10 Manchester Street Hotel London

( 3 stars , London , United Kingdom )

Location excellent - easy walking access to Baker Street tube, Madame Tussauds etc. Lots of traditional English pubs and eating establishments in close range Lovely Italian just around the corner. Hotel only did continental breakfast but it was a good selection. Anyone who really needs a full fry up can walk on to Baker Street and get fed in a cafe. Rooms were basic but adequate. Decor, fixtures and fittings all need major attention and beds were quite uncomfortable. But we weren't using the hotel for anything more than somewhere to base from and sleep, and it was good value for both of these. You would be hard pushed to find anything as good at the price, and I would stay again.

My wife and I just returned from a stay at the Manchester 10 Hotel, an advertised three star hotel. First the good news. It is well situated. Now the bad news, it was completely unsatisfactory regardless of price. I’ve stayed in at least twenty hotels in London and this was by far the worst. The web site describes rooms “furnished to the highest standards.” Our room had stains on the rug, mold on the bathroom caulking, and remnants of old fixtures on the walls. The carpet and furniture were worn through. The web site again - “satellite TV, trouser press, hair dryers, mini refrigerator and coffee preparations.” Reality - a 14” TV, no press, a door labeled “minibar” that revealed an empty box, and a coffee maker for which no coffee was ever provided. Shampoo and soap were never replenished so we bought our own. Lighting was very poor. At various and unpredictable days we had a single bedspread for our double bed, two single bedspreads, a double bedspread, and a blanket. The staff needs training. I could go on. On the last day I observed a group walking through the hotel and asked the staff who they were. I was told they were the “owners’ and were preparing for renovations. They said the owners wanted to upgrade it to a three star hotel!!! I thought we were in one but they said absolutely not. Now I'm not sure how the star designation is overseen. Don't stay there. You can easily find an equally well located hotel for a comparable price.

Spent three nights here. Woken up by maid bashing on door at 9 am, not welcome when you are jetlagged, then she did it again half an hour later. Breakfast was indifferent, room was dingy and not very clean, with grotty old furniture. Sunday morning, hoping to get a lie in, woken by power drills on site next to hotel. No double glazing, what torture is this. To get in-room coffee cups clean, maid does them in bathroom when she cleans that. Ugh! Fortunately there are plenty of other places.

Stayed at the hotel for 4 nights during Easter. At first we were given a tiny room with a very small double bed. I went down to the reception to ask for another room, and there was no problem getting a bigger room with two well-sized beds. Friendly staff. Clean room. We paid 65 pounds per night for the room, and considering the excellent location, I must say this stay was absolutely worth the money. Old hotels in London often look a little shabby, and so does this too. Carpet all over the place, even in the bathroom, but again - location and price makes this a good deal. The trouserpress in the room has probably never been used, considering that there was no electrical cord on the thing. The minibar was empty, but whatever; the fridge didn't work anyway. Ask for quiet room - the small one was on the quiet side, but the other one faced the construction site - very noisy during the day (but very quiet during the night). All in all; if you get a good price, this is absolutely a good place to stay in London. Almost everything within walking-distance !

The hotel is located on a quiet little street in a very convenient location close to most major attractions and transportation is also easy. There are many trendy restaurants and pubs around the corner in Marylebone high. The hotel itself is beautiful, the rooms are well kept but not very big. The dining room is nice, as is the lobby room which even has a terminal to access the internet. I truely enjoyed staying here and I think it's quite reasonable for the price.

Stayed here for one night, because I'd heard it had been refurbished. The only evidence of this was new numbers on the room doors. It is in a nice location and reasonably quiet. I thought I'd get a bit more character for my money than at my usual chain hotel - I was right there ... ! Inside my room (206) smelled stale, looked grubby. Blind wouldn't work (permanently down), no remote for TV, only 1 plug to share between bath and basin (and it didn't fit either), chipped enamel in bath. Taps didn't work in bath mode - only switched the shower on. Grubby carpet in bathroom. Sheets and towels clean, but bed uncomfortable. Minibar missing - I wasn't bothered about a Minibar, but the cupboard door with the label 'MINIBAR' was hanging on one hinge, and opened to display several pieces of loose wood and screws, which pretty well summed up the hotel for me ...

