Fawlty Towers eat your heart out: Robert Hardman checks into the 'worst hotel ... Daily Mail
Since I have arrived to the fore of the photographer, I rather selfishly decide to grab the front room and leave him to overlook the rear.
Going for a turn, it's a strange atmosphere. There don't appear to be many - or any - guests. It's early evening, but the bar is shut and the restaurant is closed.
I bulge into the owner who asks me if I have set off a fire alarm as he thinks he has heard one going. I can hardly blame him for being a little paranoid.
Because the Grosvenor has not only reasonable been awarded the title of 'The dirtiest hotel in the United Kingdom'. It has clinched the European title, too.
Sketch on its database of 30 million reviews by members of the public, TripAdvisor, the U.S.-based international about website, has just handed out its annual brickbats using customers' own ratings.
And it's extremely bad word for our tourism industry, because eight of the ten 'dirtiest hotels in Europe' are British. Of these, six are in London, one is in York and, right out in front, is the Grosvenor.
