Name: Rising Sun Hotel
Address: 138 Greenford Road, Sudbury Hill, London, London, London, HA1 3QL, United Kingdom
Rating: 4

24-hour reception

Smoke-free property

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English

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Sudbury Hill

South Harrow

Sudbury Town

Harrow

Playgolf London

Loftus Road Stadium

Hyde Park

London Heathrow Airport

Madame Tussauds

Victoria and Albert Museum

Buckingham Palace

The British Museum

National Gallery

Big Ben

London Eye

The Shard

Tower of London

Tower Bridge

London City Airport

Wycombe Air Park

London Luton Airport

Farnborough Airport

Blackbushe Airport

London Gatwick Airport

London Stansted Airport

Rising Sun Hotel

London

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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

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not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

What can I say, the rooms are great for what we want which is to sleep in and have a shower in the morning. Free car parking, great route to Wembley whether you want to walk (about 2 1/2 miles) or catch a bus. Pub attached to it which is always open. Only downside is we haven’t tried the food as it’s always buffet style on a Saturday which is when most of the England games are great on, smells lovely though! Bit dated but they are doing it up slowly, does that matter? Not really. Can’t honestly fault the place, will hopefully be staying there for many years to come 🙂


Great place to stay

The restaurant is a converted pub. Seating is rather different - long tables mostly, although there are smaller tables in the alcove area.
We had a groupon voucher (starter, main + side, dessert) but on the day we went for dinner, there was a big group so the restaurant set up a buffet and we were offered that (if we wished). We took advantage of that and were not disappointed at all. There was a great selection of meat and vegetarian dishes and dessert (fruit salad only). The food was tasty, some dishes were quite spicy. They had an "appam" station which was great, cooked fresh for you, really delicious.
Staff were very pleasant and service was good. The buffets are usually on Friday-Sun and priced at £13.95 pp. I think it's good value at this price.

Restaurant review (not hotel)

The Rising Sun Serves a buffet every Friday, Saturday and Sunday with Live music on Sunday evenings. So you have options should you wish to have a conversation then avoid Sunday evening but if you like live music or had an argument with your partner Sunday evening is best.  

If you wish to park then you can register your car inside to get a permit.

Now down to the food, you get a good selection of dishes and at £13.95 per head this is great value. 

Had the following:

Egg Hoppers (Appa) - Classic dish but I have had better so a little disappointed. 

Mung Dahl - This was a yellow dal and great flavour and touch of spice but excellent dish. 

Batu Moju (Eggplant Curry) - Aubergine Moju - A new dish to me and happy they had this as I may not usually be a fan of Eggplant but i know many that are but i would have this again for sure as it compliments the buffet well. 

Crispy Spinach - Sorry i did not get the actual name and i enjoyed it but i think personally it was a little too dry for me. 

Mutton Curry - Another good dish and i had to go back for seconds with rice. 

Chilli Chicken - Crispy batter on the bone. I just was not in the mood for on the bone food but it was a nice tasting item but i only tried a small part.

Watalappan - An exotic cousin of cream caramel, watalapan is a kind of steamed pudding prepared with eggs, coconut milk, jaggery (natural local sweetener), and spiced with cardamom. Although  I am told there are better versions of this it was a subtle taste and not too overpowering. 

I know they do revolve the dishes so if you have a favourite worth calling and also worth booking in advance. 

I think this is great place to try and very reasonable for a buffet. Do give this a try but I think they could just have better hoppers and more flavour to their desserts to really lift this further. But a good variety of dishes including some fish dishes so should be something for everyone.

Review of the Restaurant not hotel

From the moment we arrived we were disappointed. Staff didn't know what they were doing. Finally checked in, took to room. First impressions very shabby room. Hotel needs a total refurbishment or demolition. No rails in wardrobe, just nails to hang up stuff. Bathroom sink broken, being held together with sellotape. Tap nearly dropping off. Shower looked terrible. Was a dirty takeaway foil container in drawer. There was a constant loud buzzing noise all night. We all had to buy earplugs. Absolutely terrible.

Worst hotel experience 

This was booked at the last minute to see a concert at Wembley. Good location with lots of transport links to the stadium but the room was very basic, tatty and unclean in places. The window wouldn’t close and I was kept awake by noisy traffic. Bathroom not nice at all and the shower was barely hanging on the wall. Bed linen was clean and the bed itself was comfy and the staff were pleasant enough but for anything other that a crash pad after a gig, I would avoid.

Ok if you are desperate

Booked here rather than premier inn as we have 3 children so needed a bigger family room. Did read the reviews but very little choice at short notice booking. The bed linen was clean and beds comfy, but the carpet was vile (dirty/smelly and damp in one area) with visible dirt under beds and down the side of the sofa. Walls were shabby with dirty marks, the room had mismatched and Ill fitting curtains, a mildewy bathroom and out of 4 lights in the room (wall lights and ceiling) only one worked and this had electrics hanging out of the wall. Ignore the reviews at your peril.

Dirty carpets

Sort of place you wipe your feet on your way out. 

Room stank of fags, bedding like a sheet of loo paper, room resembled a prison cell,  had to wash via sink as shower simply did not work, it was either scolding hot or bitterly cold.  Grumpy Rothman chugging lady who checked me in insisted on seeing my banking app to confirm I had wasted my money checking in here, then insisted on keeping my driving license in case I wanted to steal the cockroaches.  

Had to phone the place from my room this morning to ask how the hell I check out and get my probably already cloned driving license back as there isn't even a reception.

Absolutely no peace and quiet whatsoever - windows are as old, damaged and useless as the hosts so ffs don't rely on a peaceful night's sleep.

I've stayed in some dumps, but trust me, this is unique, and a dreadful experience I'll never forget.

What a dump

We were advised on several occasions our hot water would work, ran for 30 seconds then stone cold also only had a tiny heater. So no access to even basic amenities for duration of our stay! Hairdryer didn’t work. There was a rat/mousetrap right by our bed, black mold in bathroom. The lock on our was literally ahold which they’d filled in. Avoid staying here at all costs if you want to freeze etc  AVOID AT ALL COSTS even when you complain about the hot water nothing is done to sort out issue completely not even worth 1 star only decent thing was the bed

Beyond disappointing

I booked the family room for 5. Upon arrival we collected the key for our room and when we got upstairs the door was very difficult to even unlock as the handle and lock was hanging out and very temperamental. The room was very cold and only 2 electric heaters supplied which were not very good. The beds were very uncomfortable, sheets were clean. The windows were rotten and walls need new paint. Miss matched curtains that were falling off, hair dryer and tv both don’t work. 
The hot water lasted 5 minutes and with 5 people who wanted to shower this was useless, the bath was covered in limescale and look very old and dirty. 

Unpleasant experience

Smells on opening door, rooms- walls disgusting, shower disgusting wouldn’t use, windows thin could hear everything outside.portable heaters radiators didn’t work. Lady friendly, Colin refused all our money back. 

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