Union Níké Apartments

We stayed for 2 nights on our way to another destination and found the accommodation to be nice. However it wasn't made clear at the booking stage that we collect a key from one address and then the accommodation was somewhere else. So we got off the train with having traveled with 3 large heavy suitcases to walk the 15 mins to where we thought our accommodation was only to have to walk back past the station to our apartment (40mins). The pillows were were all very old and not fit for purpose. Mattress in the bedroom was also in need of updating as the memory foam had molded to a larger,heavier person. I was a little disappointed :(

To start with there is no such place as Union Nike Apartments. The actual apartment building is called “Westminster”. The location is not the address that was advertised on Hotels.com, which was actually the property management office. Wish I’d known this before the taxi dropped us off with our 70 lbs of baggage! But never mind that - the property was just a 10 min walk away, but after a 10-hour flight, I got an Uber instead. On to the apartment itself - it is not what they show on the photo. Not even close. Not even the same building as shown in the photos on Hotels.com. But the area in Southwark is great and the apartment is clean and modern so we try to make the best of it. And then things got funky. Literally. By day 2, the stench of garbage was so awful that I could barely breathe. I took refuge by sleeping on the living room couch. But the noise from the street below was so loud - I mean I could hear people talking, the traffic light warnings, the buses, the cars, I got no sleep whatsoever. Maybe it would have been less noisy if I’d closed the windows, but it was the hottest day in history in London and the apartment had no fans, no AC, it was smoking hot. So back to the stench. Turns out there were trash bins sitting directly behind the bedroom windows. It was intolerable. So I contacted hotels.com to complain and I went to the property management office to demand a relocation. To their credit they moved us to a lovely 2-bdrm in Shoreditch.

Cool little flat! I might recommend some area rugs, because that was one loud floor! (A new shower curtain too - one with magnets, so the curtain doesn’t attack you when showering. Beware, where you get your key and where you flat is are in different locations. Be prepared to walk or get a taxi once you pick up your keys.

A lot of walking involved to get to check in location and then the actual apartments. Late fee was charged after 9PM even though there was no mention of this before hand. Apartment did not match the pictures whatsoever.

Nice clean very spacious location was a bit hard to find but once located was fine to re locate