Nickie C.
Yelp
I was a bit let-down in general by our visit to Threadneedles.
As a five star, I was expecting to feel like I was in a little slice of luxury. Instead, I just felt like I was in an adequate hotel.
Check-in was smooth, with a lovely person on reception. I liked that you got to sit down to check in and relax for a moment, and of course the beautiful dome and the lovely scented air help the atmosphere!
We had booked a discounted rate through a hotel app but we weren't treated like it at check-in. We headed over to the lift - which was quite tiny, if you're claustrophobic like me - and headed up to the third floor. We got a bit turned around in the spacious corridors and loved the signs at the doors with the lit up room number - until we found ours. We were down a little side corridor that immediately looked like a different place, room 317.
We went in and - meh. The room wasn't very large, which is fine, but it just wasn't great. The desk was on the same wall as the bed, so the desk was actually my bed side table - so if my other half wanted to use the desk, he'd be right next to me while I was sleeping. There was no view out the window, but that wasn't a big problem. The TV seemed pretty small but we managed. The closet door wouldn't stay shut so the light wouldn't go off - I eventually rearranged the extra pillows and stuff that were pressing on the door and fixed it. The mini bar set up was impressive but the cupboard it was in wouldn't shut all the way, either. The biggest let down was the bathroom. The sliding glass door was SO LOUD when it moved and didn't shut all the way - so all the noises and smells of the bathroom came into the bedroom. Not to mention that a glass door on a bathroom, even when frosted, means light in the room when someone else may be trying to sleep. Our box of tissues in the loo only had 3 tissues in it. The toilet roll holder was falling off the wall. The 'hot' on the hot tap was missing. The shower had no grab rail, and the anti-skid things on the base of the tub didn't extend to the back of the tub where you get in and out. It was actually quite hard to get out of the shower, as once it was wet it was all very slippery.
Check out was a pain. We had to wait - even though we just wanted an express check out - and when I asked to give my Marriott number, the person at check out was very rude and condescending about our cheap rate and said we wouldn't get any points - the message wasn't the problem, but the way it was delivered.
I'm sorry, but a pair of slippers and an overstocked minibar does not a five star hotel make. Had I come expecting a four star, I would have felt better about it all...