пятница, 23 ноября 2012 г.
The main restaurant is in an area that used to be the ticket office. I had a late night of drinks an
Unlike my last visit to London , for my most recent trip, I had the benefit of a bit of advanced planning. I carefully reviewed my company's approved hotel list, and picked the "least bad" property that was in a reasonably proximate location disneyland hotel deals to where I needed to be. While sadly our approved list doesn't include my favorites (Lanesborough and Mandarin Oriental), there was at least a long list of approved properties to choose from. I'd read a number of not bad things about the St Pancras, and, since it fit my location needs and I'm building Ritz Reward points, I decided to give it a try.
Located in a still active train station, the hotel offers some fairly dramatic public spaces. disneyland hotel deals The main lobby/lounge, a large event room and the main restaurant all are located in what was originally part of the St Pancras train terminal.
disneyland hotel deals The room category that I booked – and I presume what I got – was a standard room. I provided my Ritz Rewards number in advance of arrival (I have a silver card). Sometimes this gets me moved into a higher room category at Ritz and other Marriott-branded disneyland hotel deals properties; no luck this time, but that was fine. The room, while uninspired, was larger than I expected for a run-of-the-house hotel room in London.
The main restaurant is in an area that used to be the ticket office. I had a late night of drinks and hors d'oeuvres here and breakfast during each day of my stay here. The quality of the food offerings disneyland hotel deals was good, and the service was satisfactory. Perhaps the only drawback was if seated near the windows overlooking the tracks, it was quite cold. Due to their age, the windows and doors were quite drafty.
In the main lobby, there is also drink and food service. One night, my colleague thought it was too drafty in the main bar/restaurant, so we had drinks in the lobby. At 10pm, despite having eight or nine separate parties eating and drinking in the lobby, the waitress came by to tell us her shift was over, and if we wanted any further service, we'd need to move to the restaurant area. While we did have to move to a drafty part of the restaurant, I found it a bit disheartening that so many parties were asked to leave or re-locate. Based on the diverse set of guests running up tabs in the lobby, it couldn't have been unforeseen that guests would be in the lobby late. The waitress could have been asked by the manager to stay late, or waitstaff from the restaurant (quite nearby) could have looked after these active tables. disneyland hotel deals The hotel should look to amend its work schedule to accommodate disneyland hotel deals their customers.
From some discussions disneyland hotel deals on FlyerTalk, I understand there is a club lounge at this hotel. As a Ritz Silver cardholder in a regular room, I wasn't entitled to club access. It sounds like the hotel is taking an exceptional view of the club lounge, and not making it available to Marriott Gold and Platinum guests, despite some fairly clear language in the program documents.
My colleague and I sought the advice of the concierge for a local Indian restaurant. His suggestion came immediately – Roots N1 . Roots was an Indian restaurant with a somewhat limited – but exceptional – menu. Located in a not-so-high-end residential area, this restaurant was definitely a find. If you are looking for good, but not unduly fancy Indian, you will be pleased at this restaurant. Details are below.
For the price point, I was quite satisfied with my stay at the St Pancras. While I'll probably experiment with a few of the other company-approved properties in London, in light of our current travel disneyland hotel deals limitations, I'd be content to return to the St Pancras.
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