White Lodge

I arrived at the hotel.
Receptionist: «Do you have this?» She showed me a booking confirmation.
«No.»
“Do you have this?”
«No.»
“Do you have this?“
After the third time she finally understood that I wasn’t able to magically have it appear.
Then she handed me a form to fill out, which I did. One minute later she came back. «That’s for you to fill out.» She probably thought I didn’t know what to do with it. Then she noticed that the phone number wasn’t filled out.
«Can you give us a phone number?»
«No.»
“We need your phone number.”
«No.»
“Can you just give us a phone number?”
«No.»
“Can you give us an e-​mail address?”
«No.»
“We need a way to contact you in case of emergency.”
«There won’t be one.»
«Are you sure?»
«Yes.»
“Can you at least give us an e-​mail address?”
«No.»
Never mind the fact that I don’t understand what good an e-​mail address does in case of an emergency it is mind-​blowing to me how she tried to bully me into giving them a phone number. Right afterwards I cut my stay short and told her I wanted to leave after one night instead of eight. I guess to this day she doesn’t understand why I wasn’t willing to stay at the hotel longer.
Later she kept calling me «Mr. Arne» again and again, which is my first name. It eludes me how a person who has zero interpersonal skills and tries to bully a customer can be allowed to have contact to customers.
Then the hotel. Its furniture is so old and run down you’d think they got everything second-​hand. And my room had a shared bathroom, which wasn’t even mentioned anywhere. Mrs. Rude offered me an upgrade for 20 GBP per night which I refused. I ended up not staying a single night there.

Fair rates (especially considering the last minute booking) for 8 of us (104£x2). Free breakfast, but a check-​out around 10:30AM. Food/​restaurants within walking distance, as well as a five minute walk to/​from the overground Hornsey station for you to get to London easily. I don’t normally write reviews, but once I found out that we were supplied with primo toilet paper, I had to put in a good word somehow. Very kind host as well!

Kleines sehr typisches englisches Gasthaus, günstig, aber mit wirklich einladender Freundlichkeit. Ich hatte ein Einzelzimmer für 48 Pfund die Nacht, was wirklich günstig für London ist. Man konnte mit dem Bus in einer Strecke in die Londoner Inenstadt für 1,30 Pfund, das dauerte zwar eine Stunde, aber ich mag das Busfahren in London, das gehört einfach zum Urlaub dazu. Mein Zimmer war zwar sehr klein, aber hatte Waschbecken, TV und einen bezaubernden Blick über dei typisch englische Nachbarschaft.
Was ein echtes Manko ist, war dass es sehr hellhörig war. Als mein Nachbar in sein Zimemr ging hörte es sich an, als ob meine Zimmertür aufging und so konte ich nicht schlafen bis er auch endlich im Bett war, deswegen und weil es leider Toiletten und Bad nur auf dem Flur gab gebe ich nur drei Sterne. Ansonsten ist das Preis/​Leistungsverhältnis absolut ok. Das Frühstück war auch einfach aber reichlich (Toast, Marmelade, Käse, Obst, Cerealien) und sogar der Kaffee einigermasen genießbar ;-)