Best Western Mostyn Hotel, London - Hotel Review

It’s a well known fact that London is a very expensive city on all counts and especially much so when your home currency is at a huge discount to the British Pound. Whenever we had to overnight in London to catch an early flight out of Heathrow Airport, we’ve always stayed at a B&B around the Victoria Station area so that we can easily hop on the tube out to Heathrow.

Mostyn Hotel London

For those who are used to searching for deals on the net, what you see is usually not what you get, especially in the area of budget accommodation. The nicely touched up photo on the net ends up being a tired looking building in reality.

You can sometimes get lucky though, as we were on this one trip. We were starting our tour from the Thistle Marble Arch Hotel at 6 a.m. in winter. A 6:00 a.m. start in any season is hardship for us! I didn’t see the value of forking out GBP 175 for a few hours sleep and went about searching for a hotel that was as close as possible to the Thistle in Bryanston Street, but at a better rate. I had stern warnings from Tony that “we don’t want to be dragging our cases in the streets in the cold of the winter at 5:00 a.m.” I found the Mostyn Hotel at number 4 Bryanston Street, which according to their map looked quite close to the Thistle which didn’t provide a street number on their site. At GBP 65 for the night, I figured we had plenty of spare change to afford a cab if it turned out that the Thistle wasn’t within easy walking distance.

Mostyn Hotel London

We travelled by tube from Heathrow to Marble Arch and by the time we arrived it was in the early evening and dark … and cold! When we reached the hotel, we were pleasantly relieved that the back entrance of the Thistle was exactly opposite to the Mostyn entrance. Phew! what a relief for me. We did the usual check in formalities and were given directions by the check-in clerk as to how to get to our room - straight down the corridor, turn right, turn left, go through a door, etc. etc. As we were trying to follow his instructions, we felt sure that we were headed towards the dungeon of the hotel. At GBP 65 this could well be the case. When we finally opened our room door, we had our next surpise, a beautiful room with plush velvet curtains, richly furnished lounge, magazines and books and a tea chest that was filled with a nice variety teas, hot chocolate and coffee. As I was looking around the room in disbelief, I heard a cry from Tony, somewhere from above me. There was a staircase leading to a second floor. We had in fact been given a lavish suite that occupied two floors and quite luxuriously furnished, all for GBP 65.

The Mostyn Hotel is part of the Best Western Group and is located just off from Marble Arch and right by the famous shopping area of Oxford Street. The hotel building itself has an interesting history. It was built originally by John Adam as a stately home for a certain Lady Black. This was in the early 1700’s when Lady Black was a lady-in-waiting to the court of King George II. Many of the original Georgian features of the building remain today such as the ornate ceilings in the restaurant and the conference rooms.

Well we enjoyed our luxurious suite for the night and didn’t want to leave the next morning. We said to the Desk Manager that the room was fantastic and he said “Yes, the normal rate is GBP 300 a night”. Gulp! It’s no wonder the room was so comfortable.

Helen