Fancy a cheap Central London Hotel..? Premier Inn Euston REVIEW

I check into the Premier Inn Euston Road to give it the full luxury vlogger style review (inspired by Hannah Ricketts ) to see if the £189 top-floor corner room is worth it. After trying to check in to the completely wrong hotel. Once I find the right brutalist concrete location, I give a full Premier Inn Euston room tour, including the amazing view, the clean bathroom (with surprise body wash), and an unexpected dust test. I also cover the lack of air conditioning, the price, the noise levels, and whether the £12.99 unlimited breakfast is a must-buy.

Fancy a cheap Central London Hotel..? Premier Inn Euston REVIEW



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I'm in London's lovely King's Cross. Or is it St. Pancras? Actually, it's neither. It's further up. It's up there up Euston Road. I am checking into the Premier Inn Euston, and it's a... it's a building that I've walked past, driven past about four decades, and I'm finally having a look inside to see what it's like to stay in the Premier Inn, Euston. I'm a bit worried because obviously I grew up around here. So I know how rough this area is even now. Um so to go to a hotel that's taken quite a battering I... I'd imagine in my head is going to be quite a thrill. Also I'm a huge fan of Hannah Ricketts who makes all these wonderful videos about five-star hotels. I think she has stayed in the St. Pancras Hotel and uh she said that she might be doing one there, but my Premier Inn is in the concrete block that's two blocks along. Let's see if I can film myself checking in and not get run over. I paid £189 for this room. I ordered... I ordered it. I booked it uh about 3 weeks ago. Premier Inn have these three tiers of booking. So, you either pay extra, about £50 extra to be able to cancel right up to the 1:00 p.m. on the same day. Another tier where I think you can amend your booking. And then this last tier, which is you got to you got to use it. And if you don't use it, you can change the the date up until 1:00 p.m. But thankfully, my trip is still on. So, let's see if I can film myself checking in. So, this is me checking into the Premier Inn what I think is the Premier Inn Euston. And it's a little impersonal, but there's a stack of key cards for the room and four terminals. And I just need to scan in the QR code to then program one of these key cards for my room. But it won't scan my QR code. But that's okay. I can just type in my booking reference number. Except... Except I can't I can't type it in because I am in completely the wrong hotel. I'll try to explain it to camera now, but the sound on this clip isn't very good. So, I have come to completely the wrong hotel. That's maybe the hub. Do you know what though? There were about four people behind me in that self-check-in queue that had also come to the wrong hotel. So, we got to go further up Euston Road to the other Premier Inn the one that's actually closer to Euston station. And it's only one block up the road. I think that last one was a Premier Inn hub, but this this is the Premier Inn Euston Road Hotel that we want. It's almost opposite Euston station. It's a easy mistake to make, but the exterior of this hotel is a little more 1960s Soviet brutalist concrete, less wackaging and funky neon signs. But there was a much better welcome here from the staff. Just behind the camera is a really nice hotel worker guiding me through the self check-in. I... I thought the service from the staff I met was really friendly and welcoming, which you absolutely need in this monstrosity of a building. Really lovely smiles and welcomes. It was very much appreciated. The self check-in machine spat out a receipt saying I was in room 111 and I couldn't face being on the first floor, so I very gently asked if there was anything higher in the hotel. He kindly manually issued me a new key card for room 547 which is on the corner of the top floor. Completely brilliant service. Thank you. Welcome to my room. Now, curse of the travel vlogger is that you have to film the room as quickly as possible before you trash it. So, this is how it looks as I as I walk in. You can get the full uh arrival effect here.

