Hotel Sophia

The location was good provided you don't mind the station tannoy, and I didn't (that's how close the hotel is to the station).

The room was really dirty. I've stayed in a lot of budget hotels and this was by far the dirtiest. There was a big smear of what looked like blood on the wall, and a hole in the plaster had been covered by a postcard. The floor did not appear to have been hoovered and there were hairs in the bed. The mattress was atrocious.

The location

I felt conned and had to go and find somewhere else to stay so it turned out to be a very expensive mistake! I expect even a budget hotel to be clean and functional. This was neither. There was chewing gum stuck to a shelf and though the bedding was clean, the rest of the room wasn't great with coffee stains, etc. Worse than that was the fact that the kettle was on a very rickety table so I nearly burnt myself. There was no remote for the TV so I could only turn it on by standing on the bed which I nearly fell off. It was covered in dust and I could not change channels. The pillows were so thin that they may as well not have them and there were screws sticking out of the tiles in the shower. Really angry that this was the case. Oh and the cigarette smoke from the room next door was overwhelming so I can't see that the smoke detector there was working.