Chelsea Cloisters Hotel Advice

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Hi there, looking for some advice please.

I am booked in for a procedure at the Royal Brompton hospital in a few weeks time and have to go up to the hospital 2 days beforehand for a load of blood tests; as we live a couple of hundred miles away, they have booked me in to the Chelsea Cloisters Hotel for the night after the bloods then, the following night I will be admitted to the ward ready for the procedure the following morning.

Has anyone on here got any experience of staying at the Chelsea Cloisters Hotel as part of a hospital admission? Wondering what facilities they have and what will be provided in the way of food/refreshments while I’m there or if I have to fend for myself out and about on the Saturday and Sunday before I’m admitted to the hospital.

Thanks in advance for any replies!

I've not stayed there, but it looks like serviced apartments rather than a hotel.
https://chelseacloisters.co.uk/

That kind of place usually does not provide any food - you'll have a kitchen.

Hope the procedure goes easily for you.

It's not a hotel. It's serviced apartments. Good position and good value. Lots of nearby places to buy food and provisions. You'll be fine there.

If you're driving in you could bring some food along and store it in the kitchen.
Alternatively, there's an M&S on the King's Road about a 10-minute walk away.
There's also a restaurant and a coffee shop in the hospital itself.

Thanks for this information; it’s really helpful. I plan to drive up to London but not as central as RBH, leaving my car at my sisters if I’m only having the bronchoscopy and then being discharged. Otherwise, as I won’t be able to drive for at least 4-6 weeks after, if I’m staying in to have the main operation (partial chest wall resection and reconstruction) I’ll get the train or coach up to London instead.

Pleased to be able to help.
Does having the resection and reconstruction depend on the bronchoscopy results, or do you already know that you'll have to have that at some point (if you don't mind my asking).

No, I don’t mind you asking.

The bronchoscopy is routine as part of the surgery prep and the resection/reconstruction and the results won’t affect the surgery happening. I had a 4cm x 2cm mass in my chest that was found during tests before starting new treatment for an unrelated condition; it was removed last year then, on post op scans this year, they found another 2.2cm x 1.9cm mass in the same place and didn’t know whether it was residual tissue or re growth.

The referral to Royal Brompton came about because I was not getting answers about the test results from my local team. The Brompton believe it is another lobe of the same mass and, as a result, recommended the more radical surgery as it reduces the risk of recurrence far more than repeating the surgery I had last year would.

After today’s appointment with the consultant, he’s are going to write to my local team to see if they will take over the surgery side of it but, if there’s going to be an undue wait for admission, or they’re hesitant to operate, then I will go up to London for it and he said I can let him know when works for me (at the moment the date I was given means I’d miss my twins first day at school!!) and they will book me in.

So, now I need to wait to see the consultant at the local hospital!!

I stayed there about 20 years ago for nearly a year so no recent experience. It is a serviced apartment. Good location for tube and saw there was a Sainsburys opened up nearby since. I enjoyed my time there! (Was paid for by work!)

Very sorry you're having to go through all this, OP. But It sounds like you have a good team taking care of you.
As all PPs have said, RBH is in a good location and Chelsea Cloisters should be comfortable, so if you did have to come up to London, that aspect won't add to the burden.
I hope this all resolves easily and soon - and that you won't miss the twins' first day at school!

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/inside-londons-huge-indoor-red-13894792
Just going to leave this here. It's not a hotel but a humongous apartment block with serviced flats. It's always had a somewhat seedy reputation and the building itself is quite old and grubby in places. However it's still a safe area and if you're lucky you may get a newly renovated flat. All of them should have kitchen & cooking facilities which is arguably better than a standard hotel room. However there's definitely no food service or a typical hotel-style reception.

Recent reviews of Chelsea Cloisters on Trip Advisor

www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g186338-d608273-Reviews-Chelsea_Cloisters-London_England.html

We stayed there in 2019, it was horrendous.
Booked for 2 nights but left after one night. The rooms stunk of weed, lots of people milling about.
Sat on the loo and water pissing through the bathroom light onto your head. Room above was leaking but after numerous complaints we were never moved. It was a deathtrap.
Door didn't lock properly. Room looked like nothing on the website.
We might have just been unlucky but it was hell, sat up all night terrified it would go on fire and we'd never be able to get out. On a high floor with no obvious fire exits or stairwells.

We used to live around the corner from there, although I've never been in that building. You're about a 3 minute walk from Chelsea Green, which has pretty much everything you could want or need. There's a greengrocer, a cheese shop, butcher, fishmonger, coffee, chemist, etc. The Pie Man does very reasonably priced prepared food and Finn's also has prepared food, although a smallish selection. Birley Bakery has expensive but lovely sandwiches and pastries. The PP who said there is a small Sainsbury is correct.

I'm sorry you're dealing with this and hope all goes well and you can make the twins' first day.