Hotel in Detail:
The Crowne Plaza London Kings Cross hotel has 405 rooms on 8 floors with 6 suites. The hotel offers a full range of services from meeting rooms, dining facilities to a leisure centre with a spa, swimming pool and gym.All rooms have individually controlled air-conditioning. Bathrooms will have either a standalone shower or a bath shower combo along with a hairdryer. In-room amenities include free WiFi, flat screen TV with PPV channels, tea/coffee making facilities, trouser press, desk, ironing facilities, seating area, telephone, radio, mini fridge and electric kettle.
Free WiFi is available in all bedrooms.
Room service is provided between the hours of 06.30 and 22.30.
Dining: The hotel has two restaurants and a bar.
Belgo Restaurant: Ground Floor restaurant open for lunch and dinner. Specialising in rope grown, grit free, sustainable mussels from the Shetland Islands. Traditionally served in the Belgian way in mega mussel pots and cooked to order with frites and mayo, there are 12 mussel flavours to choose from. Also on the menu is a range of Belgian classics including secret recipe Liege meatballs, burgers, whole rotisserie chicken to share and steaks. 62 Belgian craft beers are offered.
Open noon till 23.00.
Bloom Kitchen and Bar: Also located on the ground floor and open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Inspired by a love of gin and passion for food, Bloom Kitchen and Bar pays homage to the famous artistic set, The Bloomsbury Group. It provides a destination for people who enjoy great food, good drinks and a cosy setting. An exciting artisan menu and a wide selection of main courses and along with salads and pasta. A specialist gin cocktail menu has been crafted to complement the concept.
Open 06.30 till 01.00
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A major feature of the Crowne Plaza London Kings Cross is the onsite health and leisure centre (charges apply) with an indoor swimming pool. The leisure centre facilities include a Jacuzzi, sauna and steam room. The gym has a wide range of exercise equipment including cardio machines, resistance machines and free weights. There is also a separate spa facility open 10.00 till 20.00 where treatments include Manicures and Pedicures, Facials, Waxing and Body Scrub.
The public areas of the hotel are all air-conditioned.
Hotel services include a Concierge, Dry Cleaning Pickup and Laundry, Florist, Foreign Currency Exchange, Gift Shop and shoe shine. Safety deposit box facilities are available at the front desk which is manned 24 hours.
The Crowne Plaza Kings Cross has 4 meeting rooms which can accommodate up to 240 guests reception style. Available facilities include 35mm Slide Projector, Cable Modem, Digital Projector, Flip Chart and Markers, LCD Projector, Microphone, Modem Lines, Overhead Projector, VCR and Whiteboard.
There is also a dedicated business centre where services available include Copy and fax, computer with internet access and Mobile Phone Rental.
Hotel Vicinity:
Nearest: Tube Station: King"s Cross Thameslink 0.4 miles (0.7 km), Railway Station: London Kings Cross 0.5 miles (0.8 km), DLR Station: Tower Gateway 2 miles (3.3 km), Motorway: M1 Junction 1 5.9 miles (9.5 km).The Crowne Plaza London Kings Cross is a short distance from four mainline stations at St. Pancras and Kings Cross (0.5 miles), Euston (0.8 miles) and Farringdon (0.6 miles). Well located to be close to the City of London, the square Mile as its known (1.2 miles), with good access also into central London. There are many smaller shops and cafes in the vicinity, notably further down along Farringdon road and to the North along Euston Road around the Kings Cross Station, area while within half a mile is the major shopping area of Angel Islington. Here you will find a host of shops, bars, restaurants as a well as a market and cinema. If you'd rather head towards central London then Tottenham Court Road and Oxford street are just 1 mile (1.6 km) away. Oxford Street is probably the number one shopping street for visitors too London. Its a long road with endless stores and boutiques and has the most dense shopping area in Europe. The hotels location tends to be quieter during weekends at its on the City side of the capital. The Crowne Plaza London Kings Cross hotel makes a good location for anyone needing to get to both the City of London as well as the central areas. Nearby local attractions include Dickens House (0.2 miles, 0.3 km), British Library (0.5 miles, 0.8 km), Sir John Soames Museum (0.6 miles, 1.0 km), British Museum (0.7 miles, 1.1 km), Petrie Egyptian Archaeology Museum (0.9 miles, 1.4 km) and the Museum of London (1 mile (1.6 km)).