The hotel is indeed welll located, minutes from Selfridges and the other way from Baker Street tube station. An ideal location for shoppingm, theatre of parks in London. Minutes from the West End, Soho and all that London offers. It is indeed a splendid Edwardian building, as I undertsand it was established in 1906 as a hotel (or hostelrie) and frankly it must have been amazing in its heyday. The problem today is that like so many English hotels, it is all a bit thread-bar and don at heel, although this one is close enough to average to be saved! Where shall I start? Well the reception made us wait 10 minutes while he stapled some paper together and other admins bits - rather than seeing to us with a smile. The entrance looked superb - blue Christmas ights and well lit - welcomingly warm (although more of this later) and well furnished - the artistic mrit used in the hotel brochure and PR shots is apparant immdiately but it is not shocking until you get to the stairs. Here the carpet is threadbare - why not sort this out? The hotel is oppressively hot everywhere - in the halls and the rooms. They could turn the heat down and shut the windows as the main radiators on the stairs well red hot with an open window above? The room was well proportioned, although advertised as a suite it should have been. However - it STANK of cigarettes - and I smoke socially but it knoked me for 6 - it was disgusting. We checked in around 9pm and could not be bothered to complain - instead we decided to treat ourselves and buy some cigarettes (although we gave up months ago) to mask the smell! The room looked good, on closer inspection the carpet was a bot grubby and stained, the bathroom a bit old and tatty - but in general OK - aside from the heat that made the smell worse and which then turned to artic cold at 12pm. If they took 1/2 a day per room over the course of a year, and spent say £100k (£2k per room) they could up thir prices by £20 and pobably gain a star or two. The lounge was sweet (too hot) and well furnishd - but lose the gas effect fire - it looked like my Grans in c1978. Overall we had a great weekend - it was just disappointing that the hotel could have really been amazing with some thought - even perhaps if they washed the voile at the windows (crikey it was SOOOOO dirty I almost gagged), come on hotel owners - make the Manchester Street a real treat in a crowded market - it would be so delightful to stay in a real boutique hotel and with Marylebone Lane and village on the doorstep, and surrounded by corproate or busienss hotels, there is surely a market?

Everything said by previous reviewers is true BUT if you pay (as we did) under £70 for a double room then you get what you pay for and the location is marvellous.Treat it as the quaint but shabby former nurses home it was - more a hostel than a hotel- and it will be fine. The young staff are charming.The breakfast is terrible value. We understand the anger of those who expect 3 star boutique standard, and pay for that.Caution - our room was on the front, away from the building site at the rear.Guess it will be potentially noisy at the rear for lie-a-beds....

I booked this hotel through Last Minute(-). It was listed as a 3star plus hotel. This hotel was pure awful. The rooms were cramped and dirty. The en-suite had an "antique" shower that did not work; it also had carpet on the floor which was badly stained. In the bedroom the curtains were stained and the windows rattled all the time. Whoever wrote the list of facilities available in the rooms should become a fiction writer. The back of the hotel is a complete building site and noise can be heard from it all day. The breakfast served at the hotel is very very poor in choice, with small boxes of cereals, small bread rolls or bananas as your choice for breakfast. There wasn’t even toast available! This hotel cost me €327 for 3 nights in a double room, which was prepaid. Because this hotel has a 48 hour cancellation policy, we would have lost what we had paid, if we tried to move hotel. I would find it hard to rate this hotel as even a 1-2 star. It was pure awful, avoid at all costs.

We were booked into another hotel but bumped just before we left home. This was supposed to be a 3-4 star hotel but it barely rated 2 stars if that. First of all the staff spoke little English and gave us a key to a room which was already occupied. After some difficulty in persuading the receptionist that it was indeed occupied, we were given the key to a 'suite' ie a large dark room with a good bed but poor lighting and gloomy, dingy curtains plus a miniscule sitting room with a large wooden animal and an l-shaped bathroom with stained carpet and a shower that was challenging to say the least! Towels and bedlinen were clean. The TV was a small portable which was the only thing suggestive of 'satellite' and the minibar was an empty switched off fridge. Breakfast on the first day was like being in Fawlty Towers - no bowls, plates, cups, orange juice, croissants, butter, jam - my husband ended up in the kitchen asking for a bowl for his cereal and a spoon to eat it with!.. Breakfast on the second day was slightly better as we were first up (7 am) but there were still tables without cups and the half-used jams from the morning before had not been replaced. We returned to the hotel 15 hours later (our son was running in the London Marathon) to find that our room was not made up - the story was that we had left a Do Not Disturb sign up - we hadn't. Fortunately for the peace of the hotel there were enough clean towels, teabags and milk for us to use left over from the previous day so that we did not have to complain. When we were leaving there was an appalling noise coming from the back of the hotel - we assume that this was the building site mentionned in other reviews - and we were happy to flee. Never again!