Name: Prince Hotel
Address: 4 Stanmore Road, Birmingham, Birmingham, Birmingham, B16 9TA, United Kingdom
Rating: 7

24-hour reception

Smoke-free property

Heating

No elevators

General

Non-smoking rooms

Family room

DVD Player

Rooms

Accessibility features

Accessibility

Iron and board

Luggage storage

Laundry

Wake-up service

Services and amenities

Free Wi-Fi

Internet

English

Languages Spoken

Free parking

Parking

Family/Kid Friendly

Kids

Extra decontamination measures

Additional measures against COVID-19

Health and Safety Measures

Location

Hotel features

Summerfield Park

Dhamma-Talaka Peace Pagoda

Birmingham Oratory

Birmingham International Airport

Coventry Airport

East Midlands Airport

Prince Hotel

Birmingham

child-bed

child-bed-fee

external-private-bathroom

private-bathroom

shared-bathroom

10-beds

11-beds

12-beds

13-beds

14-beds

15-beds

16-beds

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18-beds

19-beds

2-beds

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3-beds

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39-beds

4-beds

40-beds

5-beds

6-beds

7-beds

8-beds

9-beds

king-bed

queen-bed

limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

sunrise-view

sunset-view

water-view

with-view

annex

basement

main-building

1-bedroom

2-bedrooms

3-bedrooms

4-bedrooms

5-bedrooms

6-bedrooms

not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

Firstly, the manager of the hotel is extremely kind as he allowed me to cancel and re book at short notice due to an emergency situation.
The room in the annex was very clean, the bed linen spotless, and the bed comfortable. Tea and coffee making and TV in room. A hairdryer would have been my only desire but for overnight not a big deal.
Staff polite and helpful. Breakfast very good, fruit, cereals, toast and eggs and cheese etc. Will definitely use again.

Overnight stay

The hotel was well sited next to the Hagley Rd, but far enough to be fairly. The hotel actually consists of three buildings, the nice looking part you see in pictures and then the two annexes which are actually separate houses next door and across the street. I was located in a room at the top of the annex in front. Two sets of step and narrow stairs. The large room was basic and clean although in need of repairs, touching up of paint etc. The lady that greeted me seemed a bit off hand, but the guy at breakfast next day was delightful.

Basic hotel.

Firstly I’d like to start with how helpful the lady was who checked me in (and out, 1.5 hours later). Very friendly, pleasant and apologetic. I cannot fault her at all.

I booked this hotel as I have a job interview in the morning. And am now typing it from a nearby Travelodge. I can’t speak for the main part of the hotel, but I was taken over to the “annex” - a large house over the road. As soon as I entered I could hear families, babies crying and children shouting. I was taken up to the top floor. After an hour of being in the room I could not bear it. I did not feel safe, I was worried about my car being parked outside and wondering if it would be there in the morning. 

I booked a nearby Travelodge and left, telling the woman on the desk I could not sleep due to the noise of all the families in the annex. She agreed and said “yes they are very loud” which leads me to believe that they are families who work at the hotel, or are refugees.

Either way, it was not good.

Checked out after 1.5 hours.

Do not trust this hotel at all as they never stick to their own words. Very poor management.They say something but act differently. Not happy at all about my conversation and agreement with the manager.
Disappointing

Not trustable

First impression of the hotel from the outside was that the hotel looked really nice. A really smart, tidy looking hotel from the exterior. I was initially quite looking forwards to staying here. Once we entered the front door of the hotel this is where it started to go downhill.  
We paid £68 for an overnight stay with breakfast for two adults and one child. 
We went to check in and as we were paying we were told that we were eating in the next room. When we looked in the next room there were dust sheets everywhere and the decorators were busy in that room decorating. This was a concern but we just assumed it would be fine by the morning. We were shown to our room which was on the opposite side of the road in a separate building which was different but not necessarily bad. 
First impressions of the room were that it was a massive let down. There was mould on the bed, on some of the walls , around the windows and in the shower, rust on the the bathroom fittings, cigarettes burns all over the bathroom (though there were no smoking signs in the room), torn curtains in the bathroom and a strong smell of cannabis in the room.  
During the night there were a lot of people coming and going through our part of the hotel and though this wasn't the hotels fault the noise of the door slamming and the people arguing in the corridor seemed to echo and be amplified though the hotel. My partner had very little sleep during the because of the noise that night.
The morning came and the one thing that could have saved my opinion of the hotel was  really nice breakfast. I was expecting to see things like bacon, sausages, beans and fried eggs. We walked into the room  and the first thing that we noticed was that the dining room still smelt really badly from the decorating the previous day. We were told to help ourselves to the buffet. We got to the buffet table and was greeted to cereal, toast and jam, babybels, some fruit and boiled eggs. If I had known that this was the breakfast before I booked the hotel i would have chosen to eat elsewhere. 
My overall thoughts of the hotel were that once I entered the front door of the hotel, non of my expectations about this hotel were anywhere near met and I will not stay here again.

