Cottisford Holidays

As of August 2026 the entire hotel is wrapped in scaffolding and mesh, which blocks all views facing the lovely park in the front. Since they are still selling upgraded rooms with “garden views” this feels very misleading. In fact I woke up to 2 construction men standing directly 1 foot outside my windows on the second floor, talking loudly at 8am and getting ready for their work. Since there is no AC in the rooms, I had the windows wide open and suddenly was naked in my bed with workers staring in. Not cool. When the construction isn’t happening this would be a perfectly fine place to stay. 2 mins from paddington on a cute park, and feels like an old boarding house with some good character. I hate staying in soulless Hyatt place type hotels, so I like quirk and charm. The bathroom is the size of a cruiseship bathroom and all plastic, in fact it seems like some kind of pre-fab pop in RV bathroom. Odd. Anyway, for 1 or 2 nights, minus the construction, go for it. But there are like 6 identical hotels lining this park and the others don’t have scaffolding on them so you should stay in one of those or call this hotel and double check the remodel is finished up. In the meantime can the hotel warn guests that at 8am there will be men standing outside their windows?! The front desk lady was kind at check in…

The location of the hotel was great and very close to the main attractions in London. The cleaning service was top notch. The lobby staff were not very helpful as the revolving door was out of service quite a few times in our stay. It would have been nice to have an ice machine on the floors. We had to go to the bar to get a cup of ice. It would have been nice to order off a menu at the restaurant instead of just getting the buffet breakfast every morning. Overall we thoroughly enjoyed our stay.

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