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The Ritz hotel is as synonymous with glamour and grandeur as the city of London itself. Over 100 years old, it still remains one of the original examples of sophisticated living and refined exces…

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If you want to pretend you're rich and famous then there's no better place than the Dorch. This is the hotel where celebrities come to hide from (or court) the media. After the Jude Law 'nannygat…

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Another classic from the folks at the Firmdale group who have been single-handedly making London an altogether more beautiful place with their crop of off-the-wall hotels that combine zany design…

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Even after a recent makeover by four leading designers the Connaught still feels like a grand English country manor in the centre of London, although perhaps one where the young lord has recently…

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A true grande dame on the London hotel circuit, the majestic Claridge's is as splendid today as it was when it first opened its doors in 1854. It's a wonderful reminder of a bygone era with every…

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A grande dame of epic proportions, this gorgeous hotel oozes old-style Hollywood glamour. The Savoy is so swish it's even got its own road, Savoy Street, that runs off the Strand (and is the only…

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St Christopher's Shepherd's Bush operation is right in the middle of the action with no curfew and the tube and a sprawling pub right on the doorstep. The accommodation is rather cramped, but spe…

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This 54-bed branch of the popular hostel chain is five minutes from Camden tube station along the high street, atop the very busy Belushi's bar, which has a 02:00 licence. Staff are very friendly…

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This fabulous 350-bed hostel brought to you by the same people who own nearby Ashlee House is housed in a 19th-century magistrates courthouse where Dickens once worked as a scribe and members of …

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This 80-bed hostel in a four-storey Victorian terrace house has a newly refurbished bar below it as well as TV lounge, kitchen facilities, luggage storage and internet access. It's a somewhat fra…

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This excellent 193-bed hostel stands in the very shadow of St Paul's Cathedral and directly opposite the Tate Modern. Rooms have mainly two, three or four beds though there are 19 rooms with five…

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The facilities at this large flagship YHA hostel are very good, but the location is a bit remote. There's a bar, a restaurant, kitchen facilities and a laundry. Dormitory rooms have between four …

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The Earl's Court YHA hostel has had a remake in recent years but the great atmosphere remains. The whole place is cheerful but basic: most accommodation (186 beds) is in dormitories of between fo…

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This hostel has 201 beds and is built into the 17th-century Jacobean wing of Holland House, overlooking Holland Park. It's large, very busy and rather institutional, but the position is unbeatabl…

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The most central of London's six hostels is basic, clean, loud and not particularly all that welcoming. Most of the 76 beds are in twin rooms though there are dormitories with three and four beds…

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This very sterile but clean former student residence on a large leafy square has 91 singles and doubles. It is easily reached on foot from the Victoria train and coach stations as well as the Tat…

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This 87-room place is not exactly no-frills but has a long way to go before it features in Wallpaper* magazine. Still it's at the southernmost extreme of Brick Lane so is well suited for those wi…

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This 60-room hotel has a lovely black and white tile exterior but rather ordinary guestrooms and public areas (who chose the tartan armchairs and that diamond-patterned carpet?). But it's in a gr…

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For a humble establishment, the 21-room Oxford sure tries hard with its sunny yellow walls and blue checked bedspreads, although the swirly carpets in the breakfast room and dodgy stairs are a re…

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Its 30 rooms across three floors are quite generic, but the Mad Hatter feels slightly homier than most chain hotels, thanks to its traditionally styled reception area and an adjacent pub bearing …

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Base2stay has endeavoured to filter out all the 'unnecessary' extras most hotels offer and concentrate on the 'important' things like communications facilities, music systems and kitchenettes. Th…

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This enormous 545-room hotel in a white-tile Art Deco building might appear a bit 'standard issue' inside and too used to welcoming groups. But the location, just west of Regent's Park and within…

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With tasteful Regency furniture throughout the lounge and immaculate bedrooms (plus discreetly placed plasma TVs etc), this 48-room hotel just north of Hyde Park is a classic example of a renovat…

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Tipping its cap fairly determinedly at the professional traveller, Kingsway nonetheless manages to provide 170 smart, comfortable and very central rooms for anyone with less business and more pla…

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Ever popular French chain has four apartment blocks throughout the city, including a Holborn/Covent Garden branch (7395 8800; 94-99 High Holborn WC1).

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Neatly perched on the slope down Richmond Hill leading across Petersham Meadows towards the Thames, the Petersham offers stunning, Arcadian views at every turn. And its restaurant, with its large…

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This wonderful new deluxe hotel, within listening distance of the Wigmore Hall and within view of the Wallace Collection, has 142 luxuriously appointed guestrooms designed by Stephen Ryan. What w…

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A cut above your average pub hotel, the 34-room Sanctuary lives up to its name, although it's just a few minutes' walk from Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. The style is very much …

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This one-time car park takes the easyJet approach to selling its rooms - book long enough ahead and you might get a room for as little as around 59 a night. The 205 guestrooms are simple but well…

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Its less-than-inspired name notwithstanding, this stylish place was one of London's first boutique hotels and still bears the classic boutique combination of colours (blacks, greys and reds) in i…

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This sprawling 92-room hotel, just behind the Wallace Collection and excellently placed for Oxford St shopping, was once a country inn and still retains something of the feel of a gentleman's clu…

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Just a block west of Berkeley Sq, the 110-room Chesterfield comprises five floors of refinement and lustre hidden behind a fairly plain Georgian town house. It has ceilings with mouldings, marble…

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The glorious Edwardian splendour of this renovated old pile still lives on in the heritage-listed Palm Court, the splendid hall where a certain Lonely Planet author is known to have once taken hi…

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A 'slice of New York urban chic' just a stone's throw from Covent Garden, this Philippe Starck-designed hotel is so cool you'd hardly notice it was there. ('What, in that glass box?!?') Its 204 r…

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The Knightsbridge occupies a 200-year-old house just around the corner from Harrods and has elegant and beautiful interiors done in a sumptuous, subtle and modern English style. Some of the 44 ro…

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This elegant 200-room hotel is famed for its fabulous close-up views of the Thames and the Houses of Parliament. It was formerly the headquarters of the Greater London Council; the atmosphere in …

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The demand for designer digs was so strong in London a few years back that even the Hilton got in on the act with this tastefully minimalist hotel on the south side of Trafalgar Sq. Now it's beco…

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'Elegant' and 'intimate' are two words constantly used to describe this well-located and recently renovated boutique hotel, which is pretty funny considering the proprietors also own the overblow…

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There seems to be nothing but praise for this new boutique hotel with a dozen rooms. Sister property to the Capital Hotel and its fabulous Capital restaurant with two Michelin stars, it doesn't n…

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Named by Condé Nast Traveller as one of the world's finest hotels before it opened, the 50-room Haymarket in a John Nash building next to the Theatre Royal is further proof that London is becomin…

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