Ensuite Room @ Astor House by Pureserviced

Booked as a self-contained room thinking it had a kitchen. It did - shared by the rest of the rooms on the floor. Hmmm. It felt like an institution - a key card to get through a barred gate, then again to enter the building, once more to enter the floor and finally a fourth time to enter the room. Didn't realize it was student accommodation most of the year. Whenever another room door closed there was a loud bang! Not peaceful enough for my comfort. The room window was floor to ceiling with a single opaque blind from floor to ceiling. Want privacy, then you get darkness. Anyone in the courtyard outside can see into the room when the blind is open. The lighting was excessively bright with no way to dim it. The bathroom similarly. All lights were ceiling spotlights - makes shaving a shadow hazard. At night the lights in the bathroom were so bright you were sure not to get back to sleep after using the bathroom. I won't stay there again unless my expectations drop through the floor. Extremely impersonal, too.