Where to Stay in Soho, London: The 21 Best Hotels (2026)

The Soho core: Dean, Frith and Greek Streets. This is the Soho of the postcards and the late licences, the grid of Georgian streets between Wardour Street and Charing Cross Road. It's where you want to be for dinner, a jazz club and the walk home, and it's the loudest part of the district from Thursday to Saturday, so here more than anywhere the room matters as much as the hotel. The Soho Hotel is the one I'd book to be in the middle of it without hearing it. Firmdale opened it in 2004 in Richmond Mews, a quiet mews between Dean Street and Wardour Street, and its 96 Kit Kemp rooms are large for Soho: the entry Luxury Room is 446 square feet (about 41 square metres). There are two screening rooms, a gym, a guests-only drawing room and library, and the Refuel bar and restaurant. Tottenham Court Road is three minutes' walk, Piccadilly Circus nine and Oxford Circus eleven.

The catch is the bill: £588 room only on the advance-purchase rate for Tuesday 10 November, £660 flexible, with breakfast on top. Refuel has live music on Wednesdays, so if you're a light sleeper that's the night to ask for a room well above the bar. For families it's one of the few Soho hotels that can do it properly, with interconnecting Deluxe rooms and junior suites and two- and three-bedroom suites. One Google reviewer's summary: the "location is outstanding and accessible to public transportation."

Hazlitt's is a Georgian terrace on Frith Street run as a small hotel by the people behind The Rookery: antique furniture, four-poster beds in the bigger rooms, a guests-only honesty bar and gin bar, and no restaurant. That last point is the reason to book it in Soho, because nobody is drinking downstairs at 1am. Tottenham Court Road is four minutes away, Piccadilly Circus eight and Oxford Circus eleven, and Soho Square is at the top of the street. Every room has air conditioning, which is not a given in an old Soho house.

It's a house, not a hotel machine. A Club Double (about 19 square metres) was £503 room only on Booking.com for 10 November, non-refundable, or £559 with free cancellation, and breakfast is £28 on top. A recent Google reviewer found no lift (elevator) to the upper floors and floors and stairs that are not level, so if stairs are hard for you, ask the hotel which rooms suit before you book. For a couple who want Soho at the door and quiet behind it, it's my townhouse pick; one Google reviewer said it "feels like you are staying in a fancy Victorian townhome, not a hotel."

Dean Street Townhouse is Soho House's 39-bedroom hotel in a Georgian townhouse on Dean Street, above and beside its all-day British restaurant, with original fireplaces and vintage marble in the rooms. You don't need to be a member to book. Chinatown is three minutes' walk, Tottenham Court Road four, Piccadilly Circus seven and Oxford Circus eleven. The restaurant is the draw for a lot of people staying here: breakfast, afternoon tea from Monday to Saturday and a Sunday roast without leaving the building.

The room names tell you the trade-off. The cheapest public rate on 10 November was £485 for a Cosy of 17 square metres, room only and non-refundable, and the Broom Cupboard (15 square metres, spiral staircase) was £520. The hotel says which way each room faces, and that's useful here: the Cosy rooms face inwards and the Cosy Plus sit at the back, while the Classic, Big and Large rooms look onto Dean Street, which is busy until late. Every room sleeps two, so it's no use for a family. For a couple on a food weekend, book a Cosy Plus and eat downstairs.

Kettner's (the site has dropped the old "Townhouse" name) is Soho House's other hotel in the core: 33 bedrooms above the French bistro on Romilly Street that has been Kettner's since 1867. It sits right on the theatre side of Soho: the Shaftesbury Avenue theatres are a minute away, Chinatown three minutes, Leicester Square station four and Piccadilly Circus six. Oxford Circus is 14 minutes, joint longest of the core hotels with the Z Hotel Soho. The rooms run from a 15-square-metre Cosy to an 80-square-metre Jacobean Suite with its own door on Greek Street.

Like Dean Street, the entry rooms are small for the money: a Cosy was £525 on the advance rate for 10 November, room only, and every room sleeps two. The ground floor is a busy bistro and bar, so this is a hotel for people who'll be out rather than people who want an early night. My tip is the Cosy Terrace (17 square metres, £580 that night), which has its own courtyard terrace; the Medium Corner rooms overlook Greek and Romilly Streets, so skip those if you sleep lightly. One Google reviewer, eating rather than staying, called it a "beautiful and atmospheric dining room."

