Holly House Hotel - London

Thank you to the Holly Staff, they are nice :)

I was totally ignored for 10 minutes when I tried to check in. The clerk was busy on the phone and he did not even acknowledge that I was waiting. He was rude and made me feel very unwelcome. The room was clean and adequate and the location very good.

The rooms are really small and the bathroom is like the one on a plane.

The room and the service was perfect, I thougth that the room would be smaller but it was perfect for the price and the location. The breakfast was fine (coffe, milk, orange juice, cereals and toast) and the workers were nice with us. The hotel is in Victoria Station so you have the bus for the airport in 10 minuts and is the centre of everything. You can walk or take the tube or bus and you will be everywhere.

Useful for a couple of nights in central London if you've got a Victoria coach or train and you need a place to sleep nearb

The hotel is very good comunications, but the rooms are very small and the bath-rooms very very small. The personal staf is regular the recepcion personal no good and the personal for the breakfast very good. The hotel is very noisy for the to be near of the train stations. The price is normaly

Nice, clean room. Very convenient location. WiFi available in the room.

Location is good and the rates are affordable to London. It's a very simple way to stay in town, with some privacy. The room is very small and when it got cold, the shower temp didn't work well... it's a nice option if you don't want to spend a lot and need some privacy.

Too much noise due to the trains!!!

Had a broken window in my room and the staff didn´t seem to care. It wasn´t big so it didn´t bother me at first but when it got colder it got a bit cold in the room. It wasn´t totally clean and the shower was hard to shower in. I Had to like hug the wall to get the water on me. The walls were paperthin and the bed was to hard for my taste. But I didn´t spend so much time in the room and I was pretty satisfied overall. Maybe not for that price, but I knew I was paying for the central location, not the quality of the hotel.

The rooms and bathrooms smell like mildew. I do not recommend it. We had an intoxication. Please Venere, pay attention!!!

Everything Ok, but receptionist(the man) was horrible,so cold never smile and say nothing, when we asked for check in, but his character look like a big boss and he seem not want to be disturbed !and moreover the room-cleaner(the young -gay suddendlly got in my room when we are sleeping, it's horrible!! I will not recommend anyone to stay at this hotel. Before we booked the hotel we 've already read the review of the hotel, everyone said that it's not good hotel, firstly we dont belive it, but now we got terrible thing when we stayed there. Anyway, the only one thing that hotel has : that located in the centre of london.

The hotel location is great as in 5 minutes you have the tube, coach and bus station near you Backingham palace is by walking distance ,the rooms are small but clean the only thing that bothered us was that our double bed was too small to call it that, and the bath room was so small that when you open the shower every thing in it get soaking wet, as for the personel they dont speek a lot only if you ask them they reply.

Excelent service, very well located. Good staff and service. I really recommend this hotel. Thanks!

This is a budget hotel which is reflected in the price. Extremely well positioned very close to Victoria Station. We stayed in a 'family room' with 2 bunkbeds and 1 single. We were unable to pass each other in the room. Shower and wc on suite but same size as a caravan. Our window looked out on a Victoria platform, the trains were less than 20 mtrs away. Very, very noisy. Beds comfy, very clean, breakfast adequate - just cereals toast and coffee. TV and small fridge in room. Okay if you want a cheap no frills room and you do not require much sleep. Larger people need not apply.

The place is quite small even toilet and shower room compared to room rate. I think it may not good for a big guy because he/she may not be comfortable.

The toilets have no been cleaned properely, not all the bedclothes were clean, it smelled in the room.

The room I had booked was not available. I got an other room in an other hotel (Colliers Hotel) witch 4 GBP discount. But in the other hotel they told me that it was a very small room, so with paying of 10 GBP more I could get a bigger room. But in this room there was no coffee or tea maker - as in the Holly House. Even there was no cup in this room. So I did not get where I paid for in the Holly House!

They where not so friendly expecially people at breakfast. They put me in a table with a family when other tables where available. The breakfast consists only in toasts or cereals in supsicious bowls (I would never eat those cereals!!!). The common bathroom was increadibly small and withouth the possibility to wash your hands (you had to com back in your room!). The last day after I took a shower, my electronic key was not working and I had to go in the street semi-naked (beacuse my room was in a different building with no one in the reception). I would strongly not recommend this hotel!

