I shared a room with a colleague for a conference and although the location was pretty good the step inside the front doors said it all. There was this unpleasant aroma, the lifts looked very old (one poor couple that was already in a lift I approached could not get it to go up because the door on the other side was open into the kitchen!!). The room itself had ripped curtains, very small beds, stains on the arm chair and carpet. On the upside the food was nice but I did only have breakfast and the doorman could not do enough for you. It seemed to me that if this is Houston's take on British style it does not say much about us brits... tired, scruffy, smelly (the lobby), old, damaged..... when you look it like that you have to laugh. It was only missing Basil Fawlty on reception (non-brits look for Fawlty Towers on youtube and you'll understand!!)
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