Budget Hotels & Hostels
Apartments
Guesthouses and B&Bs
The Rookery Hotel
Clerkenwell, Shoreditch & Spitalfields
This absolute charmer is a warren of 33 rooms that has been built within a row of 18th-century Georgian houses and fitted out with antique furniture (including a museum-piece collection of Victorian baths, showers and toilets), original wood panelli...
Bingham
Richmond, Kew & Hampton Court
Just upriver from Richmond Bridge, this lovely riverside Georgian town house is an enticing boutique escape from central London, with 15 very stylish and well-presented, art deco inspired rooms...
Hazlitt's Hotel
The West End
Built in 1718 and comprising three original Georgian houses, this is the one-time home of essayist William Hazlitt (1778–1830)...
Clink78
Hampstead & North London
This fantastic 500-bed hostel is housed in a 19th-century magistrates courthouse where Dickens once worked as a scribe and members of the Clash made an appearance in 1978...
The Re London Shoreditch
The East End & Docklands
Among the best value is the Days Hotel group, part of the Days Inn chain but with little extras and rooms between £69 and £125...
Oxford Hotel
Notting Hill & West London
For a humble establishment the 21-room Oxford sure tries hard with its sunny yellow walls and blue-checked bedspreads, although the swirly carpets in the breakfast room and the dodgy stairs are a reminder of how tired things can get here...
Days Hotel Waterloo
Greenwich & South London
Among the best value is the Days Hotel group, part of the Days Inn chain but with little extras and rooms between £69 and £125...
Grange Langham Court
The West End
This 60-room hotel has a lovely black-and-white tile exterior but rather ordinary guestrooms and public areas (who chose the tartan armchairs and that diamond-patterned carpet?). But it’s in a great location just north of Oxford St and Soho.
Grange City Hotel
The City
There are some things that women travellers are almost guaranteed to experience when roaming away from home, and trying to put on make-up in a dimly lit hotel room is one of them...
The Halkin
Kensington & Hyde Park
With very muted Asian influences and an excellent Thai restaurant (Nahm), the chichi Halkin is for business travellers of a minimalist bent...
The Lanesborough, A St. Regis Hotel
Kensington & Hyde Park
Where visiting divas doze and foreign royalty hang their crowns, this former hospital’s (St George’s) lavishly appointed guest rooms exude a regal opulence...
Holiday Inn Express London Limehouse
The East End & Docklands
Express by Holiday Inn is the most upmarket of the chains listed here, and is most notable for its clever locations...
The Rubens At The Palace
The West End
Opposite Buckingham Palace, it's perhaps not surprising to find that Rubens is a firm favourite with Americans looking for that quintessential British experience...
Melia White House Hotel
Hampstead & North London
This enormous 545-room hotel in a stylish white-tile art deco building is unsurprisingly popular with groups, and its rooms are rather on the flouncy side...
Metropolitan London
The West End
In the same stable as the Halkin, the 155-room Metropolitan is another minimalist hotel – ‘stripped of nonessentials’ (as they say) and decorated in shades of cream and burlwood...
Durrants Hotel
The West End
This sprawling 92-room hotel, just behind the Wallace Collection and excellently placed for Oxford St shopping, was once a country inn and still retains something of the feel of a gentleman’s club. The same family has owned it since 1921.
New Linden
Notting Hill & West London
Light, airy and beautifully designed, the New Linden is a very classy option located between Westbourne Grove and Notting Hill...
Claridge's
The West End
Claridge’s, with 203 rooms, is one of the greatest of London’s five-star hotels...
City Hotel
The East End & Docklands
This 109-room place is hardly no-frills, but it’s got a long way to go before it features in Wallpaper magazine...
The Soho Hotel
The West End
One of London’s hippest hotels, the Soho is in a converted car park just off Dean St...
The Mandeville Hotel
The West End
This wonderful deluxe hotel, within listening distance of the Wigmore Hall and within view of the Wallace Collection, has 142 luxuriously appointed guestrooms designed by Stephen Ryan...
The Connaught
The West End
Even after a recent makeover by four leading designers the Connaught still feels like a grand English country manor in the centre of London, although perhaps one where the young lord has recently taken over and brought with him a more modern sensibi...