Holly House has a nice location, just at the back entrance of Victoria Station. If you want a cheap room, you may consider it. The shower was not very inviting to be used and most people did not use it. No desk in the room. If you need to do some business work, look for other hotels.

It was fine, due to out short stay. Location is very good, easy to access center and airport busses. The rooms are small and bathroom was shared, very narrow. Anyway, good price for location.

Great location; hotel veeeeeeeeeeeery basic.

After first cleening some items were missing from the room. We did complain to the staff. As a result one of the items miriculously showed up in the room on the next day in the place that we surely checked before. The other item (btw - stolen from the bag) unfurtunatly did not show up. So - be aware and do not leave anything of any value in the room.

It's basic accomodation in centre of London, 2min from Victoria Station. Our room was triple, bunk beds and one single, ensuite with a little space for shower, but that's fine with me. We were on the side that looked on Victoria station and could see and hear trains all night. We were very tired after all day of walking and sightseeing so we didn't hear them. Hotel is in good location, 15min walk to Buckingham Palace and most of London's attraction. Breakfest was OK, toast, cornflakes, jam, butter, orange juice, coffee and tea, 3 people serving you all the time. I paid 3 nights 230pounds for 3 person, so for me this was a good deal.

This was the worst hotel we ever had!!! We do lots of travelling so I'm really experienced when it comes to hotels. This was a small little room where the shower is almost above the toilet (so the whole becomes wet in the bathroom when you have a shower), unfriendly personnel, we couldn't get any sleep as you hear every couple of minutes the underground and trains next to you. And this for 75 Pounds!!! What cheeck!!!

In London for two days at short notice. All other Hotels full. Took 3 hours on internet before finding room via Venere.com and took last room. Arrived at Holly House, took 20 mins to book in because recepionist on telephone. Was then taken 5 doors down the road to the Cedars Guest House. The room was single size (which I booked) but had a double bed in it. Clean with towels & soap and had all facilities as advertised. TV, coffee making facilities, en-suite. However en suite was very small shower room which also contained a toilet & a 12 inch sink. No draws or dressing table (no space to put one) Wardrobe was a box fastened to wall. Worst was the window was 30 feet from 5 railway lines coming out of Victoria Railway Station with trains passing by every 2 mins. The noise was horrendous. The windows where double glazed but one had two screw holes where the catch should be so could not be closed. It had all the facilities you wanted at a good budget price, but very cramped and very noisy

It's directly close to one of London's largest train stations, so do not pretend to have a quite room. The room size is on average for London's standards maybe some items inside are a little bit outdated.

I made a trip with my wife, staying just a few days in every capital city of Europe. The Holly House have a great location and a very good relation betwen price and quality.

We are not a fussy couple at all, we like roughing it at times when we are camping etc. but this choice of "hotel" was the worst we have ever made anywhere. It is officially not a hotel (as it pretends to be), it is a 1* B&B as is certificated in the hallway. Normally we are not put off by bad reviews we read on websites - we've stayed places that have mixed reviews with great success, but Holly House was very smelly, dirty & poor quality. We arrived to our smelly (damp), dirty room and didn't want to sit on the bed because it was covered in stains. Everything was sticky and seemed like it has not been cleaned properly for a very long time. The toilet / shower was down in a small cellar room attached to our bedroom: we didn't realise a bathroom was in there: we thought it was an electrics fuse cupboard, but the toilet & shower lay behind the door, right next to each other (the floor was soaking wet because the shower shares the floor with the toilet). We had a look upstairs at the shared facilities and the shower and toilet smelt rotten up there, it made us feel sick to smell the smell: it was like sewerage. In our room, there were gaps around all the floorboards & the whole room really needed some work doing on it. We felt very uncomfortable. We walked into town, feeling a bit in shock at how this could be rated as a 2* hotel on accommodation websites. Within 50m of leaving Holly House on our walk, we decided we would find somewhere else to stay. We checked into the Comfort Hotel Buckingham Palace Road (actually round the corner from Holly House!!) and paid only £20 more for a good quality, clean room which we felt very comfortable to sleep in! We did not want to sleep in Holly House. We really are not fussy people at all, far from it, but if you don't want to feel very uncomfortable indeed due to low unclean standards & bad smells, we highly recommend not staying in Holly House. Had the property been correctly advertised as a 1* B&B, we would never have booked to

room small and noisy. It is over victoria station!