The Resident Soho is the quiet one in the core. Its 78 rooms sit at the quiet end of Carlisle Street, just off Soho Square, with a bronze of the moon goddess Selene by Hew Locke over the door, and there's no bar or restaurant in the building to keep you up. Every room has a mini-kitchen, and you can have the fridge stocked before you arrive. Tottenham Court Road is two minutes on foot and Oxford Circus eight, which makes it the best-placed hotel in the core for Oxford Street shopping; Piccadilly Circus is ten. It holds 4.7 on Google from nearly 1,300 reviews.

The rooms start small (the Snug is 14 square metres, the Double 16) and the price depends heavily on the night. On Tuesday 10 November only the 28-square-metre Premium King (from £651) and the Carlisle Suite were left; a week earlier the smaller rooms were on sale, the Snug at £449 and the Double at £455. The Snug's 135-centimetre double is reached from one side only, so couples should book the Double. The Premium King sleeps up to four with a pull-out bed, which makes it one of the few family options in this part of Soho. A Google reviewer described their room as "quiet, comfortable and spotless."

Mimi's Hotel Soho is the budget boutique of the core: small, well-finished rooms on Frith Street with sound insulation in the walls and doors, air conditioning, and Henson's bar on the ground floor doing coffee and breakfast in the morning and cocktails at night. It's a few doors from Hazlitt's on Frith Street, so the location is the same at well under half the price: Tottenham Court Road four minutes, Piccadilly Circus eight, Oxford Circus eleven. On 10 November the cheapest double was £210, room only, on a flexible rate.

That £210 buys a Cosy No Window of about 8.5 square metres, and the hotel says plainly that the Mini, Cosy and Lux rooms marked "No Window" have no external window. I'd pay the £28 more for a Cosy with one (£238). The rooms are genuinely tiny, one Google reviewer was charged about £10 to leave luggage after check-out, and the Google score (4.0) is dragged down by reviewers who expected more space. One reviewer put it fairly: "My room, admittedly, was very small but perfectly fine for a few nights."

The Z Hotel Soho is on Moor Street, the short link between Old Compton Street and Cambridge Circus, and it's the cheapest hotel room with its own bathroom in the core. A Z Double of 9 to 10 square metres with a window is published from £90 a night, though Booking.com had it at about £170 for Tuesday 10 November, so treat £90 as a quiet-night price. The Shaftesbury Avenue theatres are a minute away, Leicester Square station three, Piccadilly Circus eight and Oxford Circus 14. You book it for the postcode, not the room.

Space is what goes: a big suitcase won't open flat on the floor, and the cheaper Inside Double (from £70) is windowless. Nobody can add a third bed, so it's for couples and solo travellers. Several recent Google reviewers found the lift out of service, which means carrying bags up the stairs to the upper floors, so ask for a low floor. One Google reviewer summed it up: "The location is everything. Smack dab in the middle of all the action."

Carnaby and the Oxford Street side. North-west Soho, between Wardour Street, Oxford Street and Regent Street, is Carnaby Street, Liberty and the lanes behind them. It's busy by day with shoppers and noticeably calmer than the core at night, and it's the part of Soho to choose if Oxford Street is a reason for the trip: every hotel in this group is within eight minutes of Oxford Circus. Broadwick Soho is the design hotel here, on Broadwick Street, with rooms from about 18 square metres up to an 89-square-metre penthouse, Beefbar at Dear Jackie on the ground floor and Flute, a rooftop bar that draws plenty of non-residents. Tottenham Court Road is five minutes, Piccadilly Circus seven, Oxford Circus eight.

It's priced like Firmdale without Firmdale's room sizes. The lowest price on the hotel's own calendar for 10 November was about £600 (£520 the week before, £704 the week after), and the entry Standard is about 18 square metres with a queen bed. The look is theatrical by design, and not for everyone: one Google reviewer found it "too kitschy and overdone." Standard rooms face either the courtyard or out across the West End, so ask for the courtyard side if you want the quieter outlook. There's a Family Suite (about 64 square metres, a king and a queen). Even that reviewer conceded that "the core design concept of the hotel is well executed and feels authentic."

Courthouse Hotel London is the old Great Marlborough Street Magistrates' Court, a Grade II-listed building opposite Liberty and a block from Carnaby Street, turned into a 116-room hotel with a spa and gym, a private cinema, a roof terrace and two restaurants. It's the closest hotel here to Oxford Circus, three minutes' walk, with Tottenham Court Road six and Piccadilly Circus eight. The Classic rooms are 25 square metres, big for Soho.

