{"id":411,"date":"2019-11-17T11:39:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T11:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/?p=411"},"modified":"2019-11-17T11:39:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T11:39:29","slug":"ibis-budget-whitechapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/2019\/11\/ibis-budget-whitechapel\/","title":{"rendered":"ibis Budget Whitechapel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I wasn’t going to review the ibis Budget Whitechapel<\/a> as I was only there for a night, but the check-out experience tipped my hand, and here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My brief stay here followed a night in the rather more upmarket Park Plaza London Riverbank, but I was prepared for what it was supposed to be — a budget hotel (even though the night I was there was costing \u00a3120).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On walking in, the reception is on the first floor (for our American friends, that’s the floor above ground level), and I was momentarily confused as there’s a table tennis table to your left, and a surprisingly similar table to the right, but with a couple of screens and no net. It may not surprise you to learn that this is the check-in desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The staff were friendly and check-in was swift, and I was soon on my way to my room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bags top bunk!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As I was expecting from a budget hotel, the room was basic. A double bed with a single bunk above it. A small desk, no separate bathroom, but a student-digs style shower and a loo. No toiletries other than a couple of bars of ibis Budget soap. The view was nothing to speak of, but I’m not sure what else to expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Please ignore the man in the mirror!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I settled down to do a bit of work, then headed out to meet up with some friends. I noticed the battery on my laptop hadn’t charged whilst I’d been working, but I know there’s a dodgy connector unless it’s plugged firmly in, so I put it down to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later that evening, I got back and put all the things on charge — except they wouldn’t. All the sockets in the room were dead, as was the TV and the air-conditioning (which has a note on the wall that it isn’t air conditioning, it’s just a fan). I had a look around the room for circuit breakers, but it was late by this point, and I had my travel battery, so I didn’t bother telling reception, I just planned to mention it on the way out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the morning the shower did its job, though washing your hair with a bar of soap is less than ideal, and at this point I noticed that even if I’d had power, there was no kettle, tea, or coffee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On checkout I mentioned about the lack of power and was told “you should have told us!” I politely replied that I was telling them now, and they insisted that I should have told them last night. I didn’t want to get into a long conversation about time, etc, all I’d been hoping for was “sorry about that, thanks for letting us know, we’ll get it fixed,” so I bade the hotel farewell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll not be rushing to return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wasn’t going to review the ibis Budget Whitechapel as I was only there for a night, but the check-out experience tipped my hand, and here we are. My brief stay here followed a night in the rather more upmarket Park Plaza London Riverbank, but I was prepared for what it was supposed to be… Continue reading ibis Budget Whitechapel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,11],"tags":[37,65,66,67,69,22,68],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hotel-reviews","category-travel","tag-hotel-review","tag-ibis","tag-ibis-budget","tag-ibis-budget-whitechapel","tag-london","tag-travel","tag-whitechapel","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetplumber.org.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}