Staff is friendly, Good service

Very small room and bathroom, but relative clean. Excelent location, 3 min. from Victoria station. Helpful staff. Good value for money.

There are more than one house. This I could not read before my stay there. I didnot stay in the holly house, I stayed in the house of Alexander. Breakfast was in the Holly House. Just some meters from House of Alexander.

I was given a room in Cedar House nearby, room was 3 floors up, staff carried my bag up but I had to get it down. The TV did not work well but otherwise the room was clean and comfortable for one person. Walking distance to Victoria Station, plenty of eating places nearby.

We were several friends at this hotel on a business trip for five days , location is great, very near Victoria station, all buses and centre.The staff was polite, rooms clear,good breakfast.Can reccomend to people on business trip, we'll return soon agin.

very good location and quiet rooms.

The double room and the toilet in particular were very tiny. The triple is perfect if you are with good mates. Great location for decent price. Definitely something I would recommend.

A perfectly amenable place to rest your head for a short stay. Yes, as other reviews have mentioned, it is certainly a 'cosy' fit, but if you go, as we did for only a night or two, it more than does the job competently enough. The en-suite did prove the point no millimetre was left unused in the design of the place! Good location for getting to and about. Overall, fine and a useful location for short stays. I can imagine feeling cramped if it was several days, however. Breakfast was nice.

the bathroom is really too small,but for a short stay is fine. Guys are really gentle,I'll come back!!

staff where really helpful and friendly. rooms where not bad but only for a few days not for week holidays.

It would have been nice to have had a choice of "Cooked" Breakfast as well as just "Cornflakes."

Room door opened directly to breakfast room that means I was awake at least at 7 am when other guests startet with breakfast. I had to cross breakfast room for shared bathroom facilities. Height of room was maximum 1,7 meters. I could not stand upright in 70 per cent of the room. It was built underneath the street in front of the hotel.

Perfectly adequate for a short stay

Very small room, very old furniture, not nice bathroom. Breakfast was quite OK. Good location, about 20 min. to Big Ben. It was quite expensive for this kind of room...

Loved our stay here.It was so close to the Victoria station, the railway tracks were just beyond our window,but it was very nice to be in a big international city like London,and experience the mammoth sounds.The room was small but very cosy,and well-equipped.Location was most important,as we had lot of luggage,so it wasnt a problem wheeling our bags to the train station.Also,there were lot of fellow Indians,so felt good.

The rooms (especially toilet) aren't made for very tall or big people but apart from that really good conditions very friendly, helpful, and welcoming staff I was there to see London for a couple of days

My sister and I stayed here for 2 nights in a twin room en suite. They put us into the annex building a few doors down from the main hotel.the positive: it's very close to victoria station, and walking distance to Buckingham palace (20 minutes). breakfast was included, and the staff serving breakfast was quite nice and helpful. there was a mini fridge in the room and a small TV. Now onto the negative: We arrived around 5:30pm in the rain and there was no one at reception to let us in the building, we rang the bell for 10-15 minutes before they finally answered. While we were being checked in, a man who looked like a homeless person came into the small reception area and was eyeing us. that should have been our cue to leave, but I thought it would be okay. the room was TINY. we could barely move around in it. you had to climb over the bed to get to the bathroom, and the bathroom was a cupboard. It was like a toilet on a train. tiny. tiny. tiny. they gave us bath towels, but no hand towels. and everything in the bathroom gets wet when you shower because it's that small. the first night I slept fine, but the second night I didn't sleep very well at all, and didn't figure out until morning that it was because there were BED BUGS eating me up. I woke up with bites on my feet & legs and waist, but the worst was my arms, shoulders and back. I still have discoloration from the bites. I would not ever ever ever recommend this hotel to anyone. DO NOT STAY HERE.

