Hotels are the most familiar (but rarely the cheapest or most interesting) places to stay
General: Hotels
From hotel savings to better booking engines, alternative accommodations to lodging rip-offs, here is the best lodging advice around
There are dozens of hotel alternatives, from London flats to country cottages, farmhouse B&Bs to university dorms, rental rooms to residences, and campgrounds to castles. Here's how to find the lot of them.
Of all London's boutique inns, this Chelsea hotel succeeds the best at leaving behind the aura of impersonal hotel to create instead a cozy private home feel—with discreet hotel comforts—in a building from the 1800s
This Old World, clubby Mayfair hotel with a residential ambiance is consistently lauded for its service, food, and ambiance
A posh five-star luxury hotel overlooking the Thames in the heart of Westminster's government centre
A five-star, countryside-meets–modern design hotel perfectly sited between the west End, British Museum, and Marylebone
An 11C castle become a Relais & Chateaux hotel between Southampton and London in West Sussex
The Leonard links four 18C Marlyebone townhouses for a British atmosphere with an Imperial touch
A true old coaching inn, with cozy modern room above an 18th-century Greenwich pub
This hotel is about as downtown as you can get, just a block from Bath Abbey and just off the river
A quiet, ten-room hotel in a 16C building in the heart of Oxford
A half-timbered medieval coaching inn on the River Avon
This classy Mayfair hotel has been popular with writers since 1937 and hosts one of London's most traditional afternoon teas
Just off Brompton Road, near the chicest boutiques and the shopping at Harrods, the red brick townhouse Egerton House, opened in 1990, offers Victorian comfort with a modern touch.
The Pelham is an oasis of tranquility in a busy road hub in South Kensington, mere steps from a Tube stop and blocks from the shopping of Brompton Road
A modern, four-star hotel on the Strand between the West End and The City
A deluxe hotel with its own hot springs baths just 100 meters form the ancient Roman baths
A cheap chain hotel in The City, between St. Paul's and the Tower of London
A cozy and friendly moderate Covent Garden hotel on a pedestrian street
Basic, bland motel with a great location—and attached to one of London's most historic pubs where Shakespeare once drank
A cheap (for London) chain hotel bang in the center of London's West End
A familiar chain hotel just down the road from Stonehenge
Standardized comfort in a 13C hotel in the center of Salisbury
A reliable mid-scale chain hotel across the Cathedral