Really nice looking hotel from the outside. That's it

I have been staying at the Prince Hotel for many months now and used to book all the time through booking.com however the owner told me to book direct through him as it would be more convenient and sometimes cheaper.

I want to warn other potential paying guests inform that The Prince Hotel located in Birmingham; should not be advertised as a ‘Hotel’ for the following reasons...

- The ‘Hotel’ is a ‘live in home’ for people and families that are waiting to get housed by the council/housing association.

- As a paying customer who comes to Birmingham to work at the weekends I have been kept awake day and night by crying children and noisy people that are staying there (who are not paying customers might I add!)

- I complained about this on a number of occasions and especially after one of the mothers had the cheek to have a go at me for asking her to keep the noise of her child down; whilst I was trying to sleep! And I was told that if I didn’t like it maybe I should find somewhere else to stay!

This ‘Hotel’ is more like a live in crèche/home to people that don’t work create noise and upset to paying guests like myself!

I have also noted the last maybe two months I have stayed here I seem to be the only paying guest that does stay here. Every room in the place is full with these people on council waiting lists.

I certainly won’t be staying again and I will be leaving reviews to let other potential guests not to stay here as I think it’s disgusting the way they have been, showing such disregard to a regular paying guest like myself.

Warning to future paying guests

This is very much a live review. I'm sitting at the rather nice desk in one of the downstairs bedrooms of the Annex to the hotel. In reality, The Prince is an Edwardian detached brick-built house which has been cleverly adapted into an 'hotel'; the 'Annex' is another detached house across the road. The conversion is quite good; the room is quite nice, with a large comfortable bed, some decent furniture - though no room for a wardrobe, just a rack on the wall. There is a television (untried) and all the normal accoutrements of this level of accommodation.

The shower room is good-ish, with a roomy shower, a less roomy place to dry oneself after having a shower. It is well lit, which doesn't do it any favours, as there is mould on the ceiling - evidence that the fan doesn't work very well.

The breakfast is good, though there are no cooked options. There is good fruit, a good selection of cereal, and a Continental platter that is pleasant in the main, though the inclusion of 'BabyBel' cheese does it no favours. The staff are pleasant, and the coffee and tea are passable.

You may think, therefore, that this is a more than acceptable budget Hotel for the location. You would be wrong.

All of this is a mere adjunct to the fact that there is at least one family living in a flat on the first floor of this 'Annex'. My thoughts are that they are either owners or permanent staff members with older children. I have not been nosey enough to find out. I have, however, been woken early in the morning on two of the three nights we have been here. The latter awakening was initiated by a gaggle of young ladies gathered by the front door talking very loudly at 4:00am. Sleep was impossible, as they were right outside our window. At 4:25 (!) someone let them in, at which point they - laughing and 'shushing' each other loudly rumbled through the corridor and made their way to their destination room, after which there was a period of noise still loud enough to disturb us in our room until there was eventual silence fifteen minutes later; all apart from one more incident - loud footsteps ran up and down the corridor and cries of "Nikki, Nikki" (we think) "where ARE you!" followed by a hushed conversation and then, thankfully, silence.

Too late, however, for me. I am wide awake and writing this review. My poor wife has managed to get back to sleep but I am now stuck at my computer for the next few hours thinking rude words and not doing any work due to my being shattered! It is 5:18am as I close and I do not feel well-disposed to this hotel.

You can put a gloss on all sorts of amenities and services in an hotel, but if you don't get the basics right - the 'This is a place for people to pay for a night's sleep' basics - it has to be a very poor hotel. The waste plumbing is loud, and so disturbs if someone upstairs goes to the bathroom; the shower room has mould and a very small space in which to dry one's self, and it is impossible to sleep through the semi-drunken herd of young 'ladies' which appear to accompany the accommodation. This, I am afraid, is a VERY poor hotel, and we shall not be returning - even though the price is low-ish and the location is ideal for our visiting our son, daughter-in-law and new granddaughter.

Prince Hotel

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