Central Hall Westminster Reviews Summary

Venue & Location

Pros:

• "Beautiful architecture, you can easily spot the building from far away."
• "An other classic venue in central london,just over 100 years old,and still a place of worship."
• "Came to Central Hall Westminster to attend a Fever event: 'Candle light Nutcracker and ballet'. The venue is majestic."
• "The centre Hall is a beautiful piece of architectural wonder and acoustic Marvel."
• "The hall is absolutely beautiful with a gorgeous traditional interior, sparkling chandelier, polished wooden staircase banisters and royal burgundy carpeting."
• "This place is a wonderful hall for music."
• "Central location! Interesting architectural style. Not too poosh but special. Good facilities. Easy accessible."

Cons:

• "Most of the ladies toilets not working, involving a long trip to the basement."
• "The gaps between seating rows must have been designed for children under 12."
• "The rows of seats are too close together for my long legs."
• "No cloakroom facilities, which is crazy for a venue like this."
• "However I was seated downstairs and because it has zero inclination we could not see the performance very well."
• "The upper seats are the worst I've ever seen, of you are normal height."
• "The whole place had clearly been nice once, but now looked run down and tired."

Staff & Service

Pros:

• "Staff helpful and friendly."
• "The staff are friendly obliging, helpful and engaged."
• "The staff was efficient and friendly."
• "Staff are always friendly & helpful & manage to disguise high security."
• "Staffs are very friendly."
• "The staff made me feel welcome."
• "Excellent staff on the door and at the bar too."

Cons:

• "WENT TO SEE JAMES CORDEN..... AFTER WAITING FOR AN HOUR I WAS TOLD THAT THEY WERE FULL EVEN THOUGH I HAD A PRIORITY TICKET. #TIMEWASTED."
• "The security team were aggressive one of the men physically assaulting a woman at the entrance for no reason whatsoever."
• "For my admittedly short visit, the guard (old bloke in a suit) was an utterly unbearable arse."
• "The stewards I spoke to said they had no idea what was going on and they didn't come from London."
• "Staff didn't have proper idea about seat numbers and many people were roaming around trying to find seats."
• "The staff at this venue are a complete disgrace."
• "Terrible organisation for a central London venue."

Concert & Performance Experience

Pros:

• "Visited Central Hall to see Candlelight: Hans Zimmer's Best Works and loved the concert and venue."
• "Madness of course were exceptional."
• "A great concert. Would like to see more events here."
• "The atmosphere was amazing with the lights."
• "Went to the hans zimmer candlelit concert here tonight and it was sensational!"
• "The candlelight concert was a splendid experience."
• "Amazing experience delivered impeccably by very talented artists."

Cons:

• "Went to the Nutcracker etc by Candleight. It lasted one hour. This was a perfectly good time but for £44? Seems expensive."
• "The big negative for me was that people didn't wait for the final piece and were taking picture throughout which was distracting"
• "Plz don't let little kids in as advertised in your app/website! - There was a newborn ish in our concert and at times it was a bit distracting, thanks"
• "However as a venue its shockingly bad."
• "Went to string quartet experience by candlight on 1st April. Marred by incessant rumbling from underground railway throughout."
• "But they let on so many late people everything was delayed from starting at least 20 minutes."
• "It’s a shame I’ve had to mark down the venue/concert because of one person’s actions, but hopefully staff will be more vigilant in the future and refuse entry to those too intoxicated to understand and appreciate the event they’re attending."