A ticket toss from the station, three meticulously restored Victorian townhouses in a Paddington side-street have been reinvented as ‘an affordable boutique hotel’.

This distinctive hotel close to Marble Arch and Hyde Park retains a bijou feel, despite sprawling across seven Georgian town houses and two mews homes.

‘Extremely nice staff’ create a ‘comfortable, homely atmosphere’ at this elegant town house hotel on the way to Hyde Park.

The air of a cool London club permeates this inconspicuous Marylebone bolthole an easy stroll from Regent’s Park.

In one of those atmospheric London entities – a street that feels like a village in the heart of the capital – this hip pub-with-rooms assumes the role of community hub, yet has ‘a great location’, within minutes of frenetic Oxford Street.

This delightful ‘dotty’ hotel was once home to that Victorian purveyor of nonsense verse Edward Lear.

Close to the hurly-burly of Marylebone High Street, the Miller family’s hotel ‘remains a well-polished haven of rather eccentric good care’.

In chic yet quirky Notting Hill, visitors can live like a local at this eclectic Victorian house.

Celebrating its eclectic locality, this vibrant hotel occupies a row of five white stucco Victorian houses.

A hop, skip and jump from Soho and the West End theatres, the zesty embrace of art and colour characterise this hotel as one of Tim and Kit Kemp's Firmdale group.

It may have put its years of rock’n’roll excess behind it, but this hotel on ‘an elegant street in Notting Hill’ has lost none of its eclectic charm.

Sculptor Fernando Botero’s ten-foot high bronze cat cheekily pokes its tongue out at guests in the lobby of this buzzy Firmdale hotel.

This revamped north London landmark-turned-luxury hotel is the jewel of regentrified King’s Cross.

‘Exquisitely refurbished.’ Peter McKay and Douglas Blain have cultivated ‘an oasis of civilisation’ within a decadent cluster of Soho’s Georgian houses.

Guests are bowled over by this tranquil Soho hotel.

With its classic red brick facade, smartly suited doormen and Knightsbridge location, the hotel has offered the same ‘splendid’ intimate hospitality for almost half a century.

Like its neighbour, the British Museum, this Bloomsbury town house hotel displays impressive antiques and curios along with historical links to the rascally duke of Montagu – but it also has comfortable beds and excellent service.

Location, location, location: the small but perfectly formed Levin is just a credit card toss from Harrods, close to the designer stores and cultural hubs of Knightsbridge and a stroll from the green lungs of Hyde Park.

A quiet country house atmosphere lingers at this plush former diplomats’ club close to Green Park.

Sanctuary has long been sought (and found) at this calm, comfortable town house hotel.

All is serene at this handsome 1860s town house hotel (Firmdale Group) just minutes from Hyde Park.

West End experiences of every kind are on the doorstep of this well-heeled hotel in ever-buzzing Theatreland.

On frenetic Leicester Square, a majestic terracotta building – once a popular Parisian style brasserie designed by Walter Emden – is now a modern Art Deco-inspired hotel.

A gleeful mix of vintage furnishings and striking artworks mark this ‘beautiful, very quiet hotel’ as a Firmdale mainstay, ideally situated for Theatreland.