Where to Stay Near London Bridge: The Best Hotels in Borough, Southwark & Tower Bridge (2026)

The Shard, the station and More London. The three hotels at the station are the ones to book if the walk from the platform matters more than anything else. Shangri-La The Shard is the splurge: 202 rooms and suites on 18 floors of the Shard, starting at level 34, with floor-to-ceiling windows, TĪNG restaurant, GŎNG bar and what the hotel calls London's highest infinity pool. The station is a one-minute walk, Borough Market four and Tower Bridge 13. For a birthday, a proposal or a once-only night in London, this is the room I'd pick, and it holds a 4.6 on Google across nearly 2,900 reviews.

Two things decide whether it's worth it. First, the view: the Shard-facing rooms look south over south London, so book a City View room, which faces north over the river, Tower Bridge and St Paul's. Second, the bill. Expect about £670 on a November Tuesday and £540 on the Sunday, before breakfast. One guest who compared it with other London five-stars felt the price wasn't matched by the room, and the pool is small and busy, calmer after 5pm.

London Bridge Hotel is the independent four-star directly opposite the station entrance on London Bridge Street, and the one I'd send most couples to. The station is a two-minute walk, Borough Market two and the Shard three, with the Londinium restaurant for the £19 buffet breakfast, the Quarter Bar for afternoon tea and a gym open 7am to 10pm. For groups and families, three two-bedroom apartments (92 sq m, full kitchens) sleep up to six.

The catch is the standard room: compact, with a queen bed, and windows that open only a little. It's also the clearest example of this area's weekly price swing: about £348 on a Tuesday, £148.20 on a Sunday. There's no car park and no valet; the nearest is the NCP on Kipling Street. Ask for a high floor, which guests describe as very quiet, and book a Deluxe room or Studio Suite if you need a sofa bed for two children.

Hilton London Tower Bridge sits among the glass offices of More London, a one-minute walk from London Bridge station and eight to both Borough Market and Tower Bridge. It's a big, predictable Hilton with a restaurant, a cocktail bar, a 24-hour gym and adjoining rooms for families, and 4.4 on Google across more than 3,000 reviews. For points collectors, or anyone who wants a brand they know by the station, it's a safe choice.

It's also one of the dearest weeknight rooms here: about £513 on Tuesday 10 November, roughly halving to about £268 on the Sunday. It's a conference hotel, and one guest had to walk through conference crowds to reach the gym. For midweek dates, London Bridge Hotel opposite the station is cheaper and has more character.

Tooley Street by Tower Bridge. East along Tooley Street, two listed public buildings have become the area's two most characterful hotels. The LaLiT London is the former St Olave's Grammar School, a Grade II-listed 1890s building by E.W. Mountford, the architect of the Old Bailey, turned into 70 'classrooms' and suites by the Indian LaLiT group in 2017. The old assembly hall is now Baluchi, its Indian restaurant; there's also Teacher's Bar, an Ayurvedic spa and a 24-hour gym. Tower Bridge is a three-minute walk, London Bridge station six and Borough Market 13.

Read the room names carefully. The cheapest Cosy Classroom (16 sq m) is sold for one adult only, so a couple starts at the Junior Classroom (24 sq m, queen bed); ask for one of the rooms with the 30-foot ceilings. Rates run about £432 on a Tuesday and £171 on a Sunday. Guests love the building and the staff but find Baluchi quiet on some nights. It's also one of the few hotels here with parking: £40 a night, first come, first served.

The Dixon is the Edwardian Tower Bridge Magistrates' Court of 1905, police station and cells included, now a 193-room Autograph Collection hotel named after its architect, John Dixon Butler. The judge's bench is the marble counter of the Courtroom Bar, Shakedown is the restaurant, and dogs and cats are welcome in the rooms and the restaurant for a £50 fee (one pet per room, up to 34kg). Tower Bridge is a four-minute walk, London Bridge station eight and Borough Market 14; Bermondsey (Jubilee line) is 15 minutes the other way.

