Hotel Cecil

Location of the Hotel.

The hotel is in an excellent location on College Street, easily reachable by tram route 5 (which runs directly in front of the hotel), the blue metro (10 min walk) or any number of bus routes. The staff is very relaxed, helpful and friendly. They are happy to assist with carrying luggage up to and down from the rooms (as there is no lift and the rooms are on the second floor). You can buy bottled water at any time from the nice gentlemen at the reception. Should you have to arrive late or depart early, the main door will be locked, but staff will be happy to unlock it for you. The room is not too small. The double bed is large, clean and comfortable. Never had any issue with any animals / bugs getting into the room. The bathroom is quite big and the warm water heater works well, as long as you don't forget to turn it on in time before your shower via the wall switch labelled "geyser". The shower arrangement takes some getting used to, as the whole bathroom floor serves as a shower cabin, but this is not a big problem. There is a mini-fridge which works well. The building is old and built well.

Only minor things: The toilet paper holder is below the showerhead, so if you don't remove the toilet paper before showering, it will become drenched and unusable. There is no toilet brush. There is hardly any space to place utensils/toiletries and the bar of soap at the bathroom sink. There is a small glass shelf above the sink, but it is very small and inclined away from the wall, so things will slide off, especially if the soap has touched the shelf. Cleanliness could be a little bit better around the sink and shelf.

Cozy room

AC not working. Very hot at night.

My early check in request was entertained and my family got a small room to fresh up and take some rest before they had decided to move ahead with their day tour. They followed up regularly on the call to check on me when we are going to come and all.

The location is nice since it is near to Howrah however the property looks shady and all the rooms are at 2nd and 3rd floor wth no facility of lifts. My early check in request was entertained however 20% of the token money was taken in advance over the call to make the booking final. We didn't like the rooms as they were very small, suffocating and a foul smell was coming out of bathroom. The vibes of the property was not good as well. My experience was bad and I ended up losing that token amount as penalty since it was the last minute cancellation. We found another property nearby.