Where to Stay in Notting Hill: The Best Hotels & Townhouses (2026)

Portobello Road and Westbourne Grove. This is the Notting Hill people picture: the pastel houses, the antiques arcades and the stalls that run for about a mile up Portobello Road on Fridays and Saturdays. Hotels are few and small here, and the Tube is a walk away (Notting Hill Gate for the Central, Circle and District lines, or Ladbroke Grove further north), but you step out into the market.

The Portobello Hotel is the one I'd book for the neighbourhood itself. Musicians, models and actors have been checking in to this Stanley Gardens townhouse since it opened in 1971, and its 21 rooms still play the part, with a circular bed in Room 16, a canopy bed and a four-poster among the bigger rooms and an honesty bar in the Sitting Room. There's a lift, which the small townhouses around here often lack. Portobello Road at Westbourne Grove, where the Saturday antiques stalls start, is three minutes on foot. It's 4.4 on Google from about 190 reviews.

It isn't a hotel for families or for one-night Saturdays. The reservation rules allow two people per room, with a child counting as one of them, and a Saturday stay needs two nights (three over some bank holidays). You eat breakfast in the Sitting Room or in bed, since there's no restaurant, and the 15-square-metre Good Rooms at the front are compact. The garden the best rooms look over belongs to the neighbours. A Good Room was £301 room only for Tuesday 10 November on the hotel's own site, and a Saturday-Sunday stay worked out at £303.50 a night, so market weekends cost barely more here.

The Lost Poet is four rooms in a Victorian townhouse at the bottom of Portobello Road, done up with wood panelling reclaimed from old school science labs, and breakfast from local bakeries brought to your room each morning. It suits a couple who want to be on Portobello Road itself and don't need a hotel lobby. Notting Hill Gate station is four minutes' walk and Westbourne Grove six. It's 4.9 on Google from about 120 reviews.

It runs like a private house. Check-in is online with a keyless app, the concierge is there from 9am to 5pm only, and the house warns that its stairs are authentically narrow and no good for big cases. With four rooms, the cheaper ones go first: The Quarters, the most compact, was £250 with breakfast for Tuesday 10 November on its own site, but for the Saturday the cheapest room left was The Suite, at £380.

The Princess Royal is a smart pub with four bedrooms above it, run by Cubitt House, on Hereford Road between Westbourne Grove and Bayswater. Downstairs there's a horseshoe bar, a dining room and conservatory and two garden terraces; upstairs the Double Rooms have king beds. It's for a couple who like the idea of a pub supper and a short walk to bed. Portobello Road at Westbourne Grove is ten minutes away, Bayswater station (Circle and District lines) 11. The pub is 4.4 on Google from about 690 reviews.

The catches are the pub and the terms. The bedrooms sit over a busy bar, the Google reviews are almost all about the food and drink rather than the rooms, breakfast is £25 each on top, and the flexible rate still takes a non-refundable deposit 14 days out. The Double Room was £260 room only for Tuesday 10 November on its own site and £310 on the Saturday.

Notting Hill Serviced Apartments is a building of self-catering studios and one-bedroom flats at 74 Ladbroke Grove, run by Concept Apartments, with kitchenettes, weekly cleaning and a coin-operated washer and dryer. It suits a couple on a budget who'd rather cook breakfast than pay for it, seven minutes from the Westbourne Grove end of the market. Ladbroke Grove station (Circle and Hammersmith & City lines) is six minutes away. It's 3.8 on Google from 80 reviews.

That score has a reason: Ladbroke Grove is a busy road, and reviewers on the street side complain about road noise and no secondary glazing. There are stairs and no staffed reception. The Top Floor One Bedroom was £125.55 non-refundable (£135 refundable) for Tuesday 10 November on Concept's own site, a lot less than Booking.com's public price for the same flat that night.

Notting Hill Gate and Pembridge Gardens. The practical end of Notting Hill. Notting Hill Gate station has the Central line (straight through the West End to Oxford Circus and the City) plus the Circle and District lines, and the quiet stucco streets just north of it, Pembridge Gardens and Pembridge Square, are where most of the area's guest rooms are. Portobello Road starts a few minutes' walk away. Notting Hill Gate itself is a busy main road of shops and buses.

The Laslett is the all-rounder, and its name comes from the neighbourhood's own history. Rhaune Laslett organised the 1966 street festival that became the Carnival, and the steelpan player who played at it, Russ Henderson, gives his name to the hotel's bar and kitchen. The hotel itself joins five listed townhouses on Pembridge Gardens into 50 rooms, with two lifts, a 24-hour desk, a treatment room downstairs and a welcome for dogs, a minute from the station. It's 4.5 on Google from about 420 reviews.

It isn't cheap for the room size. A Spare Room Double (18 to 19 square metres) was £270 pre-paid for Tuesday 10 November on the hotel's own site, or £337 flexible, and breakfast adds £52 for two. Saturdays cost more: the next room up was £308 on the Tuesday and £348 on Saturday 14 November. One reviewer found the rooms tired, and there's no on-site parking.

Ruby Zoe is the modern choice and good value this close to the station: a design hotel on Notting Hill Gate with a carnival-and-vintage theme, a 24-hour bar with pizzas and cocktails, quiet air conditioning and rainfall showers in every room. Notting Hill Gate station is four minutes' walk and Holland Park station five. It's 4.7 on Google from about 1,400 reviews.