It's also the best-value full-service hotel on the Oxford Street side if you book direct: £344 on 10 November for a Classic Double with the English breakfast included, non-refundable, or £404 flexible with breakfast. The Google score (3.8) is the lowest of the hotels I'd still recommend: one reviewer who paid over £600 a night found the room tired and worn, so read it as a good mid-range hotel, not a five-star. It's the one I'd pick for a shopping weekend. One Google reviewer: "Every person who works here is so polite and happy to help, but they still keep it perfectly relaxed."

hub by Premier Inn London Soho is Premier Inn's compact, app-controlled format on Hopkins Street, a side street by Berwick Street. It's the reliable budget choice: Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus are both seven minutes' walk, Tottenham Court Road six, and Berwick Street's market and Carnaby Street are on the doorstep. Check-in is self-service, the rooms are small but well planned, and it scores 4.4 on Google from about 800 reviews.

On Tuesday 10 November the standard hub room had already sold out; the accessible room (level-access shower, wide doors) was £215 non-refundable and the Bigger room (14 square metres, a king you can get out of on both sides) £228. The Bigger room is the one to book for two. Breakfast is a paid buffet and there's no car park. One Google reviewer's verdict: "Rooms are comfortable (great air-con!), clean, and location is perfect for theatre trips."

The Z Hotel Tottenham Court Road is on Poland Street in north Soho, and the name undersells it: Tottenham Court Road is five minutes' walk and Oxford Circus six, so it works for either end of Oxford Street. Piccadilly Circus is seven minutes. It's the same formula as the Z Hotel Soho: 9-square-metre doubles, a 24-hour café-bar, air conditioning, and complimentary cheese and wine for members. On 10 November the Z Double with a window was £189 prepaid, £233 flexible.

The Z Inside Double (£179) has no window and no curtains; the rooms with windows, on the other hand, have no curtains either, according to one Google reviewer, who found the room light from about 4am and would have booked the windowless one. Bring an eye mask. Another reviewer found no wardrobe, and breakfast adds about £14 a head. It's the Z to pick for Oxford Street; one Google reviewer: "I quite like the compact room set-up."

Astor Oxford Street (the former YHA London Oxford Street) is the cheapest bed in Soho: dorm beds from £29 a person and private doubles from £99 a night on its own published rates. It's on Noel Street, four minutes from Tottenham Court Road and five from Oxford Circus, with a guest kitchen, a lounge, a terrace, 24-hour reception and free luggage storage. For a solo traveller or a couple who only need a bed, it's the budget answer in central London.

Every room, private doubles included, shares bathrooms. Dorms are for over-18s, and under-18s (8 to 17) can stay only in a private room with a parent or guardian. Recent Google reviewers flag no air conditioning (fans are provided, which isn't much use in a heatwave), stairs to most rooms, and towels you pay for. Breakfast is extra, too. One Google reviewer: "The bathrooms were near the rooms and clean, good pressure in the showers, and location couldn't be better."

Golden Square and the Regent Street edge. The west side of Soho, between Golden Square and the curve of Regent Street, is the calmest part of the district after dark, with more offices than bars, and Piccadilly Circus one to four minutes away and Oxford Circus seven to ten. West of Regent Street is Mayfair, which has its own page. Hotel Café Royal is the grand hotel of Soho, in the Café Royal building on Regent Street, where the Café Royal opened in 1865; the hotel dates from 2012. There's the Akasha spa with an indoor pool, a Grade II-listed ballroom, and rooms that start at 33 square metres. Piccadilly Circus is about a minute on foot, Oxford Circus ten.

The price moves violently. The lowest price on the hotel's own calendar for Tuesday 10 November was about £942, against £745 the week before and about £640 on the Sunday and Monday after, so it's worth trying the nights either side. For families it has something rare in Soho: a two-bedroom family room of about 80 square metres for four adults and a child. The rooms facing Regent Street are sold as the premium outlook; the entry Superior rooms have city views. One Google reviewer found it "quiet even though it's in the middle of Piccadilly and Regent St."

Karma Sanctum Soho (you'll also see it listed as Sanctum Soho, the name its booking engine still uses) is a 30-room music-industry hotel in two Georgian townhouses on Warwick Street, just behind Regent Street. It calls itself London's original rock'n'roll hotel, and it has the kit to prove it: a fifth-floor rooftop bar with a hot tub for residents and members, a basement members' bar, and the Wild Heart Japanese restaurant, 20% off if you book direct. Piccadilly Circus is four minutes, Oxford Circus seven.

