Originally Posted by Land-of-Miles

That £500 a night for a Classic room is an anomaly, those same rooms go for as little as £160 and on average run to circa £300. Of course at peak times prices will be higher but when prices rise above around £300 they are typically sold for then what is actually happening is that they are sold out of classic rooms and are selling more expensive inventory and pushing upgrades for the deserving.

The Classic rooms are not large but neither are those at the Hilton Park Lane across the road and the internal condition is generally better at the IC.

If you don't think the IC is good value there are lots of other options available to you. I don't think it is the best London hotel by any means but for the location and with RA it definitely can be great overall value as both redemption or paid stay (at the right rate).

The rooms layouts and sizes and elite recognition is not a closely held secret it is clear and easily discovered in the public domain. I probably wouldn't stay there if I wasn't a RA personally as other nearby properties where I also have Elite Status would probably give me a better overall experience but that's not to say it is a bad property. When I hear people .....ing about the quality of rooms costing £500 per night though the one thing that chimes for me is that there is no way the complainant has actually paid that amount.