Hotel Rafayel

General information

''In London we Australians stepped away from the traditional "Hotels" with their "Ideal Location", tiny stairs, modular showers, piddling water pressure and sterile "Dining" areas, to a real hotel, for five nights:

Found Rafayel On The Left Bank at Battersea, on Thames on TA:

Buy an "Oyster" card, catch the 170 bus at Victoria, minutes later, after little tour of Chelsea, alight at London Heliport and you're at the hotel door !!

(If bus-shy, tube to Clapham Common and phone ahead for hotel courtesy car).
Super clean High Tec building, great genuinely friendly staff, BIG rooms, huge beds, real bathrooms, air con which works, showers equivalent to standing under Niagra Falls, 50% off two+ course meals at the restaurant on the Thames. (Any closer and you'd be on a Thames barge !!) And, the lobby cafe is one of the few places in London serving REAL coffee equivalent to Melbourne's best.

Choose river plus sunsets, +/- helicopters, or Eastern view room !!''

As decrbied by Gasmambo from Melbourne