Curzon House

Abysmal
What a dive! My eight-room dorm was tiny, with barely enough room to squeeze our luggage in beside the bunks. The promised "en-suite" consisted of a filthy bath and a sink. The two essential features of an en-suite -- the shower and toilet -- weren't even located on the same floor! The carpet on the stairs was held in place by duct tape and the handrail had broken in places -- a definite concern! Breakfast is ordinary (cereal and coffee, just don't expect milk to go with either of them). Luckily there's a twenty-four-hour Sainsbury's nearby, so it's easy to skip the provided breakfast and sort something out for yourself. It's also very close to the tube and within easy walking distance of the V&A, Natural History Museum etc so there's no need to spend any more time than absolutely necessary in the shabby hostel.

Stayed here for one month.
I stayed here for one month. It was a laid back atmosphere but people always willing to go to the pub, which is only a few minutes' walk! Good location, nice and central. Helpful staff except for the girl that lives and works there. Very sour person! They don't clean it very often and there's an alcoholic bloke that lives there and urinates in the room.

Staff are lovely, extremely clean. Not a single cockroach, mice or anything to be seen. Would definitely be back here next time I am in London.

Don't bother with this place. It's dirty and has many cockroaches and mice, noisy, smells terrible, and has nothing to offer. not worth your money at all. I'm not fussy but the atmosphere is off putting, the staff need to pick up their act.

The Curzon is great -- and gets better every time i go back. I first stayed there in 2003 and go back every time i'm in London. It is perfectly situated -- right in the middle of Zone 1, straight down the road from hyde park. Sure the place is old, but it gets regular maintence -- i should know. It's different every time i go there. But one thing stays the same -- the great atmosphere. As soon as you walk in the door you feel at home. The staff are friendly and will help in any way that they can - and the people are met there are what made my time in London so memerable and made me want to keep coming back. The lounge room and kitchen are great social areas -- perfect for meeting poeple. And the place is definitely clean - no cockroaches. Haven't seen any during any of my four visits. It's not a five-star hotel but it's definitely a great hostel, and i will keep coming back.

The Curzon has a fantastic social atmosphere with great staff, but they should really do more to keep it reasonably clean. The place is infested with cockroaches! I'm not a picky snob, and I'm not afraid of slumming it to save a few pennies, but this is unacceptable. I stayed for two and a half weeks in June/July 2004 and they only cleaned it once during that time (they sent notes round the dorms, warning everyone that they were doing a "Big Clean"). Come on, this just isn't on! I'm giving it an extra star because of its friendliness. But if they don't sort out the cockroach problem and get closed down, they'll have no-one to blame but themselves.

Stayed at Curzon on and off in June 2004 and looking up the site and seeing the photos of the dear old place made me look forward to staying again this year. Yes it is grubby, noisy and old and situated perfectly, fun to be at and with fantastic staff.

The Curzon House rocks. I stayed there for about 5 weeks at the end of last year, and the staff were friggin wicked.

Curzon House was crap - I stayed for only one night back in the begginning of May 05. Luckily, I only paid for the first night when I checked in and so checked out the next day because I couldn't take it. The place was dirty, damp, dingy, musty and moldy smelling. It is one of the worst hostels I've ever stayed at. The staff were mostly friendly, yet did not put my girlfriend and I in the same room. Despite the booking we made a month earlier (at which time we were assured of the same room). Bathrooms were old and dirty though they were attempting to make the bathrooms nicer by painting them (should have started by cleaning the floors). The dorm rooms were dark, cold, dingy and had cockroach-like bugs crawling across the floors. All in all, don't go here, it'll put you in bad spirits for your visit to London.

I cannot believe that the description written on this site corresponds to the same Curzon House Hotel I stayed at some days ago. It has nothing to do with it! The Curzon's rooms and bathrooms are really untidy and old, and nobody here seems to care about order and cleanliness. I'm sorry, but I wouldn't recommend this hotel to anybody.

I stayed at the Curzon in June and found the place to be really fun and friendly. Great location, too! The place is old, but we are in London and everything is. The staff are awesome, and I didn't want to leave. They organise weekly events. The Monopoly Pub Crawl was a blast!

The hostel staff are really what make the place. I stayed there at Easter in 2004, and the staff put on a breakfast and decorated the kitchen. It was fantastic, and helped all the travellers really get right into the spirit. The place is old and run-down. All the guests were great. It's definitely a place I will visit again.

The area where the hostel is situated is great, but the hostel is old and not clean at all. The bedlinens were dirty (some footprints on them), there was dust and sand everywhere and we had some mice running around in our room. The staff is friendly but they definitely should clean the room every day and not only once a week! It would be a great place to stay if it were cleaner.