Rooms are the weak spot for the money. The entry King rooms are 20 to 25 sq m, and in hot weather recent guests found the cooling struggled and were handed portable coolers. Book a Superior (21 to 30 sq m) or above, and ask for a room that keeps the original high ceilings and fireplaces. Expect about £386 on a Tuesday and £203 on a Sunday. For a couple who likes a story with their hotel, I'd pick this or the LaLiT over the Hilton.

Bermondsey Street and Tower Bridge Road. South of the station, under the railway arches and down Bermondsey Street, is the quieter, more local half of the area, with good restaurants and a ten- to 15-minute walk to everything. The Bermondsey Square Hotel is a 90-room independent on the square at the end of Bermondsey Street, ten minutes' walk from London Bridge station on Google's routing (the hotel itself says 15) and 16 from Borough Market. On the hotel's own engine, breakfast is included, and dogs stay for £20 a night with a bed, bowls and treats.

The Superior Double is 21 sq m, from £323 on a Tuesday and £152 on a Sunday, prepaid; members pay £252 and £119. The Terrace rooms (24 sq m) share a terrace over the square, the family rooms (35 sq m) add a sofa bed, and the Lucy in the Sky penthouse has its own hot tub. The catches: no gym (day passes at a nearby gym are £10) and no parking, and some of the furniture is tired. For a quiet room, ask for a Club on a high floor: one guest paid about £20 extra for a 5th-floor Club and heard nothing from the street or the neighbours.

Residence Inn by Marriott London Tower Bridge, further down Bermondsey Street, is an all-suite hotel built for longer stays, with a 24-hour gym, free evening socials and breakfast included in the rate. It's ten minutes' walk to London Bridge station, 15 to Borough Market and 12 to Tower Bridge, with Borough on the Northern line 15 minutes away. For a family or a work trip of a week, where a suite beats two hotel rooms, it's the most practical option in the area.

The honest catch is the address. As one reviewer put it, it's a little outside the heart of central London, and every day starts with a ten-minute walk before the Tube. Rates run about £362 on a Tuesday and £155 on a Sunday. If you'd rather cook than eat out every night and don't need Marriott points, Bermonds Locke round the corner is usually cheaper.

Bermonds Locke on Tower Bridge Road is 143 studios and apartments, each with its own kitchen, plus a gym, a yoga studio, a courtyard, a coffee bar by day and a bar and lounge in the evening. It's a nine-minute walk to Tower Bridge, 11 to London Bridge station and 17 to Borough Market. For a stay of four nights or more, or for anyone who wants to shop at Borough Market and cook, it's my pick of the Bermondsey side: studios from about £277 on a Tuesday and £122 on a Sunday.

The trade-offs are apartment ones. Cleaning is weekly, not daily, breakfast costs extra, and there's no Tube station close by. One recent guest's air conditioning failed. Ask for the City Studio – Skyline View: it's only 2 sq m bigger than the 26 sq m City Studio but sits on the 6th floor with views across London. For a terrace, book the double-height Courtyard Suite. Dogs are welcome.

Premier Inn London Tower Bridge is next door to Locke on Tower Bridge Road, and the budget choice for anyone arriving by car: on-site parking costs £31 a night, with a 2.5m height limit, though spaces are limited and you're inside the Congestion Charge zone. Tower Bridge is a nine-minute walk, London Bridge station 11 and Borough Market 17. The restaurant and bar are open 24 hours, every room has air conditioning, and there are family and accessible rooms.

Its Standard rate was £172 on Tuesday 10 November and just £78 on the Sunday, with a room with a city view from £194 midweek. The catches: it's further from the station than the name suggests (Premier Inn's own directions say 12 minutes), and Tower Bridge Road is busy, so ask for a room at the back.

