...and with that the 2025 Ambassador Free Weekend Night Certificate comes to an end. Just finished my 2 nights here during Valentine's Day as Diamond Ambassador with Annual Lounge Membership.

The hotel is located in central London, with Hyde Park and Buckingham Palace just a stone's throw away. Great for touristic purposes. Hyde Park Corner tube station (Piccadilly) is nearby, also Green Park with more tube options is not that far away. Several buses are also on the spot.

Booked King Cosy, received King Classic. The room seemed very old and small for IC standards, but maybe it is just London. The bathroom was tiny as well (no shower, just bath with an ewwwwwww curtain to protect the bathroom against splashing water). Little amount of electric plugs, weary signs on many things.

The service in the lounge was impeccable though. Thanks Chirag for you attention! I drank champagne during the evening cocktails (I think some drinks were also available, as well as cold canapes and sweets, but I stuck to the Moët). The breakfast was really great (waffles and eggs florentine). I believe the buffet spread in the club was similar to the one in the main restaurant, as I also tried it out once. I usually see that club lounges have less options but come with a'la carte menu. Here - not so much, both locations had similar amount of goods. The pastries were top notch though! I did not make it to the afternoon tea, although I've heard good things about it as well.

I also witnessed a cheap-... situation in the lobby. Just before the end of the evening cocktails, a couple filled in two glasses of champagne (each), a glass of wine (each) and grabbed two unopened beers. That would have been absolutely fine (the lobby service encouraged filling all the glasses) if only ...they also didn't take an unopened bottle of Moët and hid it under the couch they were sitting on. I'm pretty sure they took that bottle to their room afterwards. I guess this is why we can't have nice things, duh.

Back to the hotel - the cons? Small, old room, relatively bad upgrade and no pool.

So - if you plan to drink a lot of champagne in the evening, this one is definitely worth it. If you don't have club access, this will feel no different than any okay-ish hotel. Hotel Indigo Clerkenwell that I stayed in a couple of months ago had bigger room and similar (great) a'la carte breakfast.

Here's a couple of pics from the breakfast: