 I understand the savings made from using self service check in hubs and the support staff hovering around are great but when you re tired from a journey and just want to get to your room and the bar having to laboriously type in postcodes and telephone numbers on a clunky screen keyboard is a pain not severe but mildly irritating The hotel is only one year old and there are little signs that maintenance may not be quite as obsessive as it should be Electric blinds a little damaged wash basin tap a bit wobbly These details that didn t bother me but if maintenance isn t kept at 100 it will soon get dingy and the whole brilliant cool value proposition goes down the drain and it turns into a bland Mercure or Best Western 
 This modern ber cool hotel is not my normal style but I loved it it s as far from the classical luxury hotel as you can get yet every tiny detail has been carefully and lovingly worked out The WiFi is astonishingly fast c 100Mb download AND upload at 8 30am The roof top bar views are heart stopping The d cor is brilliantly original yet tastefully short of being over the top the floating lamps in the atrium and ethereal video game lift elevator announcements just made me laugh out loud with delight Yet this is a great value hotel In an amazing location with the one of the best views in London for around 200 a night is excellent I ve stayed in some really miserable places for that rate The cost cutting is extremely sophisticated in its implementation The small rooms are built with standard plastic modules and yet feel comfortable and high design with huge comfortable beds big TV screens and total room control from an iPad mini In the shower lavatory module the shower is outstanding with intuitive controls that don t require an engineering degree to figure out I really didn t care that the bars great music btw are only counter service because the bar staff were so good and the view well I already gushed about that Staff are not too cool to be charming even to an old fart like me The restaurant is self service with a limited but tasty and creative menu it calls itself a canteen and that s what it is but that feels right From my experience this is by far the best 200 hotel in London I m curious to try some of the others in the chain The ambience made me feel about 20 years younger too 