Detailed Review
The accent is on providing freedom of choice for every guest. base2stay blends aspects of boutique hotels with serviced apartments to offer a synthesis of what guests really want and use. All 67 rooms have their own mini kitchen with microwave and fridge, offering any number of alternatives to conventional hotel room service and dining, whilst the flat screen televisions provide satellite channels, 30 pay-per-view films, music and free internet. all studio apartments are also equipped with 2mb high speed broadband internet service.
base2stay, Central London's first edited service hotel, next to a Kensington garden square, has been interior designed from a classic white stucco townhouse and mews, providing guests with fantastic air-conditioned rooms with excellent facilities. Whether your stay is for business or leisure, base2stay has been designed with your comfort and convenience in mind. base2stay is a non-smoking hotel.
base2stay's evolutionary approach offers choice and value. Whether it's a short or extended stay, using the in-room internet or direct dial phones, the 'base directory' makes it easy for guests to order from a wide range of services and meals, delivered to base2stay. It couldn't be simpler - order in, take out, shop or book - you choose. base2stay gives you all you need to sleep, eat, work and play in London.
Press Quotes
"The idea behind base2stay is that they have taken the best elements of a serviced apartment plus boutique and budget hotels and created accommodation perfect for one night or a fortnight."The Sunday Times 07
Independent Reviews
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“The home-from-home in South Kensington trades in lavish, unnecessary extras to offer unbeatable value in the capital city.”
TI's top pick for value in London: smart rooms with kitchenettes, good bathrooms, flatscreen TVs and internet access, decently located, for under 100 quid - beat that.
base2stay
By Brendan Sainsbury
An intriguing cross between a boutique hotel and a West End apartment building, base2stay – situated just off the Earl’s Court Road on the Kensington border – is conclusive proof that small can be beautiful and London accommodation can be affordable.
Nestled in a traditional white stucco townhouse and furnished with user-friendly Ikea-style fittings, this new departure in the contemporary urban hotel world – referred to interchangeably as ‘hip budget’ or ‘affordable luxury’ – mixes everyday convenience with high-class comfort. The rooms may be small – very small - but, with free internet service, individual kitchenettes, all weather air-conditioning, and well-maintained, cutting-edge, surgically clean bathrooms, who’s complaining?
The real benefit for savvy travellers is the price. Base2stay has pared its traditional hotel offerings (whirlpool baths, room service and antiquated trouser presses) down to a minimum; there’s no five-star pampering but it’s not short on style, quality and value for money.
The rooms
Boasting a total of 67 rooms in six different price brackets, Base2stay’s collection of compact and creative ‘hotel apartments’ is kitted out with all of the standard West End amenities, plus plenty more besides. Quality features include buffed up king-sized beds, easy-to-operate microwaves, spacious fridges, wafer-thin plasma TV screens, comfy modern armchairs, and a music system containing over 1,500 tracks.
Every inch of space is used. Extra storage is provided under the bed, the TV doubles up as an internet station and the improbably tiny ‘kitchen’ tidies away into a cleverly disguised bedroom cupboard that hides all tell-tale evidence of the dirty dishes.
The verdict
One of London’s funkiest and most fairly-priced accommodation options. It’s the perfect place to curl up with a TV dinner after a long hard day sightseeing in the bustling West End. A Sainsbury’s micro-waved chicken tikka has never tasted so good.
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