a video review of the Renaissance Saint
Pancras hotel in London UK I'm Chris
this is yello productions I do travel
guys that are fun informative
entertaining and in this video I'm gonna
be telling you everything you need to
know to stay at this hotel including the
neighborhood around the hotel the common
areas of the hotel and I'll clue
you of the hotel the hotel is directly
connected to the st. Pancras
International train station right
through there that's where the Eurostar
trains depart to Paris and Brussels get
there in just two hours from here so
it's really convenient because you don't
even have to go outside to get there
right down this staircase is the King's
Cross underground station and you
actually get there via inside the hotel
that's really nice because all the tube
lines pretty much intersect here so you
can get most places London without
having to connect and there's also
special Harry Potter platform the
Hogwarts here at Kings Cross and inside
the train station you'll find a lot of
shops and restaurants and convenience
stores this is really convenient if you
need to get some water something quick
to eat you'll find a lot of things you
can get to without having to schlep out
in the weather if you're looking for
cheap eats in the train station your
best bet will be a mark and Spencers
also known as MNS it's like a really big
convenience store but they've got
freshly prepared sandwiches desserts
lots of things pretty inexpensively
there's also a Boots pharmacy in case
you're looking for a pharmacy there's a
yo sushi back here which is a rotating
sushi place you'll also find a prime
burger a pret and a Starbucks here in
this back corner of the st. Pancras
International train station if you're
arriving into London Heathrow Airport
you can take the tube all the way to the
hotel on the Piccadilly line no
transfers needed it'll take you about an
hour you could also take a taxi here it
takes about 45 minutes they'll drop you
off in this neat circular driveway as
you come into the lobby it's a neat
Lobby it has this kind of old regal
1960s feel the center of the lobby is an
area for afternoon drinks or afternoon
tea or evening drinks and then on the
right hand side is where you'll be
checking in the hotel's divided into two
main wings the chambers this
this is the historic week if you want
historic rooms and it's a really grand
historic make sure you book the chambers
wing if you're okay with something a
little bit more modern the Barlow way if
you're like us and you're broken with
points in your teeth that's where you'll
likely end up does this staircase look
familiar to you well if you are live in
the 90s it should I guarantee you've
seen this staircase before so where have
you seen this staircase before I'll give
you a hint you want to be my lover you
gotta get with my friends the Spice
Girls wannabe song was shot right here
on this staircase and you too can come
do a little dance single song as long as
you're Hotel resident only I mean if
you're not I guess the hotel's main
restaurant is called the booking office
and it's a former part of the train
station where they used to book and sell
train tickets this is where they serve
breakfast lunch and dinner more about
this in the review section just next to
the booking office is the Chamber's Club
this is the hotel's executive lounge or
concierge lounge so if you are a
Marriott elite member that you're
entitled to lounge access this is where
you'll be able to get breakfast
afternoon tea and evening snacks hors
d'oeuvres and drinks there's also one
more restaurant in the Chamber's wing
the Gilbert Scott restaurant though this
restaurant is not open for breakfast but
it too is quite a grand looking
restaurant and then our room was in the
Barlow wing there's two wings of the
hotel the Chamber's wing which is where
the historic suites are and the Barlow
wing which is where the majority of the
rooms are or as they call it the modern
wing of the hotel and back off the lobby
there's the spa we didn't spend any time
on the spa so I can't really tell you
all that much about the spa now let's
take a quick look at the room pretty
functional interesting colors sorry this
isn't more detailed but the footage that
I had on my original camera that I shot
this review on originally was actually
stolen and so now I'm doing this on a
GoPro looking out the window of our room
315 a superior twin room in the Barlow
wing is the British Live
very this is the largest national
library in the world by number of items
catalog it is home to the magna carta
admission is free and yes you see a road
down there but actually it was not noisy
we could not hear the cars at all from
our room these windows are pretty good
and if you look the walls of this room
are like super thick right these walls
are almost like three feet thick so now
that we've seen everything around the
hotel let's do a review I'll talk about
the pros and the cons of staying at this
hotel but first we'll give it a TOEFL
reading unfortunately mentioned my
camera stolen topher was stolen too but
when he shot this earlier Topher gave
this hotel for Topher's so we'll talk
about the pros and the cons of why this
hotel got for Topher's
so first of all pros it's a great
location right next to Kings Cross that
st. Pancras International station it's
just really convenient to get anywhere
in London it's also really convenient
that it's directly connected to that
train station so you can walk to the
train station you don't have to get wet
you don't have to go in the weather
since London is a pretty lousy weather
place other pros the staff was really
great the room was good sleeping it was
quiet the air conditioning was cold the
bathroom was good just I mean a pretty
good just general hotel experience oh
and also the full English breakfast in
the booking office was really quite good
we took breakfast there most everyday
the breakfast at the booking-office was
better than the breakfast in the lounge
because there was a bigger selection in
the booking-office restaurant but lots
of fruits full English breakfast
including you know eggs mushrooms
tomatoes beans all those good fixings
and then we also enjoyed just the
interesting atmosphere in the booking
office it's not like a typical breakfast
restaurant in a typical Marriott hotel
and then in the club we took the
afternoon tea a couple of times the
scones are really delicious the tea was
great and so are all the other desserts
that they put out they also put our
finger sandwiches though we didn't end
up with any of the finger sandwiches
because finger sandwiches aren't really
our thing okay so now on to the cons
first it is expensive the room rate this
week we were here in August if we were
baura was 400 great British pounds
that's really expensive now it is August
so it is high week actually a pro
related to this con we actually stayed
here on Marriott Rewards points it's
50,000 points to stay here and it's
60,000 points to stay at most of the
other Marriott in the center of the city
so if you're staying here in Marriott
points you might find it to actually be
a better deal than a lot of the other
Marriott's the con while the room I said
was nice and functional it's not amazing
it's not lavish like the Park Lane
Marriott is amazing and classically
British or the Tokyo Station Hotel is
amazing this hotel was just good and
adequate it didn't like blow me away the
breakfast was also really good and I
talked about earlier but it wasn't like
a blow me away breakfast and the other
Compton location like I said it was a
pro but it's also a con now it's really
well connected on the London Underground
the tube but pretty much to go anywhere
you will have to take the tube it is
directly adjacent to the British Library
so if you want to see the magna carta or
a lot of like book type things that's
right nearby but it's not within walking
distance to the major attractions like
Westminster or the coca-cola
I like the big ferris wheel it's not
near you know Piccadilly Circus right
you're gonna have to take the tube to
get to those places so if you're okay
taking public transportation and we are
then this is a fabulous hotel for that
so all in all would we stay here again
we absolutely would we really enjoyed
our stay here especially since it's less
points than the other Marriott's but to
others you might want to consider that I
have reviews of I have a review of the
Park Lane Marriott that one's more
high-end the rooms are better though the
lounge is not as good as this one and
the county hall Marriott I like that one
because I like the location right on the
Thames River so that's pretty neat to
stay there or you might want to check
out some of the videos from my London
series you'll also find links
description below won't say goodbye
because I'll see you in one of those
videos