And this is the view. And this is the these are the rooftops of Euston. Uh this is much better than I thought it would be. I think Euston Road is running down that way. And these are the back streets around uh Euston. I do not expect to get a view with a... with a Premier Inn anywhere, but I'm... I'm pretty happy with this. This is pretty good. Hey, does this... this window doesn't open, does it? Oh my goodness. The window opens. Fresh air. Oh my goodness. You don't get opening windows with a five-star hotel. Look at me. I'm just happy at the smallest things. Let's open up the the other window. Oh my goodness. This is phenomenal. How fantastic that there's fresh air, though. The only downer, and I'm sure they would fix it instantly if I if I asked, but there's the... that light bulb's out. So, it is a bit... it's a bit dark in here rather than uh mood lighting. So, I've I've turned all the lights on. This isn't like a Hannah Ricketts five-star hotel, is it? And I've got that pointing at my face so you can see me. It is very dark in here, but that's okay. And I'm sure if I phone down, uh they're very, very helpful. Lovely greeting at reception. Uh unlike the other place which I think might be more of a hub and it's a lot busier, but uh here I couldn't really film the check-in because I was being guided through the screens by a very... very helpful uh member of staff and is a... is a little tricky. You have to check in with your booking and then you get your key card. There's like a stack of key cards and you you basically charge your your key card. you tap it against the like the... the contactless reader and it... it programs the... the number for you and then you get a print out saying which room number you're in. I don't know why, but I got room 111 and I just thought I don't want to be on the first floor. I don't I wonder if and I just asked is there any chance and very kindly they've put me up here the very top floor corner room on the top floor. Ah, this is this is the life at this price point. This is the life. Let's do a tour of the room. I'll give you a 360 of the room. I've put my wide-angled lens on to get as much uh in as possible. It is... It's snug. It's not tiny. It's just the right size. You know, someone had worked out an algorithm for what is the exact number of cm we can uh squeeze in here. And it's it's got this kind of I'd say 60s chic to it with the with the brown and the ceiling tiles. Not a fan of ceiling tiles, but you know, it... it's okay. It's a very um How can I show you? I'm 5' 10 and I can comfortably touch the entrance ceiling in the the hallway, the lobby, and oh, I could just about stretch to touch the ceiling tiles at the top. So, it's it's literally they've made a box that is human size. Let's go in the bathroom. Now, I have no idea how Hannah Ricketts makes her videos last 31 minutes and makes them really entertaining. So, I... I will try and give you the full... the full tour. So, we've got a sign here. Please keep this door closed when in use as steam can set off the fire alarms. So, we have like a a lino floor. The hotel room, the sleeping area is carpet. It's... It seems on first glance very clean. Also, I just got to say, sorry, know I should be doing a bathroom tour, but usually the furniture is beaten up, but it is absolutely pristine. Again, in the five-star hotels, you have some really sort of battered furniture cuz my expectations were very low. There's three coat hooks by the door and the a tea making area with a bin and a sign saying please don't use the bin if you have to... if you don't have to. Anyway, back to the bathroom. Hello. Here I am. No ceiling tiles in here thankfully. Just a single light and uh a fan. Very clean shower curtain. Look at that. We've got a towel, a bath mat. Oh no, that's the bath mat. That's a little towel. I'm going to stick that behind the door handle after all those warning videos that I've seen online about protecting yourself in a hotel room. How to secure a hotel room. I thought I'd need that here cuz we're in central London and we are I mean it's it's I grew up around here. As I said, it is crime central out there. So, I'm hoping that the door security will be is pretty good. They seem really diligent on saying hi to everyone coming in... in a very friendly way. Here we have a shower. I know some of you are like my wife are shower experts. This is a Hansgroer. It's a hands grower, not a shower. And look, it's got a rainfall, what do you call it? Shower head. Words are failing me. Should I turn it? I've got to turn that on to give you the the full effect. All you need to do is set the tap running and then pull this button. Hope it doesn't hit the camera. Up. Away it goes. That is a nice shower. It's good pressure, nice temperature. Absolutely lovely. And we have some Baylis & Harding uh shower gel which is full and it's white tea and