The "hotel" is just an ordinary house, with some of the rooms subdivided. There is no-one to meet you. You are sent combination codes for key boxes outside the front door and your room. You have use of the kitchen and you could cook for yourself if you wished. There is a shower room and a separate bathroom, and the water was just about hot enough in both.
Unfortunately the people staying in a couple of the other rooms came back at 3.10am and started chatting and making drinks in the kitchen, right outside our door. The guys were apologetic about waking us up and probably hadn't realised we had moved into the room, but the incident exposed a basic design flaw with this accommodation, which cannot truly be called a hotel. It is just a house and is not soundproofed any more than any modern house would be.
The other problem is with the keyboxes. The codes are so basic that it is possible to guess the codes on every door in the house, so we didn't feel our possessions were secure. Even if the codes were changed to something more imaginative, then there remains the problem that the mechanical combination has to be physically scrambled after each use of the box, and sooner or later someone will forget to do it. An electronic system (like the ones used in auto-hotels in France) would be required to overcome this problem.
The room was cheap and it was close to Warwick Uni campus (which is why we chose it), but we won't be going back.