Travelodge London Bermondsey, on Tanner Street behind Tower Bridge Road, is the cheapest proper hotel room in the area on a Sunday: £48.99 on 15 November 2026 against £153.99 on the Tuesday, on Travelodge's non-refundable Lowest Rate (Flexible was £171.99 midweek). It's an 11-minute walk to London Bridge station, nine to Tower Bridge and 15 to Bermondsey on the Jubilee line, with air-conditioned rooms and SuperRooms on their own floor with a coffee machine and a better shower.

Travelodge itself describes the hotel as on the railside, and guests hear trains day and night. Pay extra for the 'Choose Your Room' floor plan and take a high floor away from the tracks. It holds 3.9 on Google, from only 161 reviews, and a couple of guests note that standard-room Wi-Fi is free for 30 minutes only. There's no parking; the NCP on Kipling Street charges £34.95 for 7 to 24 hours.

Borough High Street and Borough Market. West of the station, Borough High Street runs south past the market to Borough station, and two Premier Inns put you closer to the market than almost anything else. Premier Inn London Southwark (Borough High St) is a five-minute walk to Borough Market and Borough (Northern line), six to London Bridge station and the Shard. It's the one I'd book on a budget: air conditioning in every room, double glazing that guests praise, family and interconnecting rooms and an accessible wetroom.

The Standard rate was £221 on a Tuesday and £101 on a Sunday; a room with a city view, looking across to the Shard, starts at £240 midweek. The entrance is down a short alleyway next to the Tesco Express, which throws first-timers. Rooms aren't serviced unless you ask, and there's no parking on site.

Premier Inn London Southwark (Bankside) on Park Street is the closest budget bed to Borough Market: three minutes' walk, with The Anchor pub on the river next door, London Bridge station eight minutes and Tate Modern 11. Guests single out how quiet the rooms are and how comfortable the beds, and it's one of very few hotels this close to the river with parking: four spaces at £15 for 24 hours, first come, first served.

The price is the same as its Borough High Street sibling midweek (£221 on a Tuesday) and cheaper on the Sunday (£84). What you give up is freshness: reviewers call the furniture dated and the rooms simple. Ask for a room away from the street; one guest's room above the entrance was very quiet.

Bankside and Southwark Bridge Road. The riverside strip west of Borough Market, around Tate Modern and the Globe, has the biggest cluster of mid-range hotels, all within about 15 minutes of Borough Market and 10 to 17 of London Bridge station, and closer still to Southwark on the Jubilee line. Native Bankside is the one with character: serviced apartments in the Empire Warehouse, a converted Victorian tea warehouse on cobbled Bear Gardens, about 110 metres from Shakespeare's Globe. It's seven minutes to Borough Market and Tate Modern and 12 to London Bridge station, and it holds a 4.6 on Google.

Apartments have kitchens, dishwashers and washer-dryers, from 20 sq m studios to an 81 sq m two-bedroom that sleeps five, and guests call it peaceful. There's no daily housekeeping and no restaurant, and one guest found the Wi-Fi and air conditioning patchy. On Booking.com it ran about £413 on a Tuesday and £209 on a Sunday; the brand's own site quotes studios from £158 on quieter dates, and members get 15% off.

Novotel London Bridge on Southwark Bridge Road is the family workhorse: 24 sq m Superior rooms with a queen bed and a single sofa bed, Superior Premium and Executive rooms for four, a gym, a restaurant, pets welcome and paid parking. Borough Market is five minutes' walk, Tate Modern eight and London Bridge station ten. It holds a 4.4 on Google across more than 3,500 reviews.

Two catches. The bathrooms are open-plan, which one reviewer found awkward for privacy (fine for a couple, less so for colleagues or teenagers), and the sauna and hammam are closed for maintenance with no reopening date. It ran about £369 on a Tuesday and £166 on a Sunday. For a family, ask for the Superior Premium room rather than squeezing four into a Superior.

ibis Styles London Southwark, two doors from the Novotel, is the best-value full hotel on this side, because breakfast is included: an unlimited continental buffet in a rate of about £289 on a Tuesday and £121 on a Sunday. It has 154 rooms, walk-in power showers and a bar, and scores 4.5 on Google across more than 2,700 reviews. Borough Market is six minutes' walk, Tate Modern eight, London Bridge station ten.

