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Sheraton Skyline Hotel London
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Four Stars in London
- Heathrow Airport
Heathrow Airport, Bath Road
, Heathrow Airport, London, UB3 5BP
+44 (0) 20 8759 2535
http://www.sheraton.com/skyline
This is the 70s looking building that sits next to the main runway at LHR.
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classic hotel
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Sheraton Skyline Hotel
London
Reviews
Plane spotters rejoice. - There really isn't much to choose between this (the original Heathrow Sheraton) and the other one but after staying at both hotels within a few days of each other I can say with qualification that this is the superior one.
First off it is closer to the airport, it sits right outside the main runway and if you get a room on the 3rd floor at the front you can geek out and watch planes land every 45 seconds. I sat there in my dressing gown eating my breakfast watching a succession of 737s, 747s, A319s, A321s, 777s, 767s and other assored aeroplanes touch down. I imagine it would have been an exciting place to watch BA38 touch down the other day.
But if you don't know your 747-200s from your 747-400s (hint, it's all in the winglets) there is still plenty to be happy about here. Firstly, it is a very inexpensive hotel, you can secure a regular room with inclusive breakfast for about a hundred quid. Excellent value when you consider that a two star hotel minus brekky will set you back eighty quid.
It also has a reasonable fitness centre and a very pretty outdoor atrium area in the middle of the hotel that houses the apparently world famous Sky Bar. Unfortunately it was March when I visited there so I didn't fancy braving the wind and rain to get myself a G&T.
If you stump up another forty or so quid you get an upgraded room with a minibar, flatscreen TV and use of a bath robe. This I can live without but you also get free admission to the happiest couple of happy hours in Heathrow. From 6-8PM you can drink yourself silly, the barman took some kind of perverse pleasure watching a couple from the North of England drink themselves slowly into oblivion with no signs of them hitting their consumption limit.
On the downside the whole hotel is being renovated so some of the facilities are unavailable. This is of course a good thing but right now you might find that parts of the hotel are closed. For example the favoured third floor rooms are being totally gutted and replaced.
A carbuncle of a building it may be but the surgeon's knife is being wielded to bring the Skyline kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Good breakfast too!
17-03-08
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airport hotel, classic hotel
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