Holiday Inn Kensington Forum Hotel

If you got this place via Priceline you will love it, if you paid rack rate you will hate it. Great location, freshly renovated, very small rooms, anonymous hotel, acceptable service. Two notes: 1. Do NOT accept a room on the 25th floor. You'd think you would love the view. Instead you will be confronted with a smelly guest kitchen where people microwave their stuff. The entire floor reeks! 2. The Sunday Jazz Brunch from 12:00 to 3:00 is a bargain at the regular rate of 22.00 Pounds, hotel guests get it at the amazing price of 15.00 Pounds. For that price you get a glass of champagne, half a lobster and a wonderful hot and cold buffet. The buffet is great with salads, smoked fish, shrimp etc. The hot items including a carvery station are delicious. A wide range of desserts including a good selection of ice cream is included. The jazz combo is very nice, the place is a venue for middle class folks to celebrate birthdays, engagements etc. Very nice, very English athmosphere.

I also booked this hotel via Priceline and received an awesome deal for 11 nights (60$!) The room was very clean and efficiently laid out, although having to make due with the limited room in the refrigerator was kind of a bummer, we made the most of it! The location couldn't be better in my opinion. Safe neighborhood, lots of choices as far as restaurants and cafe's are concerned. After reading several reviews about the hotel's restaurant, we avoided eating there altogether! I would assume they charge these exorbitant prices since a large portion of the clientele is either business type, or airline employees on expense accounts! Despite this, my husband and I found this hotel to exceed our expectations, and would certainly stay again should the opportunity arise!

Price and location can't be beat. Hotel is only a short one and a half blocks from Goucester Underground Station. I suggest you turn right and not go on Cromwell to the hotel. Its a shorter walk inspite of the Cromwell address. Hotel is clean, a little tight by American standard, international staff at front desk, lots of lifts to get to your floor, quite rooms, good plumbing, modern bathroom, don't open the refrig. because it has sensor to count how many times you open it for beverage service, nice area, near Starbucks, pastry shops, fast foods, supermarket, walking distances to Kensington Palace, London Natural Science Museum, Harrods, Victoria Albert Musuem, pubs, and what else could you ask for. The price for triple cost me 76 pounds at the height of the tourist season. Will return to the hotel if we come to London again. Highly recommended.

We got an awesome deal on priceline for this hotel and for what we paid it was excellent! so close to the tube station and the rooms were very nice and clean. our air conditioner leakes in one room so they moved us right away which was very nice. the only bad part is the restaurant. it is way overpriced so dont eat there! for breakfast for two was 30 pounds which is around $60 US dollars and it was pretty small! so go to the cheaper places around the hotel. We will definitely stay there again though!

We expected the room to be small and it was. Other than that, everything was very nice. Attentive and helpful staff, nice English breakfast offered, close to the Underground, and always taxis waiting out front. The hotel pub is adequate, if pricey, but there is a real pub a block away with a lively crowd. Certainly more than worth the amazing deal we got on Priceline, and we would not hesitate to stay here again.

In June I was at this Holiday Inn in Kensington, chatting with friends in bar at the hotel lobby. I had my bag beside the chair in whicj I was sitting. When I got up to go, the bag was gone. Called the hotel security who had captured the theft on CCTV...only problem was that nobody monitors the video! Video caught the whole act in progress and it seems like thieves constantly work that area, waiting until individuals are distracted so that they can make off with bags, laptops etc. While theft can occur anywhere, the fact that the CCTV is not monitored, be very careful of your personal belongings when in the lobby of this hotel. There are no notices posted to warn guests, visitors of this.

I am writing this review to both thank the hotel and staff, and let readers know that this is a hotel you can rest assured is top-notch. My family stayed in 2 connecting rooms this July and had outstanding customer service. We did not use the restaurants in the hotel so I can't comment on that, but I can say that the hotel provided us with everything we asked for. The rooms were also very clean and well-appointed. As said by others, an absolutely excellent location, on tube lines that will get you to just about anywhere. We don't normally stay in mainstream hotels so we were very pleasantly surprised and would not hesitate to recommend this hotel.

I concure with everything thats been said here before about this hotel. I was there two nights on business and paid 115 GBP not including breakfast. I found the room size to be acceptable athough I was one person traveling alone. Found the breakfast good but way over priced you are better off grabbing aomething at the supermarket nextdoor. My only beef with this hotel is, they have no pool or at the least, a small sauna or hot tub. I feel that for a hotel that continually boasts about being the "tallest hotel in London" and the " tall Holiday Inn in the World" the very least they could do is spring for a hot tub somewhere on the property.

We just returned from a 10 day stay at the Holiday Inn Kensington Forum. This was our third trip to London, and we were still looking for just the right hotel for us. Based upon the reviews here in Trip Advisor, we decided to try this hotel, and we've now found the one where we will stay on return visits. We found absolutely everything to be to our liking. Everyone on staff went out of the way to be friendly and helpful. The room was very comfortable, very well-designed, and spotlessly clean. The food was delicious in both the Consortia and Forum restaurants in the hotel. The location could not have been better with being so close to the Underground station and near good restaurants, grocery stores, post office, pharmacy, Internet cafe....just perfect. The price was right, and we were even told by an English tour guide that we had gotten a very good deal. We enjoy travel and this is definitely one of the best ever hotel experiences for us.

My husband and I returned yesterday from a wonderful 7 night/8 day stay at the Forum. The hotel is perfectly situated 1 short block from the Gloucester Road underground station. It is also adjacent from a small shopping center which includes the Waitrose supermarket (which also has a wonderful deli for take-out), Garfunkles restaurant, and Boots pharmacy. Starbucks, a photo developing shop, several pubs, market and several restaurants are located within a two block radius. The hotel is set in an absolutely ideal location, offers great rates, and excellent conceirge (ask for Alan). This is the place to stay in London!!!