Strand Palace

Terrible experience in this hotel. Our family has two rooma for 7 nights paying premium costs. No air condition is middle of summer! Rooms are small with less style and character than my boys' college dormitories. Rooms reminded me of a very nice hostel with private bath. We were not warned that most rooms have no AC. Management said it shoild have been clear from travel agent and website. It was NOT. And given number of complaints at desk others had same issue. Our room was very loud. Dumpster were emptied daily just outside our room at 4am (city) and 6am (construction contractor). Complaints were essentially ignored. Rooms and public spaces desperately need updates which I guess will be completed in 2019. Free breakfast plentiful but unimagined and served with style of army barracks.
On the positive side, location is fantastic for major sites and running in Royal Parks.

Just a block away from Covent Garden, a lot of tube stations nearby. The Hotel is very good, after its recent renovation the rooms have become smaller but are more modern in decoration. I usually stay at a Club room which has LCD TV, Ideal Standard WC and very nice robes.
Its breakfast is among the best for a 3 star hotel.

Sitting right in the middle of the Strand, just across the road from the Savoy, The Strand Palace is an eight floor hotel which is about as close to the theaters as it's possible to be (so long as that theater is the one currently showing Joseph).

Despite the very shiny reception area, and the coated doorman opening the unfeasibly heavy front doors, it is however far from a palace. The hallways are quite shabby, with the plywood panel doors being badly scratched and the carpets looking pretty tired. The rooms are densely packed, and it's quite noisy.

My room is a "deluxe double" and is about twelve square with a small bathroom attached. It does have proper wooden shutters through which help keep out the noise of the street below more than curtains would be.

So, its far from a luxury stay, and for the same money you could stay in some much nicer places, but probably not quite as handy for the city centre.

So basically it's OK, just a bit shabby.