and a nice walk from Euston station. My stay here was in a basement room which ideally should be avoided. Once in the room it was of a good standard and very clean, but a good deal smaller than the room I stayed in the previous week at the sister hotel next door called the Portland, if the rates are the same then you MUST stay at the Portland. Which ever hotel you stay at the breakfast is always served in the Clarendon. I had continental breakfast which was good quality and the toast was always hot! (A must for me). good choice of cereal, meats and cheese to get you going. The room has tea/​coffee facilities as well as a sofa area too. The staff although polite are quite hard to understand. My trip was for business so I can’t equate the value against what I got for the money. I probably wouldn’t pay more than £150 for 2 people, but I maybe out of touch with prices?

The cheerless staff was incredibly unhelpful. When we checked out they didn’t even offer to help my girlfriend and me take our bags out to the taxi. They left the lugging for us.
Don’t expect Internet service either, unless you’re willing to pay something like five pounds for the hour (maybe two hours) or 10 pounds for an entire day. Even use of their fitness center will cost you extra.
The room was so tiny, the bed took up most of it, which made moving around the room difficult and finding a comfortable place to stow our luggage the pits. Not to mention, the floor was slanted, which would have made a game of marbles difficult.
But the bathroom was comfortable – if you don’t count the vent in the ceiling, which sounded like a clogged vacuum cleaner, while it sucked up the air the whole time we were there. (We could not turn it off.) We had to shut the bathroom door, so we could sleep.
All in all, a lame, overpriced hotel in a wonderful city. When I return to London I will not be staying at The Clarendon.

3.5 stars, really.
This is one of the many hotels in the strip of white pillared townhouses on Bedford Place, just off of Russel Square. Booked a couple nights here on our way out of town because of it’s close proximity to the Piccadilly tube line, and general closeness to everything central. It appears, although I’m not sure, that all these houses were bought up by one developer at some point and turned into hotels. Not sure what the ownership situation is, but I’m sure that this strip of hotels, despite having all different names, are probably identical inside. Very cookie cutter.
For some reason, the rooms were really reasonably priced over the bank holiday weekend. The price was double on Saturday what it was Sunday and Monday, so be wary when booking that the prices are really really fluid.
The front desk service was really helpful and friendly. The room itself was standard — a good size. Not huge, but not small. The bathroom was clean and modern with a giant enclosed tub (not one of the open ones that gets the floor all wet.) The bed was comfortable and the TV had ample channels. A good hotel overall. Oh, and lovely views of the garden out back from the window. Green and lush and well tended.
Oh and the maid service was some of the best I’ve seen. Carefully tended to our belongings we’d left out, but very respectfully — and fully stocked us up with everything we needed. (Perhaps I was easily impressed because the last hotel I stayed in was in Buenos Aires where they can’t even be bothered to replace the toilet roll!)
The reason I can’t give it a 4 star rating is for an odd reason — the temperature. There was no air conditioning in the room, and no overhead fan. Only a small, electrical circular fan hiding in the closet, which we pulled out immediately and never turned off. It was one of the stuffiest rooms I’ve ever been in — it was late May while I was there, and I was miserably hot in the daytime (it was ok at night.) I could not imagine how uncomfortable that room would have been in August, however. Only one window — no window in the bathroom either. So yeah. Very hot and stuffy. And the low ceilings didn’t help either.
So I would go back to stay again, but never in summer!!!