Hotel near Tower Bridge

[fullyautomatix]

Hi,

My client has just asked me if I could go on a course in London next week - would need a stay over on Weds 16th and Thurs 17th November. The course is being held "near Tower Bridge" - no exact details yet. Can anyone recommend a hotel nearby? Client rules probably mean that I shouldn't go over about £140 a night.

Cheers,
Normie

Something does not compute there.

[TykeMerc]

If only someone had thought of setting up websites where people could write comments on places they stayed.

Search results: tower bridge - TripAdvisor

Being cynical it's very easy to stack lots of positive comments on sites like those, I don't pay a lot of credence to them.

Much of the CUK congregation has similar requirements so I'd take a recommendation off here more seriously.

[RichardCranium]

The thing I find amusing about TripAdvisor is that a place can have page after page of good reviews, but there is always at least one person ranting that it was the worst place they've ever been

Ditto for the ActiveHotels site. Their reviews are convincingly real, especially since they can only be written by the person who made the booking.

Do you find it is usually an USAian couple doing the complaining? Presumably not enough bedbugs or cockroaches as they as accustomed to.

Sorry, I've gone

[d000hg]

I'd trust TripAdvisor over one person on CUK, if the place has a large number of reviews. Been fairly reliable for us.

I think it's Michael McIntyre does a joke on TripAdvisor... you see an average rating of 4/5 with page of glowing reviews, but you have to scan through until you find a review "there was a poo in my bed".

[cojak]

I review in laterooms.com and look in tripadvisor as well, but it's always a good idea to ask around, isn't it?

[Normie]

Something does not compute there.

Took me a few minutes to realise what you were getting at - yep, you're right, should have said 16th/17th February not November! My head must have still been spinning from my client actually offerring to send me on a training course. To top it off, now they've asked if I can go on another one the following Monday and Tuesday (same location).

Not bad for a direct contract - wasn't expecting to be trained

Thanks for all the recommendations - I'll look into the suggestions. I dont trust TripAdvisor, et al, one jot - my brother-in-law runs a B&B so I know exactly how genuine most of his glowing 5 start reviews are

Normie

[d000hg]

a)If you can't spot fake reviews you're not doing it right
b)If we assume that fake reviews are a systematic source of error (i.e. all hotels have them) then you'd for instance remove one star from all ratings and still expect the same hotels to be on top. No doubt SasGuru can fill in the mathematical rigour ()

You have to read some reviews, not just look at the rating though... we'd do a search and then read the ones that look good, it's fairly clear when a review is NOT fake.