Name: Wardonia Hotel
Address: 46-54 Argyle Street, London
Telephone: 0800 031 8416

Very comfortable night in tiny...

Liked: Very convenient location for St Pancras and the British Library. Staff were friendly. Temperatures outside were in the 30s centigrade but I was given a basement room which was beautifully cool and I had an extremely comfortable night’s sleep, for which I was immensely grateful.
Disliked: The room was tiny, but I was expecting this. It’s what you get for this price in London.

Passable

Pleasant

Only if you have to.

Liked: It’s so close to St Pancras.
Disliked: They put us down in the dark damp dingy basement, so imagine all rooms are not so bad. A joke for £136. Luckily only staying to make an early train.

comfortable and convenient. Good for...

Very good

Remarkably small but good use...

Liked: Well appointed for St Pancras/Kings Cross. The staff on reception were welcoming and friendly, and all basic amenities were provided, including a hair dryer and kettle with tea/coffee station, even some hanging space with half a dozen hangers which is really impressive given the amazingly limited room size - think cabin on a 6 berth boat, almost! However, it was impeccably clean and in a good state of repair throughout, with shower gel and hand soap provided in the bathroom. Ultimately it was ideal for us as we arrived in the late evening, had dinner nearby, were in bed by 11pm, and then up and out for 4:30am to catch the first Eurostar of the day to the Netherlands - we picked it entirely for proximity relative to price. However, had we been spending more than a night it would have been far too small for our sanity, no matter how well-appointed they tried to make it.
Disliked: It’s even smaller than the measurements would suggest - there was just enough room for the bed with a foot between the wall and the bed end, but pushed right up against the window so someone has to genuinely climb over their bedmate to get in or out. We’re not big people by any means but we had to take it in turns to sit on the bed whilst the other got dressed. There’s also not a great deal of room to put cases or bags other than in the gap at the end of the bed or behind the door to the room if you’re settling down for the night. The bathroom door is unusually narrow by any scale and the bathroom also very small: if you’re on the bigger side you won’t going to be able to easily (or comfortably) access any of the facilities. The primary dislike, however, is the price: at over £130 for the night, the only reason it was worth our while - and therefore our cash - was the stone’s throw proximity to St. Pancras. For any other purpose we would have been really disappointed at the value for money.