InterContinental Hotels Group Stay Forum - CP London (Shoreditch)

I was attracted here by the far better rate than on offer at the City location near Blackfriars.

First impressions - area is distinctly "up and coming" and it's a rather uneasy walk up from Liverpool Street station. Lobby is quite functional.

Treatment of Platinums seems good - I had booked a club room anyway but it seemed as if one would be offered. Free choice of newspaper in the morning. Fruit plate and box of chocolates in the room.

The room - not overly large, bath over shower. 1st floor but sound insulation was good. Bed not massively comfortable unfortunately. Desk had sockets so low down that the plug for my PC wouldn't fit in - grrr... Only one small dressing gown provided, towels not very soft.

Club lounge - not open in the evening on a bank holiday. Breakfast from 6.30am - adequate but not exactly lavish.

Summary - a good bit cheaper than the sister hotel, but it needs to be!

First post here.

Have to agree with Swiss Tony. The hotel is a little far from Liverpool Street Station. I'd recommend taking a bus for easier commute.

The hotel facade and lobby are also nothing to shout about. But this is the only hotel (I stayed in 3 in London over the past 2 weeks) that I felt tries hard to please its guests.

I used the 2-4-1 rate to book a King Bed Club room. Fruit platter and chocolates, welcome letter with half-bottle wine voucher. Checked in on Friday, had some drinks in the Club Lounge and then couldn't access the lounge again on Saturday and Sunday. This to me is rather silly as the room access is by card only and no staff is required to man the room. Needless to say I felt a little short-changed.

Hotel staff members are polite and very helpful. Room and breakfast are nice. This balances the minus for the location.



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I was attracted here by the far better rate than on offer at the City location near Blackfriars.

First impressions - area is distinctly "up and coming" and it's a rather uneasy walk up from Liverpool Street station. Lobby is quite functional.

Treatment of Platinums seems good - I had booked a club room anyway but it seemed as if one would be offered. Free choice of newspaper in the morning. Fruit plate and box of chocolates in the room.

The room - not overly large, bath over shower. 1st floor but sound insulation was good. Bed not massively comfortable unfortunately. Desk had sockets so low down that the plug for my PC wouldn't fit in - grrr... Only one small dressing gown provided, towels not very soft.

Club lounge - not open in the evening on a bank holiday. Breakfast from 6.30am - adequate but not exactly lavish.

Summary - a good bit cheaper than the sister hotel, but it needs to be!

The hotel is a little far from Liverpool Street Station. I'd recommend taking a bus for easier commute.



I didn't find the walk from Liverpool St too bad.
Admittedly we only had cabin size luggage but we did have a grumpy teenager in tow.

I thought the area was really quite interesting - Brick Lane / Spitalfields & Columbia Road Flower Market were particularly good.

First post here.

Have to agree with Swiss Tony. The hotel is a little far from Liverpool Street Station. I'd recommend taking a bus for easier commute.

The hotel facade and lobby are also nothing to shout about. But this is the only hotel (I stayed in 3 in London over the past 2 weeks) that I felt tries hard to please its guests.

I used the 2-4-1 rate to book a King Bed Club room. Fruit platter and chocolates, welcome letter with half-bottle wine voucher. Checked in on Friday, had some drinks in the Club Lounge and then couldn't access the lounge again on Saturday and Sunday. This to me is rather silly as the room access is by card only and no staff is required to man the room. Needless to say I felt a little short-changed.

Hotel staff members are polite and very helpful. Room and breakfast are nice. This balances the minus for the location.



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Hi Staying there this weekend. Did you book/pay for breakfast or did they offer it to you as a compensation for the club not being open?

Ta

Adder

Hi Staying there this weekend. Did you book/pay for breakfast or did they offer it to you as a compensation for the club not being open?

Ta

Adder



We stayed at the weekend (Fri-Sun) but booked a standard room (inc breakfast).

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/11601916-post1194.html

We were upgraded (in advance) to a club room but as breakfast was included in the rate obviously - we took breakfast in the restaurant.
As we were upgraded to club & breakfast was included anyway obviously it was not too much of a problem not being able to take it in the Lounge on Sat & Sun when effective the Lounge was shut.

If you've paid for a club room - I'm pretty sure they're not going to object to you taking breakfast in the normal restaurant at no extra charge.

I think if they've upgraded you to club - you probably have less of an argument. They still may do it though - they seemed pretty accommodating to me.

If you are faced with having to pay extra for the breakfasts - If it were me - I'd ask if there was an offer - They seemed to be very active with promos in this restaurant.

Hi Staying there this weekend. Did you book/pay for breakfast or did they offer it to you as a compensation for the club not being open?

Ta

Adder

Breakfast is free to club guests regardless of rate on a weekends. This is because there's no breakfast offered in the lounge over weekends.

As for the lounge not been open on weekends, it used to be 24/7 last year and was always well stocked with drinks. I suspect abuse was the reason they changed their policy, it's an unmanned lounge and on weekends I've seen groups of people emptying the fridges there and drinking until they were sick, the cleaners had a very busy time that night! As rates are very cheap on weekends I guess they considered it just easier to make the benefit weekday only.

Hi Adder,

Breakfast is included in the rate; it's only a matter of where you take it. Since the lounge was closed during our stay we took ours on the 7th floor restaurant, which can get pretty crowded with the tour bus groups.

HTH





Hi Staying there this weekend. Did you book/pay for breakfast or did they offer it to you as a compensation for the club not being open?

Ta

Adder

Thanks for your replies. I booked a club room but not with breakfast so I supose I can now expect it.

Thanks again