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Where to stay

Practical London guides tagged Where to stay.

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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 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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Covent Garden piazza seen from above in late afternoon light: the glass-roofed market building and its colonnade, cafe umbrellas and crowds on the cobbles below, and central London rooftops stretching away behind

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Best Areas to Stay in London: Where to Sleep, Not Where to Visit

The area you most want to visit is often the worst one to sleep in. London's areas compared on what a room costs, how much you can walk to, and what is open in the evening.

  • Where to stay
  • Hotels
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Planning
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Shad Thames in black and white: tall Victorian brick warehouses either side of a narrow street, crossed overhead by a row of iron gantry walkways receding into the distance

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Where to Stay in Bermondsey and London Bridge — and the Walk Nobody Prices In

Bermondsey hotels from a £180 boutique to a room in the Shard. The night train that actually serves the area, and why its two ends are three-quarters of a mile apart.

  • Where to stay
  • Hotels
  • Bermondsey
  • London Bridge
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Covent Garden Piazza at dusk: the market building's stone colonnade and balustraded upper gallery above a Caffè Concerto terrace of yellow chairs and white umbrellas, with hedging in the foreground and crowds crossing the cobbles beyond

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Where to Stay in Covent Garden — and What the Premium Actually Buys

The identical hotel room is £100 in Covent Garden and £70 ten minutes east in Holborn. The hotels compared, the windowless rooms nobody flags, and where to stay instead.

  • Where to stay
  • Hotels
  • Covent Garden
  • Planning
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Coal Drops Yard's curved zinc kissing-roof sweeping up to meet the glass-walled upper level, with a cast-iron gasholder frame and glass apartments behind, crowds on the railed walkway above brick arches and a busy plaza with market stalls below

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Where to Stay in King's Cross and St Pancras

Eurostar wants you inside St Pancras 75 minutes before departure and the first Tube is 05:29. King's Cross hotels compared, plus the cheaper areas just outside.

  • Where to stay
  • Hotels
  • King's Cross
  • Eurostar
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The Devonshire on the corner of Denman Street in Soho: a red-brick Victorian pub with dark green tiling and gold lettering reading 'Ales, stouts, wines and spirits, Soho since 1793', ivy along the ground floor and a planted roof terrace above, with a modern glass office building rising behind it

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Where to Stay in Soho and the West End

West End hotels compared — including the windowless rooms that make Piccadilly Circus cheaper than its reputation — plus the quieter areas five minutes out.

  • Where to stay
  • Hotels
  • Soho
  • West End
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The Royal Albert Hall's red-brick and terracotta rotunda under a blue sky, with the Prince Consort memorial column and its bronze statue of Albert in front, and pedestrians crossing the plaza and steps below

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Where to Stay in South Kensington — and Why a Victorian Tunnel Decides It

A 433-metre tiled tunnel runs from the Tube to the museums, and it is the reason to sleep here. South Kensington hotels compared, the evening nobody warns you about, and the areas nearby.

  • Where to stay
  • Hotels
  • South Kensington
  • Museums
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A studio room with a bed, a sitting area with a bench sofa and cushions, a full-height wardrobe and a screened bathroom beyond

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London Aparthotels: When a Kitchen Beats a Hotel Room

Twenty-six London aparthotels, what the six operators actually differ on, and the one number that decides whether the format saves you money or just costs more.

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  • Hotels
  • Planning
  • Families
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A London hotel room with a double bed, a patterned throw, teal bedside tables and lamps lit either side of an upholstered headboard

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London Day Rooms: Booking a Hotel Without Staying the Night

245 London hotels sell rooms by the day, at 21% to 69% off the overnight rate. What the windows are, which ones open at 7am, and when it beats a left-luggage locker.

  • Where to stay
  • Hotels
  • Planning
  • Heathrow
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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.

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  • 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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London's Capsule Hotels: What a Night in One Is Really Like

London has five real capsule hotels, not the eleven the listicles claim. What the berth is like, what's shared, the rules nobody mentions, and which one to book.

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  • Hotels
  • Budget
  • Planning
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The open lobby at The Hoxton, Shoreditch: a brass ring chandelier over armchairs, an exposed brick fireplace, a herringbone bar under a Hoxton Grill sign, and a red bus passing the window

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Where to Stay in Shoreditch — and the Cheaper Streets Just Outside It

Shoreditch hotels compared, which streets are loud at 2am, and the areas within fifteen minutes where the same night costs half as much.

  • Where to stay
  • Hotels
  • Shoreditch
  • Neighbourhoods
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