Anonymous User
August 8, 2024
Let me start with the advantages:
1. Convenient location, with subway, bakery, café, restaurant, and waitrose supermarket within walking distance.
2. The apartment is fully equipped, and the supporting facilities are also top-notch Miele.
3. Although it is an apartment, there are still dedicated people to clean and tidy up the room every day.
Disadvantages:
1. Low cost performance. This is the lowest cost performance in this three-week trip to London. The apartment hotel I booked later is only two blocks away from this hotel, and the price is almost halved.
2. Deposit collection, card consumption has safety risks. This hotel still charged me a deposit of 120 pounds after paying the full amount. Afterwards, I asked my friends who live in London, and my friends said that they had never encountered the matter of collecting deposits.
Since it was my first time using a single-currency card in China, I was not very familiar with it. Obviously, I could tap the POS machine quickly and contactlessly, but the front desk lady who always wore a businesslike smile inserted the card again and again and said that it could not be swiped. So I took out all the credit cards on my body to try. I had to check the security code on the back of my card every time I swiped it. I felt uneasy. I called the bank immediately to ask why the hotel needed a security code when it was a POS machine. The bank told me that the hotel staff's behavior was risky for the cardholder. Security code verification is only for the cardholder himself. Sadly, on the first day in London, I had to report the loss of two cards to ensure safety.
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