Strand Palace Hotel has over 750 rooms and is situated in Covent Garden and is within walking distance from the West End and Theatreland. Non smoking rooms are available upon request. The hotel boasts a laundry and dry cleaning service as well as a bar and restaurant area. An NCP car park is located nearby. Child care services are provided. Conference facilities for up to 170 delegates are available.
Sitting right in the middle of the Strand, just across the road from the Savoy, The Strand Palace is an eight floor hotel which is about as close to the theaters as it's possible to be (so long as that theater is the one currently showing Joseph).
Despite the very shiny reception area, and the coated doorman opening the unfeasibly heavy front doors, it is however far from a palace. The hallways are quite shabby, with the plywood panel doors being badly scratched and the carpets looking pretty tired. The rooms are densely packed, and it's quite noisy.
My room is a "deluxe double" and is about twelve square with a small bathroom attached. It does have proper wooden shutters through which help keep out the noise of the street below more than curtains would be.
So, its far from a luxury stay, and for the same money you could stay in some much nicer places, but probably not quite as handy for the city centre.
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