The room was very small, with a small small bathroom, the sink was as big as my hand...a huge moquette not so clean a really small bed for 2 persons and right in front of the railway station...trains noise

Excellent location and really low price. We felt it very comfortable and it was easy to go anywhere walking or by public transport.A very good choice.

The room was very small and the toilet really tiny. If you're very fond of cleanness don't stay here. But the hotel is very close to the Victoria Station, has fridge and kettle inside the room, and not too bad breakfast, and at least sheets were clean. I recommend for price and placement.

Old hotel,a bit run down. But value for money in an area of London that is great.

The room was very close to dining area so we were woken around 7.30a.m. every morning with the noise which we didnt appreciate as we were there for a rest. The bathroom floor was always wet due to a leak and this meant you had to wear shoes or roll up your trousers to use the room.

I would say fairly good value for money, especially for the centre of London. The bed was neat with fresh bedding. The decor was quite dated and the room was very small. The carpet in the room needed vacuuming, and the television reception was poor (using an indoor aerial) The shared WC facilities were very small too! But overall not bad value for money

It was my first time in London. I felt very nice in the hotel, the location it's excellent for tourist because just 3 blocks from the victoria station where you take the trains and metro to get anywhere you want.

NEVER EVER STAY AT THIS HOTEL! When we arrived our room was rented out to somebody else (although we had received a booking confirmation) and the receptionist could not seem to care less. He failed to give any explanation and even refused to say his name! All that happened at 3 AM and all other hotels in the vicinity were full. This place is nothing similar to a hotel and should be taken out from all the websites!

i spent two days in london y I had what i´m looking for: a place to sleep and take a bath. i wasn´t cold. That was enough for me!!

especially the bathroom was very grotty

very durty room and very, very small. a lot of noice I do not go again in this hotel

¡¡NO RECOMENDADO!!El sábado por la mañana dejamos 100 Libras en la habitación del hostal Holly House y por la tarde no estaban. Sólo había una tarjeta para entrar a la habitación y la tenía yo. Mi novia y yo nos vimos muy apurados. La limpieza de la habitación corre a cargo de los trabajadores del hostal. Por tanto, presuntamente, alguien de ellos nos ROBÓ EN NUESTRA PROPIA HABITACIÓN. Vergonzoso.

Una mierda!La habitacion cutrisima.Los q llevan el hotel muy poco profesionales.Reservamos 3 noches y despues de pagarles nos dijeron q la 3º noche la teniamos q pasar en otro hotel xq tenian "problemas" y que o nos cambiamos d hotel o nos quedabamos en la calle.Nos sentimos estafados y tras intentar pedir explicaciones lo unico que ofrecian era otro "hotel similar" o nada.Y el otro hotel quedaba a una pateada de distancia. El desayuno de lo peor, con 4 mesas contadas para todo el hotel, y teniendo que desayunar sobre los restos que iban dejando los anteriores inquilinos.Ultrasucio, la moqueta sirve para cultivo de cualquier clase de germenes. Los hindues que llevaban el hotel me parecieron indolentes,muy poco amables y poco adecuados para trabajar en hosteleria. He estado en muchos albergues de europa y ninguno me causo tan mal aspecto.Lo desaconsejo.Ojala hubiera leido una opinion asi antes de ir, para no cometer ese error.

Great location! Very unpleasant boys on check-in desk, and in breakfast room. But our room was cleaned every day. Good budget hotel.

Shortcoming : Noisy. In between the Victoria Coach and rail station, I could hear the station annoncements. Tiny room but good enough for one BUT Perfect location at two minutes from the station rail and coach, central London, the price is for london very cheap, decent breakfast though a bit light ( no hot chocolate for kids for example and me in particular );

There where what appeared to be blood stains on the walls and cockroaches in my room on the final night, the hotel was disgusting and should be shut down

We stayed in a twin room that was located in another property, a few numbers up the street, and had breakfast in ANOTHER property in between. The breakfast was good, the room was really small, with two beds taking out 90% of the space and a built-in bathroom, tiny and smelly from the hotel's kitchen, but clean and working. No sat TV, and one of the bedlights didn't work. They gave us three towels (we were two), one of them stained... we used it to stuff the freezing air coming in from the window, and they changed it anyway. A cheap accomodation in the middle of everything, but we were there for just three days, and we were always out. If you're going to stay two weeks, you'd probably better look somewhwere else.

small room - but okay

Please, stay here only if you are in budget and need a central location! The first room they show to us was too small and dirty, dirty, dirty dirty dirty.... The second was just small and dirty...!

