This doesn't help at all, but in 'random story about London hotels' news...
We stayed in a niiice hotel for the London Cycle Show one year, an old man and his (pretty hot) Russian bride ran it. She actually said 'thankyouplease' at one point, we found a pube in someone's bed, bloody on someone's bedsheets, and one of the pictures in the hall had smashed glass.
A few doors down there was another sweeeet hotel, £10 a night - you got to share a room with whichever random person also decided that a £10 a night hotel in London was a good idea... Dodgy.