London Hotels

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1. Official Tourism Site: London Accommodation
2. Concierge.com: London Hotels  
3. Frommer's: London Hotels
4. Fodor's: London Hotels 
5. Lonely Planet: London Sleep
6. TripAdvisor: London Hotels  
7. Travel + Leisure: London Hotels

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London Luxury Hotels

• Claridge's (Mayfair) Phone: 020-7629-8860 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "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."

• • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "That once-fading 1812 beauty has experienced a $75-million rebirth, and its staid image has changed."

• • 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 : "'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 : "Furnishings throughout are opulent English country-house style, with more than a hint of art deco, in keeping with the original 1930s building."

• Four Seasons London (Mayfair) Phone: 800/819-5053, 020-7499-0888 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "'The elegant mahogany in the lobby' at this Mayfair tower "is made playful by delightful marble statues of children.""

• • 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."

• • Travel + Leisure 500 Winner: "A refreshingly relaxed and intimate atmosphere."

• The Goring (Westminster/Victoria) Phone: 020-7396-9000 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation: "This brick newcomer next to Buckingham Palace opened in 1910, and was the last hotel to be built during King Edward VII's reign."

• • 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."

• • Travel + Leisure 500 Winner: "Old-school English service. Garden Views with king-size beds are particularly peaceful."

• The Lanesborough (Knightsbridge) Phone: 877-787-3447, 020-7259-5599 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "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 : "Guests at the Lanesborough have their own private butlers."

• • Travel + Leisure 500 Winner: "Posh Regency décor, a fantastic spa, and personal butlers."

• Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park (Knightsbridge) Phone: 020-7201-3773, 020-7235-2000 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "Rooms decorated in pale hues come with plenty of silk. Stop by the Mandarin Bar for the signature Mandarin Oriental Classic—Cognac, champagne, and a bitters-soaked sugar cube."

• • 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."

• • Travel + Leisure 500 Winner: "London’s most innovative hotel spa, set in an ideal location."

• One Aldwych (Covent Garden & the Strand) Phone: 020-7300-0500, 020-7300-1000 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "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 : "'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: "London’s most opulent hotel, known for attracting the rich and the royal."

• The Milestone Hotel (Kensington) Phone: 877-955-1515, 020-7958-7727 Google Map
  • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "All accommodations are individually and creatively decorated, though some are more theme-intensive than others."

• • Travel + Leisure 500 WINNER: "A refined residential feel, thanks to its intimate size and personal gestures like English sweets at turndown."

London Moderate Hotels

• Miller's Residence (Paddington & Bayswater) Phone: 020-7243-1024 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "Not really a hotel at all, it's the kind of place where Notting Hill bohos between homes—or marriages—move in for a month or more."

• • 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 : "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 : "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 : "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."

• The Portobello (Notting Hill) Phone: 020-7727-2777 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "The very definition of shabby chic, the decor is half high-Victorian, half colonial, with claw-foot tubs and a great deal of red velvet."

• • Fodor's Choice : "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."

• • TripAdvisor 3.5 Rating  (Note: Community Ratings; Subject to Change)

• 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 : "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."

• • TripAdvisor 4.5 Rating  (Note: Community Ratings; Subject to Change)

• Grange Blooms Hotel (Bloomsbury) Phone: 020-7323-1717 Google Map
  • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "Even though it's in the heart of London, the house has a country-home atmosphere, complete with fireplace, period art, and copies of Country Life in the magazine rack."

• • TripAdvisor 3.5 Rating  (Note: Community Ratings; Subject to Change)

London Affordable Hotels

• The Pavilion Hotel (Paddington) Phone: 0207-262-0905
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "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."

• • TripAdvisor 2.0 Rating  (Note: Community Ratings; Subject to Change)

• B&B Belgravia (Belgravia) Phone: 207-259-8570 Google Map
  • Concierge.com Recommendation : "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."

• • TripAdvisor 4.0 Rating  (Note: Community Ratings; Subject to Change)

• The Jenkins Hotel (Bloomsbury) Phone: 020-7387-2067 Google Map
  • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "All the rooms have been redecorated in traditional Georgian style, and many have been completely refurbished with new beds and upholstery."

• • TripAdvisor 3.5 Rating  (Note: Community Ratings; Subject to Change)

• Arosfa Hotel (Bloomsbury) Phone: 020-7636-2115 Google Map
  • Fodor's Choice : "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."

• • TripAdvisor 4.0 Rating  (Note: Community Ratings; Subject to Change)

London Hostels

• YHA London St. Pancras Phone: 020-7388-9998 Google Map
  • HostelWorld.com Top Rating (Note: Community Ratings Subject To Change)

• Ace Hotel (Kensington) Phone: 020-7602-6600 Google Map
  • HostelWorld.com Top Rating (Note: Community Ratings Subject To Change)

• Astor Victoria (Hyde Park) Phone: 020-7834-3077 Google Map
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