History: Was called the Holiday Inn Kings Cross/Bloomsbury until February 2017.
Parking: (limited, 15 spaces) (chargeable)
Bedroom Numbers: 405 / 8 floors
Check-in: 14.00 (2 pm)
Check-out: 13.00 pm
This hotel has averaged a score of 3.9 out of 5 by 9911 past guests
Booking. com (average customer rating 4 out of 5 from 5398 reviews)
>>>Tripadvisor (ranked 353 of 1162 for hotels in London and rated 3.8 out of 5 from 4513 reviews)
Parking:
Private parking is possible on site (reservation is not possible) and costs £32.50 per day.Internet:
WiFi is available in all areas and is free of charge.Pets:
Pets are not allowed.More hotels from this chain
If you would like to stick with the Crowne Plaza chain your nearest options are:
Hyatt Regency London Blackfriars: is 1.0 miles (1.7 km) away, has a guest satisfaction score of 89% and rates start from about £229.
Crowne Plaza London Docklands: is 5.9 miles (9.5 km) from here, earns a customer rating of 83% and base rates begin at about £118.
Crowne Plaza Ealing - Hanger Lane: 7.8 miles (12.5 km), rated at 81% and with rates from around £87.
Compared to other London hotels: This hotel has been rated 78% by past guests. The London average is 80% and the average for 4 star hotels is 82%. Therefore this hotel is below average for its sector (star rating) . Crowne Plaza Hotels across the chain average 82% so this hotel is slightly below the guest rating for most Crowne Plaza hotels.
Milesfaster ranking: 635th from 853 London hotels, 10th of 10 Crowne Plaza Hotels, and 283rd of 341 four star rated hotels.
Another to Consider:
Another hotel that is much like the Holiday Inn Kings Cross/Bloomsbury Hotel and not too far
(0.4 miles, 0.7 km) would be the 4 star Doubletree by Hilton Angel Kings Cross,
where prices begin from around £140 and which has an 84% guest satisfaction rating. The Doubletree by Hilton Angel Kings Cross also offers: free WiFi.
We can also point you towards a lower price option, the The Zetter Bloomsbury. 0.7 miles
from the Crowne Plaza Kings Cross (1.1 km), achieving a rating of 70%
by its past clients with base rates starting at about £49. Can we suggest something with a higher guest score? We suggest the 4 Star The Suites - St Pancras Hotel Group seems like a possible option. The Suites - St Pancras Hotel Group is only 0.4 miles (0.7 km) away. The Suites - St Pancras Hotel Group has a perfect unblemished customer rating 100%, a truly stunning achievement.
Local hotels analysed:
The fifty hotels that are closest to this location (1 Kings Cross Road, WC1 postcode) which we list extend for a 0.7 miles (1.2 km) radius. They are made up of 5 five star hotels (average rating 86%), 21 four star hotels (average rating 81%), 17 three star hotels (average rating 74%), 5 two star hotels (average rating 75%) and 2 one star hotels (average rating 57%). Top rated of the local hotels is The Suites - St Pancras Hotel Group (4 star) at 100%.Base Rates: Base rates can indicate the lowest available rates for a particular hotel. This is a good general guide but as base rates do not account for special offers and one off deals they can only be a rough guide.
Of the 50 closest hotels analysed we have base rate data for 48 of them. The average base rate for all the areas hotels is £136 per night. From a low of £17 at Generator Hotel (3 Star, 69%) and the highest rates top out at £536 at Rosewood London Hotel (5 Star, 91%). The following are the averages for each star level: Five Star average: £271, Four Star average: £150, Three Star average: £91, Two Star average: £67 and One Star average: £71.
Summary:
Using our in-house algorithm we rank hotels based on guest ratings and weighted for related factors we rank Crowne Plaza Kings Cross 34th (joint) of 50 area hotels and 17th for the 21 four star hotels in the area. We rank the hotel 22nd of 48 (4th of 21 four star hotels.) for base rates. We rank this hotel based on rates and also review scores to place it 40th of 48 of all the closest hotels in terms of value for money (Travelodge London Central Kings Cross was top).