Hotels in London ★★★
The classic lodging option—generally reliable and familiar, but not always the best bargain
Hotels in London range from clubby Olde World boutiques to rambling and dodgy old pensions, Victorian and Art Deco gems to glittering castles to put on the coporate expense account. Most British hotel rooms are notoriously... uh, "cozy," but the service will be friendly and professional.
Reid's List
Of all London's boutique inns, this Chelsea hotel succeeds the best at leaving behind the aura of impersonal hotel to create instead a cozy private home feel—with discreet hotel comforts—in a building from the 1800s
This Old World, clubby Mayfair hotel with a residential ambiance is consistently lauded for its service, food, and ambiance
A posh five-star luxury hotel overlooking the Thames in the heart of Westminster's government centre
A five-star, countryside-meets–modern design hotel perfectly sited between the west End, British Museum, and Marylebone
The Leonard links four 18C Marlyebone townhouses for a British atmosphere with an Imperial touch
A true old coaching inn, with cozy modern room above an 18th-century Greenwich pub
This classy Mayfair hotel has been popular with writers since 1937 and hosts one of London's most traditional afternoon teas
Just off Brompton Road, near the chicest boutiques and the shopping at Harrods, the red brick townhouse Egerton House, opened in 1990, offers Victorian comfort with a modern touch.
The Pelham is an oasis of tranquility in a busy road hub in South Kensington, mere steps from a Tube stop and blocks from the shopping of Brompton Road
A modern, four-star hotel on the Strand between the West End and The City
A cheap chain hotel in The City, between St. Paul's and the Tower of London
A cozy and friendly moderate Covent Garden hotel on a pedestrian street
Basic, bland motel with a great location—and attached to one of London's most historic pubs where Shakespeare once drank
A cheap (for London) chain hotel bang in the center of London's West End
- Booking.com - We have done extensive testing, and Booking.com is hands-down the single best booking engine, with by far the largest number of hotels (and other lodging options) in all price ranges.Partner
- Agoda.com - This booking engine, once just an Asia specialist, has recently rocketed to second-best all around the world.Partner
- HotelsCombined.com - An aggregator looks at the results of all the booking engines and presents the prices it finds at each side-by-side. It's a great concept (and works well for airfares), however in our tests the actual booking engines themselves often offered better deals on more properties.Partner
- Hostelz.com - A booking engine that specailizes in hostels and cheap hotels.Partner
- Hotels.com - Since Hotels.com absorbed its Venere.com sibling, it has been performing much better in Europe than it once did.Partner
- Priceline.com - Priceline not only offers decent deals on standard hotel bookings, but also "Express Deals" in which you only get to know the hotel's star rating and neighborhood before you pay for it—but the savings can be substantial (usually 18%–20%, though occasionally much higher).Partner
- Hotwire.com - Like its competition Priceline, Hotwire offers both straightforward hotel bookings as well as "Hot Rate" deals that save you 25%–65% on hotels that you book blindly, knowing only the neighborhood and star rating before booking (and paying) for it.Partner
- Trivago.com - Depsite its aggressive advertising camapaigns, in our tests Trivago does not actually perform all that well as an aggregator (and it has gotten worse as time goes on). Still, it can be handy.Partner
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