Welcome to the London Hotel Guide where a hand picked selection of the best London Hotels are reviewed with links to online London hotel booking with substantial discounts. Compared to the rest of Britain, London hotel accommodation is expensive, but good value London hotels can be found and the range of London accommodation is very wide with London hotels to suit all budgets.

Listed below are a selection of some of the best London hotels, based on personal experience and the recommendations of hotel guests. More information on hundreds of London hotels can be found at TravelNow Global Reservations who also have online booking facilities and substantial discounts on London hotels.

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Deluxe London Hotels:

• Brown's Hotel, where Theodore Roosevelt was married in 1886 and the first successful British telephone call was made by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 is the oldest deluxe hotel in London and traditionally English.

• The Connaught Hotel at Carlos Place, Mayfair, W1 is one of the world's best luxury hotels and a grand old London institution. Owned by the Savoy group, this is one of London's most exclusive luxury hotels. Excellent staff and high quality food make this one of London's best hotels. 90 rooms, 2 lounges, cocktail bar, grill room and restaurant.

• Halkin Hotel, an elegant London hotel with excellent food and good facilities including fax, video and twin telephone lines in each room. Located in a residential street in the Belgravia area, this small London hotel has 41 rooms with 24 hour room service. Modern italian food of high quality is served in the restaurant, while up-to-date financial news and information is available to business clientele from Reuters.

• Hyatt Carlton Tower Hotel in Knightsbridge is one of London's most opulent hotels. All 224 rooms are air-conditioned and other facilities include a gym and workout studio, sauna, steam room, solarium, beauty and hair salon and valeting. A tennis court is located in Cadogan Square opposite the hotel.

• The Ritz is probably London's most famous deluxe hotel where afternoon tea is something of an institution.

• The Savoy at The Strand, WC2 is also a charismatic and distinctive luxury London hotel. Good food and excellent service, with a wide range of facilities including a fitness gallery, rooftop swimming pool, restaurants, air-conditioning in all rooms, and much more.

• myhotel in Bloomsbury is a new addition to London's hotels, designed with the help of a leading Feng Shui expert.

  Mid-Priced London Hotels:

• Abbey Court: A small well kept up-market London hotel located in a quiet side street in Notting Hill. Each room has fresh flowers, mineral water, bathroom items and a complimentary morning newspaper. A good breakfast is served in the conservatory or can be brought to your room. Afternoon snacks and tea are also served in the conservatory. However this hotel has no lift and lots of stairs, so is not suitable for the infirm. All 22 rooms are en suite with whirlpool baths and marble bathrooms. Bedrooms comprise 6 singles, 6 twin/doubles, 7 doubles and 3 four-poster with family rooms available. Facilities include television, hair-dryer, trouser press,telephones and room service. The Abbey Court is excellent value for a London hotel and is recommended in the Good Hotel Guide and the Which? Hotel Guide.

• Byron Hotel is a friendly and unpretentious London hotel with pleasant decor. The hotel is only a few minutes walk from Kensington Gardens.

• Commodore Hotel London is a good, moderately priced London hotel in quiet surroundings that is recommended in Time Out and Fodors. Facilities include a tapas bar with satellite TV and a cozy lounge. One of the best London hotels for families, with an impressive array of teddy bears and easy access to Hyde Park. 90 rooms.

• Cranley Gardens Hotel in South Kensington is a conversion of four Georgian Terraces and has 85 bedrooms. This is a family-run hotel, offering high quality service and is well decorated. Bedrooms include 15 single rooms, 39 twin rooms, 20 doubles and 11 family rooms, with most rooms having en-suite facilities. All rooms have televisions, telephones and hair-dryers, while some also have a mini-bar and trouser press.

• Eden Plaza Hotel is part of a mid-priced London hotel chain aimed at business and leisure travellers. A bistro and bar are available on the ground floor.

• Harrington Hall Hotel is an elegant, privately owned London hotel. The large bedrooms are well equipped for a London hotel in this price-range, with message telephones, mini-bar, tea and coffee and a trouser press. The hotel also has a small fitness centre and sauna as well as conference facilities and a business centre.

• Knightsbridge Green Hotel which is a well run London hotel recommended in Karen Brown's Guide and the Good Hotel Guide. Free tea and coffee is provided in the club room from 9am to 8pm. All 27 rooms are air-conditioned and double-glazed. Excellent value for money.

• Montague Hotel is a conversion of nine Georgian town houses in Bloomsbury, near the British Museum. Facilities include a spacious and comfortable lounge and a bar with a garden terrace as well as a restaurant. The bedrooms are small, but come equipped with trouser press, hairdryer, satellite television and tea and coffee making facilities.

• Sloane Hotel is another London hotel recommended by Karen Brown's Guide. A small hotel in Chelsea with a rooftop reception/dining room which gives excellent views.

• White House Hotel is a large hotel near Regents Park with an elegant marble-floored foyer and a pleasant basement wine bar as well as a cocktail bar with evening pianist. The hotel also has a staffed business centre. 584 bedrooms.

  Budget London Hotels:

• Hamilton House is a good budget London hotel, in Victoria. Rooms are en-suite and have televisions and telephones.

