Best Western Plus Vauxhall Hotel

Stayed for one night with my wife, close to US embassy. No evening meal but loads of great places to eat local, recommend Humble grape, Battersea. Very clean and modern, especially the ensuite. Staff very helpful less

A small boutique hotel, nicely tucked away just off the main street and modernly refurbished. We enjoyed our short stay here and were very comfortable. There are coffee shops and restaurants nearby and the tube is walking distance. We would like to say a big 'thank you' to receptionist Rufi who made us so welcome when we arrived on a very hot day. Staff go the extra mile here for long travelled tired guests and it is very much appreciated. We hope to be back. less

First of all, lets manage your expectations: If you're travelling for work, staying for one or two nights and the larger, more established hotels are fully booked or out of cap and you want something better than the Travelodge, Holiday Inn or a Premier Inn, then this hotel is perfect. If you're a family visting on vacation for a week, or a couple down for the weekend that want a showstopper then this hotel won't tick the right boxes. The hotel works because it takes everyting that makes the budget hotels such a good business model and completely perfects it. It's entirely demanding of the increased room rate over the budget hotels but it still sits at a very comfortable price point. The hotel works because it forces you to take an inventory of your wants and needs as a business traveller, and offers everything you need with a premium feel. The rooms aren't enormous, but are comfortable, air conditioned and tastefully decorated - do you actually need that extra space? Some of the hotels only have small windows in the basement area, but there's nothing to look at out of them anyway. And they open! There's no wardrobe, but a rack to hold your suitcase and space to hang your shirts up - when was the last time you really unpacked everything for one night? The bathroom consists of a shower, basin and toilet, but is finished to a standard that far outclasses its budget rivals - do you actually need the rainfall shower and separate bath? There's no on site restaurant, instead the front desk will order deliveroo directly to your room. I don't even have to open the app. The breakfast consists of toast, scrambled eggs, juice, coffee, pastries and is served in a comfortable and well decorated room - Do you actually need 12 different types of sausage? Even staying at the upmarket hotels I can't remember the last time I didn't have just scrambled eggs on toast. The reception area is a desk staffed by one friendly person, with a small bar - do you need a 3 million pound lobby designed by someone you've never heard of? Yes, these are all cost saving exercises, it might not be everything you could possibly want but the BWPV has succesfully identified everything you need and delivers it on a silver platter at a reasonable price. I couldn't recommend this hotel enough. less

I have stayed in some questionably established hotels in my time across the world but the strategic photography and elegant indications of good quality accommodations end almost at the moment you arrive at the entrance. I’m reminded of the entrance of perhaps a hostel you’re taken to because your plane has dropped a wing somewhere outside Minsk and these were the only rooms in town. Having spent a few moments convincing myself this was not a dream, nor had I stumbled upon by mistake a cowboy themed ‘best western’ brothel. A front door sized entrance I can affirm is utterly fabulous fun to get through whilst holding bags, being convinced a ‘madam’ will still appear with a list of services, the icing is the poor trainee left to seemingly run the hotel alone at 1am. Now the fun really begins, believing my stay could be a protracted one, upgrading to a ‘junior suite’ gives, well those of us that have stayed in hotels claiming to be even 3* would hint to a generosly proportioned room, perhaps a sofa and I don’t know - A Wardrobe Perhaps?! I opened the door and had to remain open mouthed for some time, I could just about manage to get into the room being that the nightstand is approximately a rats tail’s width from the door, there was at least a bed - hurrah - as for seating, the sole occasional table with a chair worthy of the namesake. You wouldn’t want to sit there for any period longer than on the occasional emergency. A dark work area and a tv so small, that from the bed, I would have been straining to watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Having absorbed the pretty, yet compactly disappointing bathroom with this fascinating Uk obsession with nailing cheap product dispensers on the wall: it then hit me, why is it so dark. Yes it was 1:30am but there’s dark and there’s Russian prison circa 1923 dark - there was no wall based window, anywhere - a skylight high up a tube ceiling gap. So a prison it is, or a submarine - either way I didn’t pack for North Sea trials. Tried sleeping one night but you hear every door, every domestic quibble, pin drop? Yes heard that too. The staff nattering possibly so distracted the DND sign still ensured I received the obligatory bang on the door “housekeeping” In short, this planning application disaster should be avoided under all normal circumstances. Unless of course you’re a mole, a gluton for disappointment. Or just released from the aforementioned Siberian prison. Never again. less

Clean hotel tucked away off the high street. Small room with no windows which felt very odd and a bit cramped. Ok for a 1 night stay but wouldn't stay for longer as no room to put anything. Handy for Vauxhall station. less