neroli. Very nice cuz oh my goodness when I was in Manchester at Premier Inn, you know those dispensers like you have in public toilets to dispense the the shower gel. So having a little bottle holder there is really nice touch I think. Let's take a look at the toilet. And that is clean and very utilitarian seat. Can you imagine the absolute pounding? Oh, it's more uh white tea and neroli. This is luxury hand wash. And over here, this is luxury hair and body wash. So, you have the two... two Baylis & Harding bottles. Really nice touch there cuz you I was just expecting one of those public restroom style dispensers and the... the tap. Really nice. Super duper clean as well. I... I just could not be more happy with how this is working out. But can you imagine the absolute pounding, the absolute hammering this room must get? Or maybe it doesn't. Maybe it's used by travelers who are just here for a couple of hours before they get there on the Eurostar just over at St Pancras. Maybe it's very one and done and maybe it has very light use because just travellers using this location do not want to stay here very long. If you are thinking of staying here for an extended stay or for this to be your base in London, this is absolutely phenomenal location it is so well connected. You can get to anywhere from anywhere from here. You can get to anywhere from here. Pretty much all tube lines. You can walk into the West End. It's a really nice 10, 15 minute walk and you have the three station terminae. You've also got Marylebone up the road. So for £189 with the nervousness that if I had to cancel I'd lose that. But it seemed like a good gamble. Let me show you the hallway. Another thing that Hannah Ricketts does on her channel is to show you where the room is in relation to the fire escapes and the other rooms. And there isn't there isn't a plan. Maybe it's... maybe it's in the hallway. But so now all my horror videos that I've been watching on YouTube are kicking in where one of the pieces of advice is to check out your emergency escape route. Can I make it out the window? I don't think I can. No, this is quite high up. Oh, better lock the the window there. And it doesn't have one of those things where you make the electricity happen with your room key. I thought it was, but it is actually a defunct air conditioning control. I got one email every day for about 3 weeks telling me that there is no air conditioning in this hotel. I don't know if it's broken or if there just isn't one and they're just reminding you a lot. I got the impression from the emails that it was uh more of a... a maintenance thing. It is really warm in here. It's October, so I'm very grateful for the warmth. I'm just going to check that the heating isn't on. Right. So, we've got heating... cooling. So, I'm going to switch it to cooling even though there's nothing happening there. I don't know if you can see this if it's showing up on the camera, but it's 21° in here, which is toasty. Now, my wife and family would love this. This is the absolutely perfect temperature for them. It's 3° too hot for me. I came completely buyer aware because of these warning emails just saying... just repeating over and over again. I'd imagine they'd have a lot of complaints. I can't imagine how warm this would be in the heat of the summer, especially on the top floor as well. So, just bear that in mind that at time of recording, there is no air con. Let me show you the desk area. So, having an... I didn't even notice this, but having an electric fan is probably a sign that there hasn't been air con here for a long time. I can feel I... so I've switched that to cooling. I can absolutely feel a lovely breeze coming in. Oh, that's nice. Oh my goodness. That's good. So, it's not air conditioning, but there is some kind of central fan here. Should I see if this works? Don't think it does. No, it's just all kinds of flashing. What if I press the chilly button? There are three speeds. So, I've got it up to the third speed. Oo, I just felt that. So, these ceiling tiles do something. There's something about ceiling tiles though that... Oh, I don't know. It just What's up there? What is up there? What have previous guests put up there? So, the ceiling tiles are a little bit ick, but I'm sure that everything is completely safe. So, I've been in here probably an hour now, and it's getting it's getting really warm in here. It's still saying 21°, though, so maybe it's just a psychological thing. I really want to show you the bed. The bed was super clean, presented in a really lovely way. Give you a nice swoop around the bed. Underneath seems really clean. There's nothing under there. All the nooks and crannies seem really super clean. Oh, I know what we haven't done. We haven't done the the dust test. Let's do the dust test. This is Hannah Ricketts copying that TV programme that does it. So, here we go.

