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Quality Hotel Paddington

Hotel Overview

Paddington townhouse in Victorian garden square Only 300 yards from the Heathrow Express train, this hotel is 3 blocks from Hyde Park and 1 half-mile from Oxford Street shopping. The 75 guestrooms are comfortably furnished in cobalt-blue fabrics, with satellite TV and individually controlled radiator heat. This six-story hotel has a bar and 24-hour front desk, and overlooks a mature garden, which is open daily.

Location

Bayswater (London)
This lively multicultural residential and business area borders Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens. Good shopping at Queensway, Portobello Road markets, and Oxford Street, all just minutes away. Major South Kensington museums also within walking distance across Kensington Gardens. Good choice of mid-price and budget restaurants and accommodations.

Property amenities

This hotel has central heating, an elevator to all six floors, and overlooks a garden square with mature trees, wooden benches, and small lawn. A buffet breakfast (fee) is served daily, and a bar/lounge is located off the lobby. Photocopying, fax, and secretarial services are available for a fee.

What to expect: Originally a row of Victorian townhouses, this intimate hotel overlooks a garden square featuring mature trees, wooden benches, and an inviting lawn. The yellow-and-white fac,ade features an entrance portico topped with flags and a balustrade. Renovated in 2003, the contemporary lobby displays clocks set to both London and New York time zones, reflecting the hotel's popularity with international travelers.

Amenity highlights: Renovations continue to modernize the hotel, which is centrally heated and wheelchair accessible. A hot and cold English and Continental breakfast buffet (fee) is served every morning in a pleasant ground-floor dining room. Mustard-colored wallpaper compliments the blue chairs, and each table is set with a small white porcelain vase of fresh flowers.

Insider tip: Fans of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan need walk only 700 yards to admire the statue in Hyde Park of the boy who never grew up. The route heads south from the hotel, passing Bayswater Road, where J.M. Barrie lived at No. 100. The statue is signposted at the park entrance.

Rooms

This small hotel provides 75 rooms with private bathrooms in various configurations. Non-smoking rooms on request.

Club Triple Room
Rooms with one double bed and two twin beds or three twin beds. Desk-size work surface. Ample mirrors. Stall shower in bathroom. Other features: modem Internet access; in-room safe.

Club Double
One double or two twin beds. Larger than other rooms and more recently renovated. Separate bathtub and shower. Desk-size work space. Ample mirrors. Other features: modem Internet access; in-room safe.

Standard double
Rooms with one double bed or two twin beds. Features: satellite TV, desk-size work surface and chair, ample mirrors, international direct-dial phone, in-room safe, modem Internet access, coffee/tea maker.