The St Giles hotel in London sits so squarely in the middle of everything that it has dispensed with glamour, offering a location and a firm handshake.
LONDON – Hospitality observers have confirmed that the St Giles hotel in London occupies a position so aggressively central that it has dispensed with glamour entirely, offering guests instead a superb location and a brisk, businesslike handshake.
St Giles Hotel In London: Location First, Frills Never
The practical, well-placed hotel near Tottenham Court Road, within striking distance of the West End, the British Museum and Soho, has been described by the Bureau of No-Nonsense Lodging as “the hotel equivalent of a sensible pair of shoes.”
“Guests sometimes arrive at the St Giles hotel in London expecting marble and a harpist,” said a spokesperson for the Institute of Functional Hospitality. “There is no harpist. There is, however, the entire centre of London approximately forty seconds from the front door. Once guests grasp that they can walk to everything, the missing harpist troubles them not at all.”
What The St Giles Hotel In London Offers
The hotel – detailed on its official site, listed by Visit London and reviewed by Time Out London – trades on an unbeatable location, clean comfortable rooms, and the simple promise of being right in the thick of it.
A survey by the Bureau found that 91 percent of St Giles hotel in London guests stop caring about luxuries the moment they realise the West End theatres are a short stroll away, and that the remaining 9 percent simply wanted somewhere to leave their bags before dinner.
“The St Giles hotel in London knows exactly what it is,” the spokesperson explained. “It is the middle of London with a bed in it. You do not come here to be pampered. You come here to be unbeatably, gloriously central, and then to go out and actually do things.”
The Bureau confirmed the St Giles hotel in London remains a shrewd choice for the practical traveller, ideal for anyone who values walking to everything over being serenaded by a harp they did not order.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
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