No, it's clean. It's absolutely clean. The... the shelves I can already see are clean. Let's try on top of the bed. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. And there are five-star hotels. I can point out the window. There are 5 star hotels over there with dust and this doesn't have one. Clean. Do you know what? It's probably... It's probably people doing the dust test that are dusting all of these rooms. The only stain I found is just over there. It's just a little bit of brick dust. Probably from where whatever was done to that electrical thing. A little bit of brick dust, but every everywhere else is completely stain free. It's a really... my tripod again. It's really, really clean carpet. It feels really clean in here. And this, look, no dust on the fan. Hey, we're over by the table. The lighting conditions in here are very challenging. So, uh, thank you for going along with the moodiness of the the lighting of the room. So, we have some promotional literature here. Shall we find out how much stuff costs? Uh, so we got a drinks menu. Let's see how much a... a can of Coke costs. The menus are clean, which is which is nice. Got some cocktails. 2 for £14 every day 5 till 7. Midnight woo woo, classic mojito. What do you fancy? A bottle of Coke is £3.85. Red Bull is £4.35. Why you would want a Red Bull in a hotel, I do not know. I would have thought that might counteract the blackout curtains over there. Spirits £7.70. And I guess these are in the the bar downstairs. I don't know. Oh, hot drinks. Latte £3.20. Come on, that's cheaper than A Costa. And they owned by the same brand, I think. So, anyway, drinks menu and then food menu. Right. So, breakfast. I might give this a try. The unlimited cooked breakfast. £12.99. Come on. What's not to like? eggs, hash browns, bacon back rashers, pork sausages, bon bon bon bon bons, vegan sausage, baked beans, black pudding, grilled tomato, mushrooms. So, unlimited cooked and continental breakfast, and unlimited drinks, £12.99. Yeah, I... I think I've got to do it. There's some foreshadowing. And the other option is an unlimited continental £10.99. So that's unlimited continental breakfast and unlimited drinks. Amazing. So this is the continental breakfast. My hand is shaking with absolute desire for all of these things. And you've got hot drinks and cold drinks, apple juice, cranberry, orange. There's more. There's the TV. I haven't even turned the TV on. The remote control is obscenely clean. Who knows what has touched that, but I'm... I'm not feeling squeamish. I will sanitize my hands afterwards, but it does look and feel very clean. Should we turn the TV on? A nice welcoming splash page there. Premier Inn. Okay, let's turn this down because there's something about BBC1 daytime shows. They really clobber you with copyright strikes. These are all the channels. They're all free view channels. All the regular channels you'd get off an aerial. And it's got the ones that they're on Freeview, but you can't see them. And it also has all of the radio stations as well, which is really handy. So, you've got a radio in your room. Let's go to the kettle station. And very clean. Oh, just up above here. So, a dust test. No dust at all. Amazing. Kettle station. Check in here. So, it's a... a Russell Hobbs kettle. And it doesn't look like it's been used cuz it's still got the the sticker that you get when it's brand new. Let's open it up. You just pull the lid off. Absolutely spotless inside. Two glasses. Now, my wife says, "Do not use glasses in hotel rooms because they... the temptation to use the towel to clean them." I'm sure they don't. I'm sure these are steam cleaned and absolutely sterile, but I don't touch hotel room glasses. Oh, this is nice. It's an acrylic box presentation. That's very stylish. You get two PG Tips tea bags, collective noun of milks, and we get some sugar and sweet and low in there if you want a cup of tea in your room in the nice glasses there. And underneath the kettle station, we have a holster that holds a hair dryer that looks like it's been Yeah. screwed to the wall. And it is a purple one. Wow, that looks funky. I think that is a... a... obviously that's an on brand Premier Inn hair dryer and something obviously that is a... a big... I really look for in a hotel room. Morning. Uh so I made it back in one piece. Uh it was very loud event that I went to. So I uh uh I'm... I'm... my speaking is not quite as good as it usually is. This is the view from the window this morning. Uh, early morning, North London, looking out to the east. I had a great night's sleep. The bed, the mattress is perfect. The duvet was not up to... like is it... It was good. It was... It... It was good and great. Usually I'd really associate this with Premier Inn, you know, the sort of the corridor door going clunk clunk in the night, but didn't have any of that. In terms of noise for me, it was it was silent. Had a really good quiet night. So, uh, very happy. I'm... I'm just going to have one more look out the window cuz I'm absolutely a gog. I can actually have fresh air in my hotel room. That is just Oh, so good. I can breathe sweet, sweet NW1 air from this window. Got some stickers there saying don't jump. I have to stand this side round because it's the only place in the room where I get any light. And I'm looking out onto that lovely that lovely vista of a really nice bit of Camden. If this video... is this video helpful, is this the kind of thing? Is this what you wanted from a Premier Inn room tour? Leave me a comment down below and say hi if you've made it to this point in the video. And thank you for... Oh, there's my phone. 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