“ideal for weekend visit to east london”

ideal for weekend visit to london especially for east london area. 5 mins walk from tube & bus stop right outside. stratford shopping centre nearby too. breakfast times good - as doesnt finish too early!

“Clean, reasonable, adequate”

Although this hotel is not a "five minutes walk" from the station, it is a reasonable walk and can be done with no stairs, if you don't take the back short-cut. You can pull your own bags from the station or take a £5 cab ride. You can easily access all trains and tube lines from this station so that was very handy. The hotel itself is clean and comfortable. Spartan but reasonable. The staff is virtually all non-English speaking, but that is to be expected in London. Breakfast is OK provided you avoid the congealed eggs and greasy bangers. There is no bacon. Internet access is additional and expensive. Avoid it if you can. You can get free wireless access in several area restaurants. Because of the upcoming Olympics, construction is constant and goes on 7 days a week. Avoid booking a "standard" room if you don't want a handicapped room. There is a shopping center close by with a cinema and a good pizza restaurant. Because this is in zone 4, the underground rates will be expensive. But not as expensive as staying in a zone 2 hotel. Overall, this was an OK experience. No charm but clean and perfectly adequate.

“Holiday Inn could do better”

Booking with hotel was all fine, and situated in a convenient place to the area we wanted to be, a lot of building work in the whole area due to the Olympic games including in the hotel, which we were aware of and completely fine with, but did not think the builders would be banging and using hilti drills at 8 am on the Sunday! The room was fine but the bed was not of the quality you would expect from a Holdiay Inn it was collapsed in the middle, we did ask for it to be sorted/changed but it was not. My hubby even ended up sleeping on the floor because of his bad back. The breakfast while included was fine for the toast, tea etc but the cooked food scambled egg and sausages (only) were not good and of very poor quality. Not a very good example of English hotels to the many overseas guests who were staying there.

“Disappointing cooked breakfast”

Nice hotel,nice staff, nice room, everywhere clean and smart but cold and lifeless cooked breakfast.