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High Road House Is A Finnish Sauna in London

Where: 162-166 Chiswick High Road,, London, United Kingdom, W4 1PR

January 31, 2007 at 5:11 AM | 0 Comments

Just recently we listed the High Road House in London as a member of the new "elite budget" London-style B&B trend, and hot on the heels of this has come a Times UK review. While it still sounds like a good bargain--the reviewer considered the 100 pounds per night "very reasonable for London"--the accommodation isn't quite perfect, apparently. Of course, you have to remember, this is London, where everything costs an arm and a leg; but even so, this room sounds a little odd:

It was small, startlingly white and a just a little claustrophobic. It reminded me of a white-washed Finnish sauna. The walls had wood panelling. There were wooden shutters on the windows.

At his end-of-review summary, reviewer Tom labelled the worst part of the High Road House as the "poky room".

So what was good? The food, as we've heard before; the service (the receptionist knew his name on entry); and the "funky basement lounge with its red leather sofas and centrepiece crimson pool table". Perhaps the poky white room is something you can put up with in exchange for the use of a crimson billiards table.

[Photo: Marcus_Neto]

Related Stories:
· High Road House reviews [TripAdvisor]
· High Road House [Times UK]