Westminster House Hotel

96 Ebury Street Victoria, London | Map and Directions

About Westminster House Hotel

ABOUT LONDON:
'...If only one state existed on earth, London would be its capital...' Napoleon Bonaparte

ABOUT OUR AREA: WHO LIVED HERE?
In and around our street, Ebury street, lived and worked many people of great historical influence in different fiels of life, to name some of them : Ian Fleming, Amadeus Mozart, Thomas Cubitt, Winston Churchill, Mahathma Ghandi, Jane Austen, Alfred Tennyson, Edith Evans, Oscar Wilde, George Moore, Joseph Conrad, Mary Shelley, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas McMelan, John Russell, Robert Peel, A.P Primrose,Lord Palmerston, Laurance olivier&Vivien Leigh, Neville Chamberlain, John Lubock, Edward Stanley, Henry Temple, Stanley Baldwin, Herbert Asquith, Aubrey Beardsley, Harold Nicholson, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Barbara Pym, Laura Ashley, Catherine Johnson, Steve Hackett,and so on and so on...

LOCATION AND HISTORY:
This small hotel is located in Westminster Victoria,part of central London,from which there is easy access to any airport or station of the capital.
Without any doubt,this is the most historical and the most touristic place in England. From our hotel there is only 3 minutes walk to Buckingham Palace and from 5 to 20 minutes walk to Big Ben,Saatchi Gallery,Tate Gallery, Victoria&Albert museum, King's College University, Westminster Abbey, Thames River, London Eye,Hyde Park, Harrods, Chelsea, Piccadilly Circus, National History Museum,Science Museum,etc.

The land where our hotel stands was sold in 1623 by King James 1st(1566-1625) to some wealthy families and kept on being sold over the years until it came in the hands of heiress Mary Davies who married in 1677 Sir Thomas Grosvenor... In 1825 the famous architect Thomas Cubitt was contracted by Lord Grosvenor to develop the whole area and sell it as residential properties... In 1947 our address was converted from a residential property into a Hotel.
We, the current owners,british family of french and greeck origins have had this hotel since 1997 and tried over the years,like the previous owners,not to modernize it but to keep it look traditional and old- fashion. Whilst this is not a luxury hotel, every effort is made to keep the rooms serviced dayly, so they are clean and comfortable. Therefore,we think they are offered at reasonable prices in this very expensive area of this expensive city.
Friendliness, help, assistance and hospitality are our principles in the way we deal with our guests because we feel some kind of personal approach towards them which goes beyond traditional business boundaries. For this reason most of our new guests leave our hotel with an excellent impression about us and about London.
You have the choice of rooms with private bathroom and some budget rooms with shared bathroom, requested mostly by students.

PLEASE READ THESE IMPORTANT NOTES BEFORE MAKING YOUR RESERVATION :
-We do not serve breakfast but we offer some refreshments free of charge served in the room.
-Upon arrival we hand you 2 keys which give you 24 hour acess into our hotel.
-On departure you can store your luggage for free.
-Fresh towels are supplied on a daily basis.
-Triple rooms in our hotel have 1 big and 1 small beds and not 3 single beds.
-The hotel has ground floor + 4 floors and there is no lift,our reception is on the basement floor. If you are an elderly,or have a problem climbing stairs please contact us after you have made your reservation to allocate you on a lower floor if availabile.
-We have no internet access in the hotel.
-Finally,rooms in british hotels are smaller in size compared to north american hotel rooms for example.

GUESTS COMMENTS:
Most of the comments and opinions written by some of the guests who stayed with us are true, including the harsh ones and we thank them for helping us change or improve things, our guests are our most important critics. But also some of the comments are much more exagerated, as some guests pay for the price of a small basic hotel but they expect the services of a 5 star hotel.
London is not only expensive but a city where it is really hard to find a harmony between the price,location and safety,hospitality and comfort. So we think we provide that to our guests. To be sure,please read all the comments.

Finally, wether you decide to stay with us or not,we wish you a pleasant stay in the foggy,the exciting and the mysterious city of London ! ! !