We loved this hotel -- the location so close to Paddington Station made it easy to get anywhere we wanted to go and the staff was friendly and very helpful. We encountered difficulties with our reservations because I inadvertently made them through a travel agent on a spoof site and we were greatly overcharged. In addition, our reservation for our last night in London was cancelled with no notice and the Hotel Indigo Paddington was fully booked. This happened around noon on our last full day in London when we had just returned from 2 nights in Bath and we now had nowhere to stay. The manager Rax Lucero truly went above and beyond -- he called all of his contacts trying to get us 2 rooms somewhere else, but everyone was fully booked. He finally managed to get us a reservation at a small hotel a short distance away; he negotiated a better price for us, and then to our shock he picked up some of our luggage and announced that he would walk us there. He explained to the manager of the new hotel, which was in an old Victorian townhouse without an elevator, that we had been victims of a scam and made sure that we received the price he had negotiated on the phone. He then grabbed our bags and helped carry them up the stairs to our rooms. We are so grateful that he saved the last day of our trip; instead of having to spend hours trying to find somewhere else, we were free to enjoy the rest of the day.
Paddington Station is a stop on the Elizabeth line, so we were able to easily travel to it on the Elizabeth line directly from Heathrow; the hotel is half a block from the station on a street filled with restaurants and small shops.
We had such a good experience with this hotel that we're planning to go back there in December to enjoy the holiday decorations and Christmas markets. We have stayed at numerous Hotel Indigo properties around London and Scotland. I've always booked directly through IHG and I'm really embarrassed that I was tricked into making our reservations through a sketchy travel agency. Always be sure when you're googling the name of a hotel that you don't automatically choose the first result -- make sure you're on the real website!