Firstly, the hotel is located in a very convenient area - nicely positioned for transport whether that be the bus, tram or the underground. Lots of decent places for eating lunch but we struggled to find nice places for an evening meal.
As for the hotel itself - some of the rooms are decorated a lot nicer than others, ours was quite a basic room and really small. Not much space to move around in but that doesn't normally bother us as we literally just need somewhere to sleep and keep our stuff.
The big problem with the room - as suggested in the name - is the binmen. They seem to come at least 3-4 times a week at 2am and can be there for up to 2 hours and they make an insane amount of noise as our room backed onto a service alleyway with LOTS of giant bins on there. If that wasn't enough to contend with there were also 5am wakeup calls from the beer delivery, bouncing kegs on the floor and that happened twice during the week we were staying.
We asked to move rooms but there were not other spare rooms that we could move to. The staff were friendly and helpful whenever required but sadly couldn't accomodate this request.
The free breakfast was pretty good really, plenty of juice, coffee, toast and bagels which was fine for a quick fill-up in the morning.
The bed was very comfortable - a really thick foam mattress and I have a very bad back at times and it didn't bother me once, very supportive without being hard. The bathroom was small itself but the shower was very nice and powerful.
There's no climate control in the room other than opening the window which was impossible at night due to the noise from outside. Would really benefit from some air conditioning. There was a small heater in the room but we didn't need to use this.
The website says that rooms come with an iron and ironing board - these weren't included. We got an iron from reception and it didn't work.
Room 211 has a faulty electrical socket which sinks back into the wall when you plug something into it. Little bit concerning...
Free wireless in the room was fine, good signal at all times and decent enough speeds to stream a football match.
For all intents this IS a budget hotel.
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