Hotel between Paddington station and Hyde park.

We always stay in this area. Very convenient to several tube station, a number of good pubs for meals and a pint and easy walking to Hyde Park. We have always felt safe here with no worries about walking around at night. Check out Lancaster Hall www.lancaster-hall-hotel.co.uk. We have stayed here several times and find it very nice and fairly inexpensive for London. We will be there again in early June.

We stayed there in September 2013. We were headed elsewhere in the country so we stayed there one night upon arrival and again on our last night. It is just a very short walk to paddington which was handy. We felt perfectly comfortable in that area. We walked to Hyde Park upon arrival to shake off jet lag. Do try to get a decent sized room though. The first one was tiny but we were so tired it didn't matter. The second room was larger and had been renovated.

This section of London is known for inexpensive hotels. All the way from Paddington Station down to the northern border of Hyde Park is filled with reasonably priced hotels and B&B's.

Good transportation in this neighborhood of London. Several blocks south of your hotel is Bayswater Road, which runs east-west, forming the northern border of Hyde Park. Many bus routes travel along Bayswater Road (Number 94, 148, 274, 390 and N207) can be used to take you all the way across London and to some of the tourist attractions. Tube stations in your area will give you access to the tube. Pick up both a tube map and a bus route map when you arrive, free at any station, and give it a quick study. Also study a map of London before you go, so you will know your way around.

Use the map on this page to see where your hotel is in relation to the tourist attractions:
http://www.londontoolkit.com/accommodation/bayswater_briefing.htm
Your hotel is underneath the label "Paddington". If you are an avid walker, you can walk through Hyde Park to Kensington Palace or Buckingham Palace, and then on to Westminster Abbey. You are a short walk, to the east, to Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. Also walking distance to the east is the British Museum.

This is not a "posh" area of London, but it is as safe as any neighborhood. It also has some wonderful inexpensive ethnic restaurants, such as kebab shops and Indian restaurants. In London, that's a real find. Many restaurants are SO expensive, like $60 to $150 per person easily for dinner in posh sections of London.

I think you will like this section of London, unless you are looking for luxury. Not sure about your choice of the exact hotel you have chosen, as I have not stayed there. But there are plenty of hotels to choose from in the Bayswater area, and plenty to choose from all over London.

Try to get an idea, from the hotel website information about the room, or from website photos, how large the room is and how wide the bed is. This is difficult information to get but worth the effort to try and get it.

I've taken a quick look at the website you provided, and while it gives bed widths, I didn't see dimensions in square meters or square feet of the rooms in the rates section.

The problem is that some room rates in some areas of London, almost guarantee you an unbelievably (to the American eye) narrow room, cramped and with a smaller width bed crammed against the wall.

And a cramped bathroom, with the front part of the toilet virtually under the wash basin.

I've stayed in this kind of room, once, because I liked the rate--but wouldn't do it again, realizing I'd rather pay more even though London is one of the more expensive hotel cities in Europe.

These rooms are just fine for the traveler who knows what she is getting and not getting, and to whom price is the overriding consideration.

Since it's only 4 nights, you'll want to decide whether you would rather pay somewhat more to get a room that you're more comfortable coming back to after a long day walking.

Kent is right. In London, inexpensive hotel rooms can be unbelievably small.

You are buying three things in a hotel room in London. 1. Room size. 2. Location. 3. Amenities/luxuries.

I have stayed at the Hilton Hyde Park. This is in the Bayswater area. The Hilton Hyde Park rooms were well-decorated and my room was the size of my bedroom at home (large). I liked that. And it was not expensive for London.

If you want an American-size room, you may have to resort to one of the chain hotels. They were built to cater to the American taste for large roomy bedrooms and baths. Also, some of the budget hotels have only a double bed, because there's no room for anything else. The American chain hotels have queen and king size beds. When I come in from sightseeing and walking all day, I want a comfortable bed!

Now for a suggestion that is not a chain hotel; for a small hotel with charm. Have you looked at the Aster House, which is mentioned in the Rick Steves London guidebook? It's not in the budget category, but it is cosy and comfortable with a good breakfast. It is not in Bayswater. It's in a better location, South Kensington:
http://www.asterhouse.com/

As others have said, this isn't a posh area of London, but it's just fine and not known as an area to avoid. Your less than a mile or two's walk from Oxford Street, Bond Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben etc., right on the door step of Hyde Park and well connected with buses and tubes. I don't know the hotel itself. I'm in this area regularly and never have any issues. But as with anywhere new to you... keep your brain switched on, and you'll be just fine. Hope you enjoy my beloved city!

Thanks everyone. This makes me feel good about our location. We booked a room here for 4 nights after spending 5 in the Cotswolds just west of Oxford/Blenheim. ... now all we have to do is figure out our Visitor Oyster Card and London City Pass, and buy flight tickets.

" now all we have to do is figure out our Visitor Oyster Card and London City Pass"

Before buying a London City Pass, read this thread; you'll see it isn't usually a good deal: https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/england/are-there-any-coupon-codes-discounts-for-the-london-visitor-s-pass

You may do better with a regular Oyster Card (which has a refundable deposit of £5) than a Visitor Oyster Card (which has a non-refundable deposit of £3).