My stay at the Leonardo Heathrow Airport Hotel was a nightmare from the moment I walked into their reception. From the people smoking at the entrance door, the overwhelming and yucky smell of cigarette smoke on the ground floor and the repugnant scent someone believed to be perfume.
Everywhere I went or whoever I met, there was a concerted effort at coercion to make me interact with drug dealers. Did I mention them stinking up the hallways with marijuana - a vomit inducing smell.The Leonardo Heathrow Airport Hotel is a hellhole of drug dealing. If you are into drugs, you are in paradise but it is not, never was and never will be my thing.
During my stay, I contacted Expedia via email once, twice on the phone, I filed a police report against the hotel with the London Metropolitan Police. A day before leaving, when the coercion and noises reached the unbearable, I contacted the Metropolitan Police over the phone. The day I was scheduled to leave at 11 a.m., a drug dealer kept me awake until 3 a.m. The manager agreed to extend my checkout time. However, the resident drug dealers kept hitting hard on the walls and around my room. I felt unsafe.
That day, I spoke with the London Emergency Police twice and they advised me to call them again at the time I was leaving. If I still felt unsafe, they would send police officers to be with me. I related my experience to the Front Desk. I ended up leaving my room at 4 p.m.