Beaconsfield Hotel

This is a traditional Hotel, the staff are freiendly and for the price band well worth it, road can be noisy and bright all night, this is London!. This is a not a Hilton style hotel, the bar area is traditonal and a welcome change to the plasic fantasic bars found in hotel chains. Plenty of tea, coffee, cereal etc in the room. No cooked breakfast but the nearby cafe does breakfast for £3.50 for hotel guests. Harringay has a great mix of shop supporting the the Turkish community. Resturants were plentiful and good value. Local deli's - great for Turkish delight and hot roasted nuts of all types.

Since we last stayed there last (in June 2011), a lot of work has been done on The Beaconsfield's rooms. They are good value in a terrific proper London pub; much better than any hotel or pub chain. The staff we found to be friendly and helpful. Haringey is not an upmarket part of London but The Beaconsfield is a very pleasant place to stay. And the packets of cold orange juice in the fridges in the rooms a welcome touch on a rare hot weekend.

While all the staff were fine and technically the hotel served it's purpose, I would not recommend this hotel to others. The "included breakfast" was a small box of Cornflakes and one day it wasn't delivered. The room desperately needed a vacuum and the bed sounded like it needed tightening (and I wasn't up to anything!). There is no wardrobe space of any desription to put your clothes and even the staff will admint "the reception is crap", so no TV. On the plus side it's right opposite a Sainsbury's and has free wi-fi - not good enough for Skype calling, but good enough for general browsing.

Rooms where 1 bed each while I had booked rooms with 2. One room was without window, without single chair and without table. No showers and toilets in rooms. Internet does not work.