London Hotels

Guide Note

London is one of the most popular vacationing spots in England.

Fast Facts

  1. Country: England
  2. Mayor: Ken Livingstone
  3. Language: English
  4. Population: 7,512,400 (2006)
  5. Currency: Pound Sterling
  6. Country code: +44
  7. Area code: +20
  8. Time zone: GMT

Luxury Stay

If you're traveling though London and looking for the most elegant hotel you can find, try the Dorchester Hotel. This hotel has been reviewed as one of Frommer's exceptionally rated hotels. Every guest room has Irish linen sheets, cherry-wood furnishings and most rooms come with beautiful four-poster beds. Spend your day relaxing in the hotel's health club, there is a small shopping arcade for souvenir's or visit the salon for a new hairdo. Choose between three restaurants for dinner and then enjoy a nightcap in the hotel's bar. Children are welcome, babysitting is available.

Affordable Stay

The Pavilion Hotel is a small funky, laid back hotel located in central London. Popular with fashion models and music-industry folks, this is one of the most affordable places to stay. All the rooms have been designed in a funky and glamorous decor. Many rooms are themed and have names such as the "Honky Tonk Afro," "Casablanca Nights," "Better Red Than Dead" and "Enter The Dragon."

Mahalo Suggests

While planning your trip, please see London Vacation, London Restaurants, and London Tours.

The Mahalo Top 7

  1. Official Tourism Site: London Accommodation
  2. Concierge.com: London Hotels  WARNING: Pop-ups
  3. Frommer's: London Hotels
  4. Fodor's: London Hotels WARNING: Pop-ups
  5. Lonely Planet: London Sleep
  6. TripAdvisor: London Hotels  WARNING: Pop-ups
  7. Travel + Leisure: London Hotels
  • NOTE: Hotels mentioned on this page plotted on Google Maps


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London Luxury Hotels

  • Claridge's (Mayfair) Phone: 020-7629-8860 Google Map
    • Concierge.com Recommendation WARNING: Pop-ups: "Look forward to 'an old-world ambience that cannot be replicated' at this nineteenth-century Mayfair hotel. Public areas are 'gleaming and beautiful' and include a Dale Chihuly handblown glass sculpture."
    • Travel + Leisure 500 Winner: "A high-wattage hotel, as famous for its Gordon Ramsay restaurant as it is for its David Linley–designed suites."
  • The Dorchester (Mayfair) Phone: 020-7629-8888 Google Map
    • Concierge.com Recommendation WARNING: Pop-ups: "'Comfortable and luxurious,' this 1930s country-style hotel on Hyde Park, where Prince Philip hosted his bachelor party, has one-of-a-kind architecture such as octagonal corner windows and floating balconies."
    • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "One of London's best hotels, it has all the elegance of The Connaught, but without the upper-crust attitude that can verge on snobbery."
    • Fodor's Choice WARNING: Pop-ups: "Furnishings throughout are opulent English country-house style, with more than a hint of art deco, in keeping with the original 1930s building."
    • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "The guest rooms are large and beautifully outfitted with well-chosen chintz, reproductions, plush upholstery, and dozens of well-concealed electronic extras."
    • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "The beds, in fact, are among the most comfortable in London. Queen Anne and Chippendale are usually the decor styles, and the maintenance level is of the highest order."
  • The Lanesborough (Knightsbridge) Phone: 877-787-3447, 020-7259-5599 Google Map
    • Concierge.com Recommendation WARNING: Pop-ups: "Butlers attend each room, and personalized business cards and stationery are provided for every guest. Sip 200-year-old Cognac by the fireplace at the Library Bar."
    • Fodor's Choice WARNING: Pop-ups: "Guests at the Lanesborough have their own private butlers."
    • Fodor's Choice: "The service here is legendary and includes a butler on every floor. In 2005 Margaret Thatcher held her star-studded birthday party here."
  • One Aldwych (Covent Garden & the Strand) Phone: 020-7300-0500, 020-7300-1000 Google Map
    • Concierge.com Recommendation WARNING: Pop-ups: "Original decorative elements include ironwork on windows, a copper dome, and curved corners. Guest rooms have tones of creamy beige with flashes of plum or red..."
    • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "The bedrooms are sumptuous, decorated with elegant linens and rich colors, and accessorized with raw-silk curtains, deluxe furnishings..."
    • Travel + Leisure 500 WINNER: "Resolutely modern air, from the lobby that doubles as a bar to the screening room with blue leather seats."
  • The Ritz (St. James's) Phone: 877-748-9536, 020-7493-8181 Google Map
    • Concierge.com Recommendation WARNING: Pop-ups: "'Hushed murmurs, reserved laughter, and the tinkle of crystal' characterize this French-inspired Mayfair property. Fresh flowers, chandeliers, and 'the best beds in London' stand out in spacious rooms decorated in shades of pink, yellow, and blue."
    • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "Bathrooms are elegantly appointed in either tile or marble and filled with deep tubs with showers, robes, phones, and deluxe toiletries. Corner rooms are grander and more spacious."
    • Travel + Leisure 500 WINNER: "A refined residential feel, thanks to its intimate size and personal gestures like English sweets at turndown."

