Blue Sapphire Hotel

Good hotel on the outskirts of London but with a tube station 100 meters away and 30 minutes from central London. The building must have been a bank in the past because it has a covered hole in the façade of an old ATM. It is on the corner of the main street of a Hindu neighborhood and a somewhat dark alley. Even so, the area does not give a feeling of insecurity, even at night. The facilities are quite new and it has a 24-hour reception. The staff only speak English and they were understanding of a cash issue at check-in. We agreed that the payment would be in cash but we had problems with the three ATMs near the hotel, so they allowed us to store our bags in one of the three reserved rooms (at about 11 in the morning when check-in was at 2:00 p.m.), go to the center for our scheduled visits and pay the payment at night. The rooms are a bit small but that must be normal for London (I haven't seen more). The bathroom, according to each room, has a larger or smaller shower and has an electric towel rail (ours in particular did not work but we did not mind since we had a plug-in heater). The room has an individual air conditioner that works properly. Breakfast is in the basement and has hot (a kind of fritata, scrambled egg, sausages and English beans) and cold (cheese, pastries, yogurt, tea, sliced bread with toaster...). In addition, after commenting on lactose intolerance, they were in charge of bringing soy milk for that person the next day. Nearby there are a lot of restaurants, KFC, Subway, MC and a pub with kitchen service. The hotel was clean and if you don't hand over the room keys in the morning and ask for cleaning, they don't do it. The wifi worked well both in speed and extension and the last day that we left later they allowed us to leave our bags at the reception guarded until the time of collection. As strange things we saw, in the breakfast basement there was NO microwave to heat the milk (the employee in the kitchen heated it for us) and there was no cocoa (yes, coffee and tea). And as the only negative point, the windows do not insulate the noise at all, so being on the main street the night noise bothered a bit. Without a doubt if we were to return to London we would count on this hotel.