To think this hotel is a bit silly

[ShuttersAndMirrors]

Looking for somewhere cheap but different to stay in London

Came across this
www.roughluxe.co.uk

Takes the whole shabby chic thing a bit far, don't you think? Some of the rooms look like crime scenes. I particularly like the caption on one of the mirrors!

Off to check tripadvisor reviews

The paint has been artfully peeled off the fucking walls.

Jesus Christ people.

Looks like my very-much-a-doer-upper house at the moment! Maybe I'm onto something?

Maybe they do not anticipate their target clientele will actually be sleeping there overnight.

It's horrible.

Obligatory Harry Enfield link:

I think their philosophy was written by an apprentice candidate, 'It is a knew way of looking at luxury as part of time and not just as an object of consumption.'

Awful . Just awful. Wankery try too hard and oh how risqué, how Bohemian - a print that says "This is Shit" in the dining room.

And it's at King's Cross, as if there weren't enough rubbish hotels there already.

So they're going for 'how many mugs with more money than sense can we persuade to fork out shedloads of cash to stay in our shithole and feel like they had a luxurious experience' , right?

'Imagery' instead of 'images' or 'photos'

Wanktastic

< impressed that my iPad autocorrected wanktastic to wankbadger. Says a lot about my English usage>

So how many bookings are you getting OP?

Well the OP isn't getting my booking! In fact, this photo of the establishment's delights sums up my feelings very well!

wankbadger perhaps they could put that on a manky old mirror too AnUnearthlyChild

The mixture of bare walls and a few decent fittings reminds me too much of home.

Funny as fuck!
It's like Peddlars in hotel form.

you could try here.

www.pavilionhoteluk.com/

That copper bath comes in at £2500 - 3000 retail.

As a result of going to a non-pushy independent school, I have a few arty siblings friends with houses like this.

I howled at the "this is shit" picture art.

DH (who went to a comp) was like this ->

It looks bloody dreadful. I bet the people who run it are the most pretentious twats 'Yah dahling we're so ironic'.

Bleugh.

It did occur to me that someone might think I was promoting the hotel in an underhand way. And I used to work in PR

I don't know how to convince you otherwise. But personally I think the hotel is a grim orgy of self congratulatory wankfestiness. But of course I could be the owner and that could be my King's Cross sarcasm coming though!

The pavillion also looks a bit terrifying to me gives up trying to be different and checks out Best Western rates

I actually am extremely pretentious and even I find it ridiculous.

So far as the price of £239 a night I treated myself to a night at The Ritz at the end of last year. It was £285.

That kind of works for me.

Nice advertisement OP.

It makes my skin itch.
The kind of place I'd sleep fully clothed in case I needed to leave quickly.

a grim orgy of self congratulatory wankfestiness

Rolls off the tongue. I have to work this into a conversation tomorrow