The Gore

We stayed at The Gore on Saturday evening for the last night of our honeymoon. We got a deal through HotelTonight for $ 214, including taxes and fees. Considering the location and charm of the hotel, we thought this was a very good deal.
When our cab pulled up to the hotel, it looked adorable. A boutique hotel that blends right into the neighborhood. We were helped quickly at the front desk and then immediately escorted upstairs. To say the room was tiny doesn’t fully do the phrase justice — with one carry-​on on the floor, my husband and I were hopping over one another to move around the room. Still, it has more of a cozy than cramped feel to it. There was a king sized bed with a small desk. The furniture wasn’t new but it didn’t feel used or dirty at all. The bed was very comfortable. The bathroom was even smaller — it was hard to maneuver around the toilet. One of my big pet peeves (though it seems to be more and more common) is not having a shelf in the shower. There was a tiny shelf with a few toiletries on it, but that doesn’t help to shave your legs! The water pressure was some of the most intense of any shower I’ve been in, and the water stayed nicely hot for the entirety of the shower. Of note, the free wifi was also very strong.
There’s also a cute/​trendyish-​looking bar in the lobby. We went in and it was too crowded to get a seat and we had an early flight back to LA, so we didn’t stay. Breakfast could have been included, but it wasn’t cheap and we knew we could get better prices and a small walk in before our long flight back by going down the street.
Overall, we’d definitely stay again when back in London.

Had a really great stay. I took my mum to London as a treat, and I wanted somewhere quiet and a bit old school, without a dj in the lobby. This was perfect. The lady at the front desk took really good care of us.

Still such a charming and old school cozy venue… but the last experience was a far departure from prior.
Still very quiet, but also overcharged (for two wines so fairly simple, plus 12.5% service charge, so small errors for only two glasses of wine with no apologies is annoying). Many middle aged people living outside the area and not staying at the hotel seem to come to order a lot of food and catch up, so most larger seating areas are filled with just parties of 2, which is a tad annoying, as well.

I loved our 8-​night stay at The Gore Hotel.
The rooms are small, but well-​appointed and completely charming. For example, gorgeous antique brass and copper exterior pipes run water to the bath and shower. Plush bathrobes provided, high thread count sheets, lovely antique furniture throughout the entire hotel. Complimentary bottled water, tea, and coffee self-​service in a lovely library on the first floor. True, the breakfast is expensive but it’s delicious and the restaurant is so lovely that it’s worth it. Location is ideal if one likes museums.
I was a bit disappointed that the staff, though perfectly attentive and knowledgeable, were English-​as-​a-​Second-​Language speakers, making my British experience less so. So I discovered that London is a global city like any other these days, with international workers from around the world. Just about everywhere we went (museum stores, restaurants, hair salons) it was the same story. I’m not sure where British people work?
I took off one star due to the lack of wi-​fi. The Gore has a complimentary, communal PC available, but the machine was so old and wi-​fi connection so slow that it kept freezing up. One can purchase wi-​fi by the hour or day, but that’s what made my husband so mad. He says only the high-​end hotels still charge for wi-​fi.
Still I would definitely recommend The Gore Hotel and can’t wait to go back.

C’est au Gore Hotel que j’ai résidé durant mon séjour à Londres, profitant d’une offre sur Very Chic.
L’hôtel est situé non loin du Royal Albert Hall et d’Hyde Park: un quartier mignon.
Le personnel est très accueillant et à l’écoute, pour faire en sorte que votre séjour se passé au mieux. Il né parle pas français, mais se montrera patient si vous avez des difficultés avec l’anglais.
Passons à la chambre: typiquement anglaise ! Dépaysant au possible. La chambre est hyper clean, accueillante.
Question cuisine, le petit déjeuner est dingue. Nous l’avons fait déposer dans notre chambre: miam… Plus de choix que le petit déjeuner en salle.
Quand au repas, bon. Pas exceptionnel, mais bon. Comptez 50 pounds pour deux (un plat chacun et un verre de vin). En revanche ce soir là, notre hôtesse était extrêmement désagréable. Dommage.
Vu le tarif de l’hôtel, je né pense pas avoir les moyens d’y retourner «hors offre».
Mais je recommande vivement cet endroit !

I won’t review the hotel. unless another qype member invits me to review the rooms;) HOnestly, I wen’t in the hotel, desesperate for a drink. Concierge very nicely directed me to the Bar, which is a gem: you ll love the dark wood atmosphere, dim lights, and hidden corners, and comfy seats. The wole place does not seem exhuberant, not at all. It fells just right ! Very classy place, friendly staff and professional. Definitively a place I ll get back to with special friends.

Just stayed at The Gore on a recent London weekend! It is great! Charming, great staff, excellent location! The Gore has a really cool library for the guests to have a cup of tea, etc and meet up with friends or just hang out and read. The restaurant was great and the bar was very cool. It’s where the rolling stones held their record release party for Beggars Banquet and there are some great photos of the event in the bar.

The Gore is a superb hotel, great bar with excellent wine selection, rooms spacious and lovely, a sophisticated atmosphere and a kind, efficient service.

We called in here for some drinks after a gig at the Albert Hall. Nice bar but for goodness-​sake bring your purse !
Also, don’t expect any bar nibbles like nuts or crisps — no such thing !

Extraordinary — it was like living in an episode of Antiques Roadshow — and the lounge is lovely, though the room can be a struggle to keep warm in winter even with the fireplace. Still — you can fill yourself up with complimentary coffees and teas from the marvellous and ingenious no-​mess Nespresso machine with their delicious light as a feather shortbread, sit by the fire and digest the day’s Newspapers — I stayed in the room directly above the entrance with balcony in November 2010.
Surprisingly they do not have BBC Radio 3, 4 or The World Service in the rooms, although they do have digital TV, which I couldn’t find radio on. This is an oversight for the official Proms hotel — peculiar. I expect to see ‘Pure’ stereo DAB radios in each room in due course!
Whatever you do, do not get the front desk to call you a cab — by arrangement with the hotel they charge a minimum of £13, and this was just down the road to the cinema! Call a mini cab yourself and wait near the door outside

We recently booked the Gore directly. We had a confirmed reservation number, we travelled four hours to this hotel, to be told that there were no rooms and we had been booked into their sister hotel ‘The Pelham’, we had booked this hotel as it was a recommended hotel by the Royal Albert Hall, within walking distance, where we were attending a concert that evening.
Travellers beware, and ask if you will definitely have a room in this hotel…

Das Preis-​Leistungs-​Verhältnis stimmt hier schon lange nicht mehr, aber das Hotel hat seinen Charme. Die Zimmer sind klein bis sehr klein, aber alle auch sehr individuell. Die Hotelbar hat auf, bis der letzte Gast gegangen ist, das Frühstück ist fantastisch, der mit 1.000 Bildern dekorierte Frühstücksraum ebenso und das Fischrestaurant im Keller ebenfalls extremst gut, sofern man das Glück hat dort überhaupt einen Platz zu bekommen. Top Lage, sher nahe der Royal Albert Hall und Kensington High Street. Gute Bus– und Bahnverbindung in die City.

Eins der wenigen Hotels in London, bei denen das Preis-​Leistungsverhaeltnis einigermassen stimmt. Nicht billig, dafuer wirklich besonders mit individuell gestalteten Zimmern, die einglischen Charme haben, ohne kitschig zu wirken. Ein weiteres Plus ist die Hotelbar, ein Geheimtipp fuer alle, die nach den Proms noch einen zivilisierten Drink zu sich nehmen wollen.