The rooms are small (the Nest is 15 to 16 square metres, and one reviewer called their room one of the smallest of a two-week trip), check-in is self-service, and there's no room service or minibar by design. Breakfast is extra. A Nest Room was £221 for Tuesday 10 November on IHG's site, £200 for members. It's one of the few places here where Saturday was cheaper: £210 for a Cosy Room against £231 on the Tuesday.

Notting Hill House is a listed 1850s house on Pembridge Gardens turned into self-catering studios in 2022, each with a kitchenette, an en-suite shower room and a desk. The building has a real history: from 1971 it housed the Bangladesh Mission, where the Bangladeshi flag was first raised in the UK. It's two minutes from Notting Hill Gate station, and it gives you a kitchen and a private shower room two minutes from the Tube for about £133. It's 4.1 on Google from about 40 reviews.

It's a budget stay with the service to match. Reception is unstaffed and self-check-in, there's no lift, the entrance steps have no handrail, and reviewers found the portable air-con units basic and noisy. A Lower Ground Floor Studio was £132.97 non-refundable (£144.05 flexible) for Tuesday 10 November on its own site. The same studio cost half as much again on Saturday 14 November.

Notting Hill Gate Hotel is the budget family pick: a plain Victorian townhouse hotel on Clanricarde Gardens, a side street four minutes from the station, with en-suite triples, quads and a family room for five. For a family on a budget, those rooms are the draw, because the boutique hotels around here take two people per room. It's 3.6 on Google from about 800 reviews.

Set expectations low on the rooms. Reviewers describe them as small and dated, say there's no lift, and are hardest on the basement rooms. On Tuesday 10 November the doubles had sold out on the hotel's own site, and a Triple was £89.30 non-refundable (£94.05 with free cancellation); the Family room was £131. Saturday 14 November needed a two-night stay.

Holland Park. West of Notting Hill Gate, Holland Park Avenue runs past some of London's grandest villas to Holland Park itself, with its semi-wild woodland, the Kyoto Garden and free-roaming peacocks. Holland Park station is on the Central line. It's quieter and greener than Notting Hill proper, with Portobello Road 13 to 22 minutes' walk away, and the two places here I'd send you to are both at the budget end.

Ravna Gora is an independent hotel in a big Victorian-style house on Holland Park Avenue, two minutes from Holland Park station, with a bar, a sitting room, a buffet breakfast room and rooms from shared-bathroom singles up to en-suite quads. It's 4.1 on Google from about 550 reviews.

The building shows its age: reviewers mention soft old mattresses, and single-glazed windows onto a busy main road. The cheapest rooms share bathrooms. On Tuesday 10 November the only room for two left on its own site was a Basic Triple with a shared bathroom at £99, and a Saturday on its own couldn't be booked at all.

Safestay London Kensington Holland Park (formerly YHA London Holland Park, which has left the YHA network) is a hostel in the east wing of a Jacobean mansion begun in 1605 as Cope Castle, later Holland House, inside the park itself. There are private doubles and family rooms as well as dorms, a café, a courtyard garden and a 24-hour reception. For the price of a pub lunch you wake up inside Holland Park, about ten minutes' walk through the park from the station.

Its 3.5 on Google from about 2,400 reviews is fair warning. Recent reviewers complain that rooms overheat with no fans, and one reported bed bugs, so it's for travellers to whom price matters more than anything. A Double Room Ensuite was about £40 for Tuesday 10 November on the hostel's own booking page, with breakfast about £8 more.

Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park. North of the antiques stretch, Portobello Road turns into the food, vintage-clothes and bric-a-brac end of the market, under the Westway flyover, with Golborne Road beyond. It's scruffier and livelier, and Friday is Golborne Road's busiest day. Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park stations are on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, which are slower into the West End: Google puts Ladbroke Grove about 26 minutes from Oxford Circus by Tube, against 9 from Notting Hill Gate.

The Knight of Notting Hill is a pub with king rooms upstairs, next to Ladbroke Grove station, serving Indian and British food with cocktails and live music. The rooms have air conditioning and en-suite bathrooms. It's for night owls: you're a minute from the station and 11 from Westbourne Grove. The pub is 4.4 on Google from about 360 reviews.

Almost all of those reviews are about the pub, not the rooms, and the live music is right below you. Breakfast isn't included. The King Room was £250 on a flexible rate for Tuesday 10 November on its own site, and exactly the same on the Saturday.

Mason & Fifth, Westbourne Park is a 332-studio aparthotel in the former London taxi drivers' headquarters, with an indoor pool, sauna, steam room and 24-hour gym, a tenth-floor lounge, a canal-side restaurant and kitchens in most studios. It's the pick for a longer stay or anyone who wants a pool, and it's 4.6 on Google from about 390 reviews.

It's on the edge of the area: six minutes to Westbourne Park station, 21 to Portobello Road at Westbourne Grove and nearly half an hour to Notting Hill Gate, and the studios are compact (one reviewer couldn't walk round the bed). The pool is adults-only outside family swim times. An Out & About studio was £214.17 non-refundable without breakfast for Tuesday 10 November on its own site, or £237.97 flexible with breakfast.