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

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

Along a narrow lane, a lamb-chop toss from Smithfield market, Clerkenwell’s hubbub surrenders to the ‘club-like’ calm of Peter McKay and Douglas Blain’s tumble of 18th-century houses.

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

‘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.

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.

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.

A Gallic oasis created by four Parisians (Experimental Group), this small hotel occupies a couple of red-brick Victorian town houses with a literary past, off busy Covent Garden Piazza.

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

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.

‘Simple, well located and representing good value’, this small hotel with a pretty, flower-decked Georgian exterior is ‘remarkably quiet’ considering its prime position in bustling Covent Garden.

In chic yet quirky Notting Hill, visitors can live like a local at Caroline Main’s eclectic Victorian guest house.

Galleries, antiques and arthouse cinema – oh my! Buzzy Bermondsey is home to trendsetting London culture and this youthful, privately owned hotel.

Style-conscious, budget-friendly and well located – a winning combination for this ‘excellent-value’ hotel within easy reach of London’s financial and cultural quarters.

Georgian ‘Grand Taste’ and sybaritic comforts are the trademarks of Peter McKay and Douglas Blain’s eccentric hotel in gentrified Spitalfields.

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

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.

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

‘Convenient for Heathrow,’ wrote readers flying from Australia. They so ‘loved the feel’ of this gastropub with rooms half a mile from Richmond Park that they were planning a return visit.

Handy for the Square Mile and the West End, this hip hotel conversion of a Victorian warehouse, in its 15th year, is on its best form yet.

A theatrical verve and ‘exceptionally nice staff’ at this Clerkenwell Georgian town house have visitors ‘raving about it’.

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

Old meets new at this Georgian inn, built to serve local coal workers, that now overlooks the stark modernity of Canary Wharf.