Stayed at Holly House on 19/11-21/11 and 23/11 2008. The rooms where ok only you wake up every time someone goes throw the entrydoor that slams a lot, otherwise I like it.

That was the smallest room I've ever seen. There were 2 beds, one cupboard, one fridge, one tv, one kettle. The bed linen was clean. The bathroom was very small. You should have seen the sink. No bathtube. The water drained in the floor. Still, the water was hot and the central heating was very good. Breakfast very poor. Th locatation - excellent. Just 2 minutes from Victoria Station. I might return to this property due to the fact that it is very cheap compared to other prices in London. At least you have your own room with your own shower.

The room is too small for two persons and the bathroom is really bad because they are no hot water. I will not use this bed and breakfast anymore.

I just wanted to add that i feld breakfast was a little bit poor.

Check out time is not 12:00 am. (10:00) The breakfast rather bird seed. The bath is small for a child. off.

very very bad

Great location and price which more than makes up for the hotels shortcomings. The room was basic and not really suitable for anything but sleeping.

Worst hotel I have ever been in.

For a central hostel at this price, you really cannot do much better. The service is friendly and efficient, the rooms were clean, and the breakfast was brilliant... so long as cornflakes are your choice of cereal. I highly recommend this as a hostel.

Very very poor, in the room it was impossible to stay in two apart inside the little small bed, for 1,5 person. Dirty.

I like the location of the hotel. That's actually the perfect. But that's quite a lot of money for the room under the stairs. And the breakfast is very poor. Add some cheese or salami.....

Los empleados del hotel eran bastante huraños; el desayuno, bastante pobre; la habitación, enana y no demasiado limpia (el cuarto de baño era diminuto y había una moqueta vetusta y llena de descosidos); la tele no se veía muy bien y no tenía mando a distancia; y lo peor de todo es que una noche volvimos al hotel y nos encontramos la puerta de nuestra habitación...¡abierta! Lo único positivo del hotel es su céntrica ubicación. ¡Ah! y además de todo esto, no hay ascensor, así que si tienes que subir la maleta al último piso, vas apañado (aunque a nosotros nos la subió un empleado del hotel, todo hay que decirlo). Si fuera tú, yo no iría.

hotel facility was ok. because price was cheap and location was very good. but just reception staff was really bad, no smile at all. I didnt feel any welcome.They should change the staff!!

Hello! I've heard that London was really expensive but not so much. This is the worst hotel I've never been but not the cheapest. It is really dirty and the rooms and beds are extremely small.The bathroom didn't have more than 1 m2, we couldn't close the door to have a bath. The breakfast was righ (orange juice,corn flakes, toast and coffee,milk or tea) and also the location. You have a water-heater in the room to make coffe but I don't recomend to use it (the iron inside is oxigenated). The fridge in the room is right. It is the cheapest bed&breakfast I could find in London but I wouldn't come back, I think It's worthy spend a bit more in a hotel to enjoy your holidays.

This was, without a doubt, THE worst hotel I've ever stayed in. It is in drastic need of modernisation. The reception area wasn't welcoming at all, in fact it looked more like the reception of taxi rank rather than a hotel. Whilst the size of the room wasn't an issue, the condition of it was very poor. It looked like nothing had been done to modernize or improve upon it since 1980. I was in room number 2 which was in the basement area - I could hear the person in the next room and as it was opposite the dining room (!) I could hear everyone making their way to that. From the appearance and quality of the rooms, it would appear that the clientele that Holly House Hotel caters to are dossers. It is in a fantastic location to the train station and looks very pretty on the outside but it is severely let down on the inside. I did in fact try to change hotels to the Comfort Inn but that was unfortunately full. I will definitely NOT be staying here again and will not be recommending it to anyone.