• La Gaffe - a small, comfortable Hotel in an 18th Century Hampstead Cottage. Hampstead is one of London's 'villages', an attractive, up-market residential area with pleasant pubs, restaurants and easy access to Hampstead Heath, a huge park with good views of the city. La Gaffe has been run by the same friendly, family proprietors for 36 years - Bernard and Androulla Stella. Breakfast is served in the coffee bar while in good weather, tea is served on the roof garden. All 16 rooms are en suite and an Italian restaurant is downstairs. Central London is 20 minutes away from the nearby underground station.

• Comfort Inn Hyde Park is one of a number of good quality budget hotels in London run by the Comfort Inn chain. The other hotels are Comfort Inn Kensington, Comfort Inn Westminster, and another option in Hampstead - Comfort Inn Hampstead.

For information on more London hotels in all categories, or to book a hotel online, TravelNow Global Hotel Reservations is recommended. They also offer a free search facility to help you find the cheapest flights and car rental for your trip.
A good source of information on group travel arrangements for meetings; seminars and conventions is the BellWether Group who offer free meeting planning and travel arrangements for groups. A recommended guidebook on British hotels is Karen Brown's 99 England, Wales and Scotland : Charming Hotels & Itineraries. - she also has an informative web site.

Self-Catering London Apartments:

If you prefer the freedom of choice offered by the self-catering option, Aston's Budget Studios and Aston's Luxury Apartments are good choices.

London Hotel Areas:

Chelsea and Kensington are trendy, up-market areas of central London and Kensington is particularly convenient for museums and shopping. Marble Arch is less trendy but convenient for Hyde Park and the shops at the west end of Oxford street, including Selfridges and Marks and Spencer. The West End is the most central London location and theatres, pubs and restaurants are all literally on your doorstep. However West End Hotels tend to be more expensive to reflect this convenience. Bloomsbury is another good central location, near the West End and the British Museum, with hotels to suit all budgets. Hampstead is an up-market North London suburb that retains a 'village' atmosphere and is about twenty minutes by tube from central London.

Hotel Chains in London :

Many people prefer to opt for one of the well known international hotel chains when staying in a new city and London has many to choose from. The most popular of these are listed below and all of them have rooms available at a substantial discount when booked through TravelNow Global Reservations - click on the relevant hotel for more details.

• Best Western Hotels: Best Western Hotels in London include the Best Western Raglan Hall, in the suburb of Highgate; Best Western Phoenix, within walking distance of Hyde Park and Oxford Street; Best Western Bryanston Court, near Marble Arch and Oxford Street; Best Western Mostyn, also near Marble Arch; Best Western Hogarth, in Kensington; Best Western Great Northern near Kings Cross Station and Best Western Mornington, near Hyde Park.

• Forte Posthouse Hotels: Forte hotels in London include the Forte Posthouse Hampstead, Forte Posthouse Regents Park, Forte Posthouse Kensington, Forte Posthouse Bloomsbury, Forte Posthouse Cumberland on the corner of Oxford Street and Park Lane overlooking Hyde Park, Forte Posthouse St Georges adjacent to All Souls Church and close to the BBC's Broadcasting House in a central but quiet location at the north end of Regent Street; Forte Posthouse Cavendish near Picadilly Circus, Forte Posthouse Strand Palace in Covent Garden and Forte Posthouse Le Meridien Piccadilly in the West End.

• Hilton Hotels: Hilton Hotels in London include the Hilton International London Regents Park, Hilton International London Mews in fashionable Mayfair, a 72-room London Hotel that occupies the site of the area's oldest house, The Cottage, built in 1618; Hilton International London Kensington a large 5 star hotel in Kensington; Hilton International London Langham in London's West End and the London Hilton Park Lane overlooking Hyde Park which was recently voted number one Business hotel in the UK by Business Traveler Magazine.
  The Hilton London Kensington is currently running an excellent room only offer at a substantial discount through TravelNow, for details click here.

• Marriott Hotels: Marriott Hotels in London include the Marriott Hotel London Grosvenor Street in London's West End; Marriott Hotel London Marble Arch; Marriott Hotel London County Hall opposite the Houses of Parliament and the Marriott Hotel London Regents Park.

• Radisson Hotels: Radisson Hotels in London include the Radisson Hotel London Savoy Court at Marble Arch; Radisson Hotel London Kenilworth in Bloomsbury and the Radisson Hotel London Vanderbilt in Kensington.

• Sheraton Hotels: Sheraton Hotels in central London are the Park Lane Sheraton, a five star hotel overlooking Green Park; the Sheraton Belgravia Hotel, near Hyde Park and a few minutes walk from Harrods; as well as Sheraton Park Tower in Knightsbridge, also near Harrods. Sheraton also have two London Hotels near Heathrow airport - Sheraton Heathrow and Sheraton Skyline.

For a city guide to London restaurants, pubs, museums and sights visit our London Links page.

Web page by Mark Southgate, University of Nottingham, University Park Nottingham NG7 2QR United Kingdom.
E-mail:lqyrms@nottingham.ac.uk Page last updated: September 1999. © Copyright 1998/1999. London Hotel Guide.