Hotels Near St Eleftherios Greek Orthodox Church Leyton in Waltham Forest

We always stay at the Lion & Key when we visit London and have been fortunate enough to stay here again in October, December, and also January for my husbands 80th birthday. This really is the ”Savoy” of the small hotels in London and we always know without fail, we will have the most perfect stay. All the staff genuinely care about their guests having the best experience and you cannot fault the care and attention to detail that this hotel takes to ensure an excellent customer experience. They have a great team of which we would like to thank Giorgio, Kanti and Stephania for making all our visits a home away from home. The rooms and also public areas in the hotel are kept pristinely clean and are bright and cheerful. I love the attention to detail this hotel has even with the smallest thing. i.e. the shower cap in the bathroom also has a small hairband in the box ,which is excellent if you have long hair and can’t find your own! The beds are also extremely comfortable and we both always have an excellent night sleep. We love the open kitchen where you can see all the food being freshly prepared and cooked to order. They are very generous with their breakfast time which doesn’t end until 12 o’clock lunchtime. The choice and range that they offer in their restaurant, regardless of breakfast or main meals throughout the day would accommodate even the most fussiest eaters, which I am, but even I am extremely spoilt for choice as the breakfast menu is so comprehensive. The quality of the ingredients used in the restaurant is first class and so is the time and care in presentation which also reflects the pride that they take. We can honestly say that the breakfast’s we have at the L&K are the most tastiest, freshest, consistently perfect breakfast’s we have ever had and far exceed the quality that we have experienced over the years in 4 & 5 star hotels. To be honest, we often wonder how they continuously provide such care and attention to detail for the customer, even more so since Covid as many many hotels and restaurants seem to still use this as an excuse for a less than perfect service or menu range. We must’ve had over 100 of breakfasts since we have been coming here in 2018 and the eggs are always perfectly cooked with a lovely orange yolk, regardless of whether it’s a normal full English breakfast, or my husbands favorite the Egg Royale. We very rarely eat sausages or bacon at home, but the quality and taste of the ones here are amazing, so we always, always enjoy our breakfast which set us up for exploring all day. The transport links to this hotel are excellent as well. There are four buses that go past the hotel to Leyton underground, one of which is running 24 hours and they seem to come by every few minutes. Stratford is only four stops from Leyton so excellent connections for overground, DLR, O2 etc. Liverpool Street is the next stop along for even more connections so the location we find is a great asset to wherever we

We visited at the end of August 2021 and the experience was not a good one! Confronted with a pleasant young man only to be put in a room for a single person ( we are a couple ) right at the back of the hotel with a long hallway and flights of stairs we had a few pieces of luggage as we were going to a wedding the next day. Not happy with our room but we could not change it as no more rooms were available. We were told perhaps the next day. We were also informed that continental breakfast was available daily but we could see no evidence of this as the restaurant was closed up from the inside ( see pictures) Our room was changed the next day but we had to go a wedding so asked if we could move in later no! Was the blunt answer no consideration shown as they put us in a small room! We had to move immediately or soon as. Also the restaurant still looked like a building site and in the corner was a dusty table with dirty plates, when we complained, as we were informed before we arrived there was continental breakfast someone was called in to clean the table and put bread, milk and a couple of boxes of cereal to appease the situation ( see pic ) it was terrible The rooms are not that great and you can hear everything through the walls. A few days in the restaurant was cleaned up and a full breakfast was being served but that was a little to late as we had only 2 days left of our stay and the previous days we had to buy our own breakfast when this should have been provided as we paid for this!!! Parking is also not so great first come first served and parking in the surrounding streets is awkward my best advice from our experience is to avoid this place and find somewhere else!!! The staff there at that time showed no consideration professionalism or courtesy for our situation and tried to fob us off regarding the breakfast situation and our room.

Lovely overnight getaway. Fantastic room - Executive Lounge Room 614 - with a great view of Crossrail. Only downside on that was that you heard the DLR starting at about 7am on the Sunday morning. The receptionist, Sandra, was really friendly and helpful and staffing the bar in the evening were likewise very good. The executive lounge on the 7th floor had a good selection of soft drinks, but we weren’t around to try the hot appetisers or free wine & beer in the evening as we already had dinner plans in the West End. Transportation wise, it’s a 2 min walk to the DLR, less then 5 to the new Elizabeth Line and only a few more to the Jubilee Line - perfectly positioned! Lots of restaurants and bars to choose from as well. Breakfast was fantastic, particularly loved the donut wall! Quite a novelty! The cooked breakfast was delicious, with omelettes made to order - more food than you could handle! Will definitely look to stay again in the future.

Really glad I found this hostel! It’s the first time I tried out capsule hostel, won’t be the last I guarantee! It’s close to brick lane, easy for me to walk to the bigger station. And it make me feel safe! The host is mostly helpful and gracious. Definitely recommend to any solo traveller and backpacker, best price and reasonable price for a resting place. The capsule has multiple of set up as well, so you can change the lighting inside as well, feel like I’m space station Love it!

Loved it! Highly recommend. Super easy to get into town on DLR, and amazing breakfast. Lovely to watch swimmers go past. Staff really lovely and very helpful. Am booking to go again. Rooms not vast, but not too small and absolutely fine (shared a twin room with a pal).

We stayed at Ibis Budget Barking on one of the hottest nights of the year. The air-conditioning worked brilliantly, so we had a much better night than friends who stayed at a much more expensive hotel in central London! We were attending an event at The University of East London SportsDock. It was very easy to get to - just a short walk to the bus stop by Tesco, a 19-minute bus journey which took us very close to the venue - so Ibis Budget Barking is ideal for anyone wanting to go to something in East London. The front of house staff were very courteous and helpful. I have rated this 4 rather than 5 as a kettle ought to be a standard offering in all rooms (in Ibis Budget Portsmouth we had a kettle). But, all in all, an excellent budget location.

I stayed for 1 night recently at wombats on dock st. The hostel is perfectly located close to two underground stations and in central london. The hostel itself is very modern, clean and spacious. The manager zsuzska and staff at wombats are kind and friendly. The check in process was quick and the breakfast was a bargain at £4.90. The room itself was perfect and i slept very well in the comfy bed. I would highly recommend wombats to anyone travelling to london. Thank you zsuzska and wombats for a perfect stay. Dave

The overall experience was great the staff did their best to give us excellent service but just silly things let the experience fall . We stayed on the second floor and as we had our baby with us needed to use the lift . It was a sensitive soul . Sometimes it worked great and sometimes not so much . The smell on the second floor was across between diels or hydraulics smells mixed with sewerage . We seen work men there so unfortunately something wasn't working well and they were doing there best to fix it . Other than that we ordered room service and they didn't open our bottle of wine so I had to go down to the bar to get it opened . After long travelling day defeated the object of having room service . Facilities was great room was very tidy clean and comfy . As I said overall experience was great but for the price paid wouldnt be rushing back . X

The room is clean and very cost-effective. There is no restaurant in the hotel, but there is a good restaurant next door. It is a simple and clear express hotel, suitable for family travel. It is some distance from the subway station, about 30 minutes' walk!