Close to the designer names of Fulham Road and museums of South Kensington, this ‘conveniently situated’ accommodation is a ‘home-away-from-home’ with ‘helpful, courteous staff’.

A trove of museums and galleries are a stone’s throw from this characterful Victorian hotel.

Uncluttered modern bedrooms plus a good location make easy sums at this august former boys’ school, now a smart hotel near the Olympia conference centre.

A step across the threshold transports visitors from London’s busy centre to the luxury of an Italian palazzo.

Off the tourist trail, this brick-and-tile Victorian pub (Young & Co’s Brewery), in a gentrified slice of South London, is popular with locals.

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

Once a Beatles haunt, where the Fab Four would come together, this ‘charming neighbourhood’ has close ties to an ‘ideally located hotel’ with a pleasing atmosphere.

‘An informal alternative’ to Pimlico’s pricey traditional hotels, The Orange is more like staying above a local pub – albeit a classy, artfully distressed local with an upmarket clientele.

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.

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.

Bright modernity filters through this smart, surprisingly affordable Belgravia B&B run by Charlotte and Matt Goodsall.

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

In an area of white stucco terraces, a Victorian former pub relives as a hip hotel for people who know what is good and know what they like.

Be ‘wowed’ by Olivia Byrne’s sophisticated Pimlico hotel, where ‘domesticated heaven’ meets high-spec technology.

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.

A royal warrant and a Michelin star are but two accolades held by London’s last grand Edwardian hotel, still run by the family that built it.

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

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

Front-facing rooms peep into the royal mews from the fifth floor of this historic building, overlooking Buckingham Palace.

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 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 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.