Base2Stay Kensington Apartments

Introduction: The Base2Stay Hotel Kensington occupies a location slightly to the West of the centre of London. The aparthotel opened in April 2006 after being re-branded and modernised. Situated between South Kensington and Earls Court, Courtfield Gardens and the surrounding roads are very much residential and upmarket in nature and of Victorian and Georgian type townhouses. Having said that the almost adjacent Cromwell Road is one of the major rods into London. Its actually part of the A4 and gives direct access out to Heathrow Airport and the M4. You'll also find it makes hailing black taxi very easy as there's ways many taxis going into and out of London via this road. There are plenty of shops in the nearby local roads including a Sainsbury's supermarket on Cromwell Road and a major shopping street along Earls Court Road just to the West of the hotel. There's a good selection of bars and restaurants locally including places that serve breakfast. A well known private hospital, the Cromwell Hospital, is just a 200 yard walk to the North. The two exhibition centres in this part of London are close by at Earls Court (0.4 miles) and Olympia (0.8 miles). Other nearby attractions include Linley Sambourne House (0.6 miles), Natural History Museum (0.6 miles), Hyde Park (0.7 miles), Leighton house museum (0.7 miles), Science Museum (0.7 miles), Kensington Palace (0.7 mile), Royal Albert Hall (0.8 miles) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (0.8 miles).
Hotel:
Base2Stay advertises itself as hybrid between a budget hotel, boutique hotel and and an apartment. This mean the services you really need are included while extras such as a bar and onsite restaurant are not included. The building itself is a converted townhouse. The hotel was totally refurbished after being re-branded and is modern and contemporary throughout. The aparthotel has a no smoking policy throughout though a few smoking rooms are available on request and subject to availability.
Apartments are all serviced studios and features include individually controlled air-conditioning, wall mounted flat screen cable TV (includes internet access, music files, games and pay-to-view movies), Ethernet internet connection, direct dial telephone with voicemail, safe, windows that open, spare power points, microwave, coffee pot, fridge and kitchenette. The TV is also part of the hotels online directory with lists of local stores and restaurants where you can order takeaways food and deliveries of other items. All bedrooms have en-suite facilities which may be a bath, wet rooms or large power shower and have supplied toiletries along with a hairdryer. Beds come with comfortable duvets. Rooms also have a desk with a workstation just below the TV. Rooms are also decorated with works of art by Peter Lavery. Its also worth noting that the beds are deliberately designed to allow luggage storage underneath to make the most of available room space.
Maid service every day.
Room configurations include singles, bunk beds for 2, standard doubles and twins, superior doubles (larger than standard), deluxe rooms and rooms that accommodate 3 adults. Some rooms come with a futon for an extra guest.
A base breakfast box (charge), iron and ironing board can be requested and the hotel has onsite vending machines. The hotels reception is open 24 hours. Lift access to rooms.