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Budget

Practical London guides tagged Budget.

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Good Hotel London, moored at Royal Victoria Dock, with GOOD HOTEL in large letters on the roof and a gangway to the entrance

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The Best Budget Hotels in London, Cross-Referenced and Price-Checked

The budget hotels London's lists agree on, each priced on five nights across the year. Most of the central favourites cost more than £150 a night. These are the ones that don't.

  • Where to stay
  • Hotels
  • Planning
  • Budget
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A Zedwell cocoon room with a bed on a lit wooden plinth, a full-length mirror, hooks and a private door

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Windowless Hotel Rooms in London: Every Operator, and What the Window Costs

Six operators sell London rooms with no window at all, and all twelve Z Hotels branches have one. What you get, what daylight costs at each, and who should not book one.

  • Where to stay
  • Hotels
  • Budget
  • Planning
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A corridor of sleeping capsules at a Zedwell capsule hotel, lit strips along the floor and signage reading Cocoon 5.163-5.164 and Toilets Showers

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Pod Hotels in London: What a Night in a Capsule Is Really Like

A pod hotel in London means a capsule hotel, and there are five, from about £33 a night by Piccadilly Circus. What the berth is like, what's shared, which to book.

  • Where to stay
  • Hotels
  • Budget
  • Planning
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An open-top red sightseeing tour bus passing the Palace of Westminster

Getting around London

London Tour Buses Compared: Routes, Stops and Prices

Every Big Bus, Golden Tours and Tootbus route and stop, with what each really costs — Golden Tours from £24.78 online against £42 at the kerb — and the ordinary red bus that covers much of the same ground for £1.75.

  • Tour buses
  • Sightseeing
  • Getting around
  • Budget
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A wall of white moulded sleeping capsules stacked two high inside a London hostel, each numbered, with a hexagonal window and a steel grab handle

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The Best Hostels in London: What You Get Before You Book

Fifteen London hostels compared on the things booking sites bury: which dorms are en-suite, which have real female-only rooms, the age limits that refuse you, and what costs extra at the desk.

  • Where to stay
  • Budget
  • Hostels
  • Solo travel
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