This is a guest post from Kara.
Mimi’s Hotel Soho – 6/10
❖56-57 Frith Street, London W1D 3JG
Myself (Kara Whitby) and Nan (Karen Marwood) stayed at this hotel from Saturday 15th
February 2025 – Sunday, 16th February 2025. This hotel cost us £162.76 for one room with a
double bed. This room was also in the basement of the hotel, which had no windows.
The reception team were very accommodating and helped us with checking in as well as
showing us (with a map) where everything was around Soho.
The room itself was a small rectangular room with the double bed situated on the left hand
side as you walked into the room, and then a small telly on the wall on the right with a coffee
machine facility below the dressing table with a square stool underneath it. The only
problem I found here is I do not drink coffee, there were no alternatives for this and it was
only the machine, so it also did not offer decaf for nan.
This was all very compact but very well laid out, so you get everything into one room without
missing out on anything, apart from the no windows. The bathroom was through a door
on the right which had a sink, toilet and shower. The pressure from the shower was very
good and the temperature stayed the same and didn’t drop in and out, which was good.
The room had air conditioning and free wifi, and all rooms were key card accessible.
Zedwell Underground Hotel, Tottenham Court Road – 8/10
❖112 Great Russell Street, Camden, London, WC1B 3NQ
This was the second hotel we stayed at from Sunday, 16th February 2025 – Monday 17th
February 2025. This hotel cost us £78.57 per night for one room with a double bed and
again no windows.
Zedwell Underground Hotel rooms are all underground as their name, again,
they are all very thought out and the space is well saved. This had a double bed to the left as
you walked in and a bathroom to the right with sliding doors to separate these two rooms.
It had a toilet, sink and shower. Again, the pressure was amazing and the temperature didn’t
drop in and out.
This hotel let us check in early for free. This is normally a charge, however, the rooms were
ready and the manager, Saurabh, was on the desk to help us, so we weren’t waiting around
for 2 hours. Check-in is normally 3 pm and checkout is at 10 am. The rooms didn’t have tea
and coffee facilities in them; however, the reception area had a hot/cold water tap and all the
tea and coffee amenities to make your drinks and paper cups to take to your rooms if
needed. This helped when Nan had a sore throat and needed a lemsip. I could make it and
take it to the room, also when we checked out we could still enjoy a cuppa in the reception
area before having to leave and start our day.
This hotel offered air conditioning, free wifi and card accessible rooms.
Assembly Leicester Square – 7/10
❖27 – 31 Charing Cross Road, Westminster Borough, London, WC2H 0LS
This was the third and last hotel we stayed at. This was from Monday, 17th February 2025 –
Tuesday, 18th February 2025. This hotel cost us £179.33 for one night and one room, which
had a double bed and a bathroom with a shower, toilet and sink. The only difference
with this hotel to the others was we weren’t put in the basement; we were put on the eighth
floor / 10 floors and we had a lovely view of the London Eye and the cheese grater building
as we all called it. Check-in was at 3 pm and checkout was at 11 am. Again, this hotel let us
check in early for free; no charge was added. As well as this, when we checked out we could
leave our bags in a safe place with no extra charge for this either. This hotel had a rooftop
bar/restaurant. This is what sold me on choosing this hotel, as well as the random rabbit
decorations and props that were around the hotel. However, once we were in the hotel, not
much of this was seen apart from a rabbit in the room and the random rabbits in the reception
area.
None of this was continued into the restaurant area, also the prices were very steep, I had
a Disaronno and coke and nan had a glass of prosecco and this came to £24.47.
Again our room at the Assembly Leicester Square didn’t have any tea or coffee facilities in
the rooms, and also nowhere for us to use these apart from buying it from the restaurant
upstairs, so this was not included in the price.
This hotel offers air conditioning, free wifi and key card access.
All these hotels are within walking distance of each other and close to all the things we wanted to see and do in London.
I agree with you, Kara, that the Zedwell underground hotel was the best for us. I liked the large reception as it had seating areas throughout and free drinks. We only had to walk around the corner to reach the theatre that evening.
I was surprised with the underground rooms as I had never seen or heard of this before, but when all you are doing is changing and sleeping they had everything you require plus all the bathrooms were excellent.
Thank you, Kara for writing this super review. Maybe you should be a blogger as well as an event planner.
