The Z Hotel

Amazingly central location and got a last minute room at a great price. The rooms are small, but that is a common theme of all hotels in London unless you want to spend and exuberant amount on a room where you just sleep. I have it four stars because my bed was too firm. They should have a better mattress.

I stayed here on the company dime, so I’m not going to complain too much about this hotel’s drawbacks. It’s probably fairer to just list the pros and cons:
Pros:
— Free wine and cheese (and bread, fruit and accompaniments) hour from 6pm — 7pm (or was it 8pm)?
— Free apples and flavored water in the lobby
— Pretty friendly staff
— Kitschy, modern, bathroom appliances
— Central location, just steps from countless restaurants and across the street from the Prince Edward Theatre (Miss Saigon, hello!)
— Cheaper rates than most nearby places
— Comfortable bed and lots of clean towels
Cons:
— No space whatsoever. Even for space-​constrained London, this is bad. A giant queen bed pushed up against a corner means nothing when you practically need a harness to climb over to it. The bathroom – and I use that term loosely – is literally the size of a public toilet stall (I’m not exaggerating)
— Potato bugs in your bed crevasses. Not what you want to see crawling on your clean towels
— No closets. It doesn’t seem like that would have taken up too much space with the way the hotel is designed
— The weird, outdoor hallways. Kind of a pain when the weather is cold
After staying here, I now verbally bitch slap anyone who complains about small New York hotel rooms (like the Hudson Hotel, really?) because you don’t know travel tetris until you play it at the Z Hotel.

Ja, die Zimmer sind mini. Aber eine top-​Infrakstruktur, der Service ist super und die Lage perfekt. Hervorragendes Frühstück und der Apéro ist für Hotelgäste offeriert. Top für Alleinreisende oder Paare, die meist draussen unterwegs sind, nichts für Familien.

This hotel is in the perfect location. It’s less than 5 minutes from Leicester Square and the shops on Oxford Street, and 5 more minutes to Piccadilly Square. There are pubs and restaurants everywhere, and shopping is only a few minutes walk.
The rooms are TINY! Really, really tiny. I assume there’s no outlet in the bathroom because you would electrocute yourself standing in the water generated by the shower. I just plugged in over by the door and used the full length mirror on the back of the door to do my hair. The husband would leave at night so I could go to sleep, because there’s no chair or anywhere other than the bed to sit. And I would wait until he left for his meetings in the morning before I got up, because there’s not room for two people to get ready at the same time.
But if you are just there to visit and you aren’t planning on being in your room much, it’s absolutely perfect. I actually thought the bed was comfortable, I just wish the blanket had been a little larger because if you rolled over you left your companion without any blankets. And they lose one star because there was no water our first morning there, and the didn’t offer us any compensation for not being able to shower or brush our teeth (fortunately there is free bottled water in the room, so teeth got brushed.)

SMALL!
A two person room is hardly big enough for one!
My partner had to lay on the bed if I wanted to get dressed because there was only standing room for one.
Poorly designed space!
And it made me realize that there are so many things I take for granted in a hotel room. (You really don’t know what you have until it is gone).
For instance:
A light above the bathroom mirror (made it very hard to put on make up)
A slanted shower floor (the shower had no door so water went EVERYWHERE)
A power point in the bathroom (great that they gave us a hairdryer but I had to sit on the bed to dry my hair)
Working key cards (despite having the problem dealt with twice, every time we wanted to go into our room we would have to cross our fingers that the door would open)
Hot breakfast (a buffet breakfast is optional but no cooked food…)
However there were some positives:
Wine and cheese at 5pm every day and the location of the hotel is great!
Such a shame they haven’t got the little things right…

The location of this hotel is fantastic, really in the heart of Soho and close to 2 tube stops Victoria and Picadilly. The hotel itself has made clever use of limited space, your room is a condensed version of a normal sized room, when I lay on the bed and reached one arm out I could touch the shower/​toilet and if I stretched my leg out I’d touch the desk or chair — it’s tiny, but I knew that so wasn’t surprised. The only downfall was when I woke in the night forgot where I was, and almost took out the coffee pot on my desk!
I found the staff here lovely, really friendly and helpful. I also like the inside courtyard of winding stairs and an area to view the rooftops of London. I think it’s ideal if you’re visiting London for business for a few days as you don’t need a large room, also loved how from 5 – 8 they gave the guest unlimited wine/​cheese in the kitchen.
The things that I feel could be improved is installing some kind of shower curtain between the shower and toilet, it was difficult not to wet the whole floor and installing some shut out blinds. Overall though I enjoyed my stay and would return.

The location is almost unbeatable.
Absolutely TINY rooms, but they are nicely finished. The towels are plush and everything is incredibly modern. The staff goes out of their way to help you if you need anything at all, and there is always some fun drink or snack awaiting you when you come back from a walk or a show.
Unless you are VERY comfortable with the person you are staying with, get two rooms. Seriously, the rooms are the size of a cheap cabin on a cruise ship.