Rooms are compact: The Queen is 16 sq m. The Double room with iconic view is 17 sq m and the one to ask for, and The Works Suite (28 sq m) sleeps four on a double and a sofa bed. Luggage storage costs £5 a bag unless you're an Accor member.

citizenM London Bankside on Lavington Street, behind Tate Modern, is the design-hotel budget option: self check-in at kiosks, tablet-controlled rooms with a big bed against the window, and a canteen and bar downstairs open around the clock. Tate Modern is six minutes' walk, Borough Market eight and Southwark station eight. For a solo traveller or a couple who only need a bed and a shower, it's well run; 4.5 on Google across more than 2,400 reviews.

The rooms are small, as they are at every citizenM, and tight for two with luggage. There's only one lift for five floors, no cups in the room and ironing stations downstairs rather than in rooms. Some rooms look straight into others across the courtyard, but guests on the courtyard side say it's quiet. It ran about £288 on a Tuesday and £156 on a Sunday.

Mercure London Bankside on Southwark Street is the four-star I'd book if Tate Modern and the Globe are the point of the trip: 144 rooms, with a French bistro (Bistro Mirlot), a lounge bar that also serves afternoon tea, and a fitness room. Tate Modern is five minutes' walk, Southwark station eight, Borough Market nine and London Bridge station 13. Pets are allowed in the common areas and service dogs are welcome everywhere.

The cheapest Cosy Room is only 14 sq m, so compare before booking: the Classic is 18 sq m and the Superior King 24, and the Family Room (26 sq m) sleeps four. Connecting rooms are available on request. It ran about £331 on a Tuesday and £131 on a Sunday, and there's no parking listed on site.

Hilton London Bankside on Great Suffolk Street is the one I'd book for a family who wants a pool: it has an indoor pool that reviewers describe as large and warm, rooms they call large for London with a coffee machine and mini fridge, connecting rooms and an executive lounge. Tate Modern is a three-minute walk, Southwark (Jubilee line) six, Borough Market 11 and London Bridge station 15. It holds 4.5 on Google across more than 3,500 reviews.

It sits at the quieter west end of Bankside, so the Borough Market end of the area is a proper walk rather than a stroll. It ran about £390 on a Tuesday and £234 on a Sunday, smaller weekend savings than most hotels here. One guest reported housekeeping lapses and squeaky mattresses, but the consensus is strong.

Premier Inn London Southwark (Tate Modern) is a few doors up Great Suffolk Street from the Hilton, and the cheapest of the three Southwark Premier Inns midweek: £182 on the Standard rate, £78 on the Sunday. Tate Modern is four minutes' walk, Southwark station six and Borough Market ten; London Bridge station is 15. The Social restaurant and bar is open 24 hours, and every room has air conditioning.

Check-in is by self-service kiosk and the desk is thinly staffed, so expect a queue at busy times. Wheelchair users should look at the accessible room carefully: one reviewer found the entry turn tight and the bath grab rails badly placed. Premier Plus rooms, about £31 more, add a mini-fridge, a coffee machine and faster Wi-Fi.

Holiday Inn Express London - Southwark on Southwark Street is a breakfast-included budget hotel four minutes from Tate Modern and six from Southwark station, with Borough Market 12 minutes and London Bridge station 17. There's a small lobby bar with a pool table, and 4.3 on Google across more than 2,400 reviews. It ran about £307 on a Tuesday and £144 on a Sunday.

Rooms are small and spare: no safe, fridge, luggage rack or wardrobe, though the front desk keeps a safe and fridge service for guests. One reviewer said the room was smaller than a cruise-ship cabin, and several say the breakfast makes up for it. Book it for location and breakfast, not for time in the room.