Waltham Forest Hotel Guide - Luxury Hotels in Waltham Forest, United Kingdom

I have taken a 1 or 2 week summer trip to Europe every year for 30 years and this year I decided to visit England for the first time. This hotel was a colossal bargain as everything was wonderful. The room was spotlessly clean, the bathroom had unending shower hot water and a very large soap/shampoo dispenser as well as a bathroom door that locked. The air conditioner was quiet and worked very well. Most hotel rooms require that you put your room key in a slot on the wall to get the light to work when you are in your room. If you pull your key out to leave the room, everything shuts off including the air conditioning. In the Ibis the same is true except the air conditioning keeps working. This was a blessing when I returned to the room on hot days as the room was still my perfect temperature. The room wifi worked great on my laptop computer with it's large built in antenna but neither of our two cell phones could connect to the wifi from the room although they both connected fine in the hotel lobby and breakfast brunch area. Note that you need a new wifi password and user name for every device you use for every day. Just ask at the lobby. The lobby staff was so very friendly. The breakfast buffet was great and the hotel is very short walking distance to many eating and shopping places as well as many buses to take you anywhere you want to go in London. Walthamstowe is the closest bus, subway/tube train central station at which most of the buses near the hotel stop.

Two moans. The receptionist told us that breakfast was not included at the rate we paid. Luckily I had the printed confirmation which verified breakfast included. A breakdown in communication? Who knows. People coming in late, not considering those already tucked up, not a big deal but a little consideration wouldn't go amiss

We stayed in a family room, it was spotlessly clean & very comfortable. The staff were very friendly and the breakfast was good. We would happily recommend to friends & family.

A very disappointing and annoying check in despite arranged time. A staff from Andora Apartments called 2 days before our check in date to arrange time for the collection of keys as there is nobody on site (i.e. reception). She has offered that keys can be collected earlier than the usual check in time which is 3 pm. We have agreed to get the keys at 12 pm as we wish to leave our luggage before we go for our city sight seeing. We arrived 5 minutes early to the time agreed hence called their local number and the help line but it's been on answering phone. Several calls made and yet no return call despite several messages left. 40 minutes later, we managed to speak to somebody and assured us that somebody will come to meet us. And still this has to be followed up us nobody came up. Somebody came up later, who was not apologetic at all for the inconvenience we suffered. He doesn't appear to be interested at all as we check in. Asked for our identity and started taking photo of my hubby's ID and credit card without any explanation. On our return to the apartment following our day out, we found the apartment: not properly cleaned as the skirting board covered with dusts and dishwasher dirty covered with yellow stuff, no extra bedding for the make up bed in the lounge, no frying pans & unable to lock one of the patio door. A guy came up the next day, after our follow up call, to fix the patio door and gave us our extra bedding. Still no frying pan despite his promise.