For a wannabe-​boutique-​hotel with this pricetag it has some way too obvious and annoying flaws.
The rooms are tiny shoeboxes with the bathroom behind a see-​through glass.
Ventilation didn’t work.
The matress lies on a wooden box and not on springs, thus it’s rather uncomfortable and unacceptable.
The whole light scheme is based on cold white/​blue light and makes the room feel very uncomfortable on top.
There is no socket in the «bathroom» for the hairdryer — how could someone not think of that? Instead you have to plug it in at the coffee machine and probably tip over your freshly poured up coffee in the morning when the cable runs over it.
And there’s not even any kleenex in the room so you have to use toilet paper for anything.
Obvious flaws, as I said, that they would notice if they tried so hard to be boutique.

Room for lovebirds. Very small, but still comfortable. Glass showers… zero privacy. Well located. for theatres & restaurants. Free all you can you eat wine & cheese.5−8 every night. Would definitely come back.

En el centro del Soho, con «complementary wine and cheese» todos los días de 5 a 8, agua minteral, café y té en la habitación, un trato excelente: este hotel lo tiene todo. Eso sí, las habitaciones son minúsculas y minimalistas. Si lo sabes de antemano (y lo dejan muy claro en la página web y en sus fotos) no te sorprenderás y te fijarás más en los detalles bien pensados que acompañan el diseño. Si esperas una habitación estándar te llevarás un choque ;)
La ventaja: sabiendo que vienes aquí ya harás la maleta con mucho más cuidado. Básicamente no hay dónde meter nada, así que menos que llevas, menos te tropezarás con tus cosas en el suelo.
Y haz un esfuerzo para tomar el wine & cheese por lo menos una vez. Vale mucho la pena.

My husband and I just stayed here for 3 nights and had a wonderful time. The rooms are small, but we knew that going into it. We wanted an affordable hotel in a great location and that’s exactly what we got. Great service, clean rooms, complimentary wine and cheese every night from 5 – 8. Couldn’t really ask for more!

Location is awesome. Very close to Victoria Station. Walking distance to attractions. Quiet. Very clean. Staff is polite and courteous. Happy hour with cheese, crackers and wine every evening Yummy Rooms are tiny but comfortable. Room temp is controlled by front desk but was comfy. This was my first time in London and didn’t realize restaurants stop serving new customers at 2000! I was starving and got to the hotel around midnight after searching for real food (the food at the little grocery shop was just not edible). The staff of this hotel even when they stopped serving around 2100 whipped something up for me at midnight so I could sleep wonderfully with a full stomach! Wasn’t that just sweet. If you need a room just to rest after walking and site seeing all day, this hotel is perfect. I would come back to this hotel again.

Small rooms. 2 persons is a crowd. Very clean, helpful and friendly staff. Free wifi. Great location in middle of soho. Walking distance from Leicester sq tube station.

The room is as advertised. The staff is very friendly and accommodating to most requests. The Wifi works great on the lower floors so keep that in mind when checking in. You can’t get a better location for the price in Soho. Will stay there again!!!

I stayed here last week for three nights and I had an OK stay but I’m not sure I would stay here again. You are probably picking this hotel based on the location in Soho/​Covent Garden area, so if you want to be right in the action, this is a great location. On the downside though is that the streets are very noisy even late at night, so if you are a light sleeper, I would probably reccomend staying elsewhere.
For some reason, (I swear I don’t know why), I got upgraded from my queen room to one of their flats. The flat room was extremely large and nice. It was a bedroom, living room, kitchen, and bathroom. I wish I had planned to throw a party because this would have been the perfect spot for it. The layout of the bathroom was rather strange though because the only mirror was way over in a corner, away from the sink, which made shaving kind of difficult. I will echo what the other reviewers said about wet rooms as well because the shower always seemed to spray out into the rest of the bathroom. The other annoying thing about staying in a flat was that this part of the hotel is seperate from the rest. You actually have to walk behind the front desk, through a baggage storage area, and then go through a one-​way door and up the stairs. When you leave you can only go out a door that leads right onto the street. Every time I wanted to go to my room I would go behind the front desk and the worker would ask where I was going. It got annoying after a couple times. «My room is back here! Ohhhh ok.» I did enjoy having the large room though especially after I saw my friend’s ‘normal’ room and how small it was.
I had booked the breakfast as part of my stay and it was decent but nothing too fancy. Meats and cheese, pastries, coffee.
Overall it was an OK stay. Like I said I would probably stay somewhere else next time because I don’t need to be right in the middle of the busy street, but if that’s what you’re wanting then I would stay here.

The pros:
— the hotel staff are quick and eager to please
— the place is very clean
— they have a complimentary wine and cheese happy hour
— the free wifi is fast (but not secure)
The con: the rooms are tiny. Really more like cubes with accoutrements.
— We had a double room — it was simply not large enough for two people. If one of us was moving about, the other had to sit on the bed.
— The rooms lack standard amenities like closets, drawers, and doors on the shower
— The shower was actually so small that you can’t stop water from getting everywhere in the rest of the bathroom
— The double beds are not long enough for people 6′ or taller, and not wide enough for two people to be really comfortable.

I stayed here a few months ago, while visiting friends. Awesome location! The hotel is very simply done. The rooms are VERY small. Be prepared for wet rooms. It was very clean as well and reasonably priced. I’d stay here again.