It was ok, but the bathrooms were very small and the showers terrible. the room was small but ok, and it was nice to have a fridge and a kettle in the room, besides a tv.

The room is very well situated, near Victoria Station. The room and toilet is very small and in reference of the cleaning is not as clean as you would wish (curtains and carpets basically). Quality/Price it is not bad in consideration of the higher prices of hotels in London.

Good place to stay for a budget traveller. Nice cozy building in the midst of typical ~19cent London architecture. Victoria Railway Station is very close, but noise wasn't so bad as one might expect. Easy connection to very city centre, actually OK distance even to walk (passing Buckingham Palace!). Typical historic pub just on the corner of the same street, good for last-minute beer :-) If need budget transfer to airports (mini bus 8 GBP), they depart from Victoria Coach Station, just 200metres off from hotel, very comfortable.

The location of this B&B is very good however the room was so small that I could barely turn around in it. The bathroom and showers were disgusting. The carpet looked like it hadnt been vacuumed in months.

It is not meeting a stardard as a hotel, the facilities are poor, and it is very old and dirty.

Un verdadero desastre. No soy de los que pide un hotel de 3 estrellas todos los días, y este es el peor en el que he estado en londres. ¡Ni se os ocurra ir! Está sucio, las habitaciones son microscópicas, y las instalaciones son un horror. A mí, el segundo día, me cayó agua desde el piso de arriba... para olvidar. Vale la pena pagar algo, más...¡en serio! No volveré en mi vida.

only recommend it for a 2-3 days sleepover

I would not return to this hotel, the price is pretty good for a place in london, but the quality of the room was in a very poor condition, paint coming of the wall and the room smelled like people had been smoking in it, while it was a smoke free room. The refrigerator was leaking and the room itself had the size of a small dorm room. The only real good thing about this hotel was the shower, nice and warm.

The room was disgusting. The toilet in the en suite leaked into the bathroom and left the whole room with an awful, overpowering smell. I would not recommend this 'hotel' to anyone.

For the price, it was what I expected- spartan surroundings. the bathroom was TINY- no shower curtain and everything got wet when you showered. We had a toilet leak overhead that came down the wall into out room- they quickly moved us. The wallpaper indicated this was not the first time it had leaked.

The hotel and staff were friendly enough and the continental breakfast was ok for what i wanted (as i was about to run the london marathon). The rooms were small and the ensuite facilities were smaller still. Overall i chose this hotel for it's location to the finish of the marathon and Victoria station.

I booked the Holly House but ended up staying at the Alexander House (same street) part of 6 B&B's managed by Holly House. I choose this property because of its price and its proximity to Victoria Tube and Bus Station for which it is perfect. On arrival, I upgraded to a room with shower and toilet. The very tiny room faced the train tracks and it was quite noisy. The carpet needs replacing. Breakfast is very basic.

Did what it said it would. Cheap and cheerful. Where else could you get B&B for £30 in central London in a reasonable hotel?

If you require somewhere cheap and cheerful close to Victoria station then this is just fine for a night or two. Bedroom was small but clean and we had a toliet and shower even though we paid for the most basis room with shared facilities.Not somewhere i'd recommend for a weeks holiday but if like us you need somewhere to crash close to Victoria to catch the Gatwick express then its location really is ideal as is only a 2 min walk.

The rooms were very unclean, there were stains on the walls and on the bedframes. There was mold in the bathrooms. And there were stains on the ceiling where they obviously had water damage.We had to change rooms because the electricity in our first room did not work. And the TV's in both rooms did not work. I would never stay there again and I will not reccomend it to any of my friends.

Perfect Situation for few days travellers, very clen and the employees very pleasant.

The Holly House offers good value for money. Compared to other accommodations in smilar locations in and around London, you will find all your needs for a short term satisfied for a fair price. Absolutely recommendable.

A good place, very well situated. Very close of Victoria Station and Buckinham Palace. It's my first time in London but I could repeat this hotel