London Moderate Hotels

    • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "The individually designed rooms are named after romantic poets. They vary in shape and size, but all are luxuriously furnished with antiques, prints, and tasteful curios."
    • Fodor's Choice WARNING: Pop-ups: "From the moment you ring the bell and are ushered up the winding staircase flanked by antiques and curios, you know you've entered another realm where history is paramount."
  • The Zetter (In the City) Phone: 020-7324-4444 Google Map
    • Concierge.com Recommendation WARNING: Pop-ups: "This Victorian warehouse turned 59-room hotel on heavily trafficked Clerkenwell Road is missing nary a detail of what constitutes a cutting-edge big-city boutique hotel..."
    • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "Secondhand furnishings are set beside classic modern pieces. The designers certainly achieved their stated goal of "a great bed, a great shower, and state-of-the-art in-room technology."
    • Fodor's Choice WARNING: Pop-ups: "Rooms are smoothly done up in soft, dove gray and vanilla fabrics, and the views from the higher floors are wonderful. It's all lovely to look at, and a bargain by London standards."
    • Fodor's Choice WARNING: Pop-ups: "One of London's most famous hotels, the little Portobello (formed from two adjoining Victorian houses) is seriously hip, attracting as many celebrities as ordinary folk, and garnering a stellar reputation in the process."
  • Aster House (Knightsbridge) Phone: 020-7581-5888 Google Map
    • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "[I]t's a friendly, inviting, and well-decorated lodging on a tree-lined street. The area surrounding the hotel, Sumner Place, looks like a Hollywood set depicting Victorian London."
    • Fodor's Review WARNING: Pop-ups: "Country-casual rooms fill this delightful guesthouse. The friendly owners go out of their way to make you feel at home and answer questions, even loaning guests a free cell phone to use while in town."

London Affordable Hotels

  • The Pavilion Hotel (Paddington) Phone: 0207-262-0905
    • Concierge.com Recommendation WARNING: Pop-ups: "This is the cherished baby of ex-model Danny Karne and his sister Noshi, so it's not surprising the fickle fashion folk flock here. What keeps them coming back is the loony, decadent Look..."
    • Frommer's Recommended: "Until the early 1990s, this was a rather ordinary-looking B&B. Then a team of entrepreneurs with ties to the fashion industry took over and redecorated the rooms with sometimes wacky themes, turning it into an idiosyncratic little hotel."
  • B&B Belgravia (Belgravia) Phone: 207-259-8570 Google Map
    • Concierge.com Recommendation WARNING: Pop-ups: "The cost of real estate in this upmarket neighborhood doesn't bear thinking about, but at B+B Belgravia—a duo of Georgian townhouses on a residential street—you could convince yourself that you're at home, and a fine one at that."
  • Arosfa Hotel (Bloomsbury) Phone: 020-7636-2115 Google Map
    • Fodor's Choice WARNING: Pop-ups: "Those at the back are far quieter, though the double glazing somewhat tames the din of the students on their way to and from class at University College London."

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