Review: Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel (London)

Taken from Head For Points:

Regular readers will already know that I checked in to the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge hotel last week on the £27 promotion run by lastminute.com’s ‘Top Secret Hotels’ page. Amazingly, despite it being a third-party booking, I received Club Carlson points for the stay.

Why did I come here? Well, at £27 for two days of office space it was a viable alternative to working out of Regus. Secondly, this is a very popular Club Carlson redemption – I have redeemed this hotel twice for my brother and his family, although I never visited him there – and so of interest to readers. (It will become a less popular Club Carlson redemption when it jumps from 50,000 points per night to 70,000 on June 1st.)

The Park Plaza Westminster Bridge sits in the middle of a traffic island (oddly, not a major issue) directly opposite Big Ben and the House of Parliament across the river. You are adjacent to the London Eye, the London Aquarium and Waterloo station and all of the family restaurants etc that surround those two places. For a tourists, it is a great spot.

The rooms

The hotel is round. This means that the outer rooms are wedge shaped. There is also a strip of smaller rooms which run through the centre of the building – these obviously have atrium views and presumably little natural light.

As a Club Carlson Gold via my Amex Platinum card, I was upgraded to one of the studio rooms on the outside of the building. This was impressive and made clever use of the space. Nearest the window is the sleeping area:

with a very modern wardrobe:

and a TV opposite:

Then comes the bathroom (there is a full size shower as well but it is out of shot). Toiletries are from Elemis:

Then, the most interesting bit, a proper seating area:

and another TV:

It is quite homely. The quality of finish is excellent as you would expect from a relatively new hotel.

The facilities

As I didn’t stay overnight I did not try any of the restaurants. There is no shortage of options. As well as a handy café:

… there is also a sushi bar ….

…. a large main restaurant

with a big wine selection ….

…. and a large main bar. You are unlikely to go hungry or thirsty.

When it comes to leisure, there is an…..

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