It's the cheapest characterful hotel in Soho: a Compact Room with a king bed was £210 on the advance rate for 10 November, £247 flexible. It's also built for late nights (the hotel's own words are a "nod to late night revelry"), so don't book it for sleep. Expect a £150 hold on your card at check-in; one Google reviewer complained it took weeks to be released. The hotel doesn't publish room sizes; one Google reviewer found their small, compact double "a good size for a few nights."

37GS Residences is 22 serviced apartments at 37 Golden Square: one-, two- and three-bedroom flats with full kitchens (Gaggenau appliances, dishwasher, washer and dryer), a lift, a 24-hour reception and a luggage room. It's the Soho answer for families and for anyone staying a week. Piccadilly Circus is three minutes on foot and Oxford Circus seven, and Golden Square's garden is across the road.

Prices are published from £313 a night for a one-bedroom of about 50 square metres and from £607 for a two-bedroom, which is expensive for a night and good value for four people for a week. It's not a hotel: there's no restaurant or breakfast, and the residences' booking site says every booking made since May 2026 includes daily maid service and fresh towels. Book a hotel for a two-night trip and this for a longer one. A Google reviewer's short version: "Great location and very clean."

Piccadilly Circus and Shaftesbury Avenue. Soho's southern edge is where it meets the West End's theatres, Chinatown and Piccadilly Circus itself: the best-connected corner of the district and the most crowded, day and night. The hotels facing Leicester Square itself, and everything east of Charing Cross Road, are covered with Covent Garden; W London on the square's north-west corner and the Thistle on Coventry Street are here. If I had one big night in Soho to pay for, it would be at Ham Yard Hotel. It's the Firmdale hotel three minutes from Piccadilly Circus (Oxford Circus is eleven), set back from Great Windmill Street around a planted yard of its own, with a lot packed in: 91 bedrooms, a 190-seat theatre, a spa, a roof garden and a bowling alley from the 1950s. It's the one I'd pick for a birthday or an anniversary.

For 10 November the cheapest Superior (31 square metres) was £624 on the non-refundable advance rate and £690 flexible, room only. That buys a bigger standard room than most of Soho offers, done in Kit Kemp's bold colours and fabrics. The yard isn't a guarantee of silence: one Google reviewer found the courtyard-facing side noisy at night, so it's worth asking at booking which rooms are calmest that week. A regular's verdict on Google: "From the moment you arrive and the door is opened, you are welcomed home."

Montcalm Piccadilly Townhouse is a 67-room boutique hotel on Shaftesbury Avenue, in the middle of the theatres: Chinatown is a minute away, the Shaftesbury Avenue theatres two minutes, Leicester Square station and Piccadilly Circus four. Oxford Circus is 13. There's a gym, and the rooms page lists breakfast as included, though one Google reviewer's rate didn't have it, so check before you pay. On 10 November the Compact Double (about 11 square metres) was £301 and the Double (15 square metres) £312.

Pay the £11 for the Double: an 11-square-metre room is a bed and a bathroom. Shaftesbury Avenue is a main road with theatre crowds every night and the hotel doesn't say which rooms face it, so ask for the back. The Quad Room (28 square metres) sleeps four, one of the few Soho options for a family on a mid-range budget. A Google reviewer who came for a concert: "The room was small but its what we expected and was perfectly fine."

Zedwell Piccadilly Circus is a sleep hotel on Great Windmill Street, about a minute from Piccadilly Circus (Oxford Circus is 12). Every room is a windowless, soundproofed "cocoon" with filtered air and no TV, which is exactly why it works in the noisiest corner of Soho. A Cocoon 2 (10 square metres, double bed) was £164 on a semi-flexible rate for 10 November. There's a gym and a café, and bigger cocoons for three to eight people make it a rare budget option for a family or a group of friends.

It all comes down to windows. There's no daylight in any room, no TV, and one Google reviewer found the rooms weren't cleaned during the stay (fresh towels are on request at the desk) and check-in was on a self-service tablet. It scores 4.0 on Google from more than 10,800 reviews. For a theatre night and a cheap, dark, quiet sleep it's hard to beat; one Google reviewer: "It was quiet and definitely enough room for our party of 3 (three person room)."

W London is a 192-room W hotel on the corner of Wardour Street and Leicester Square, with the AWAY spa, a gym, three restaurants and two bars, including the W Lounge. Chinatown is two minutes, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square stations three and four, Oxford Circus 14. It's the big-brand party hotel of the area, and pets are welcome (one per room, up to 40 lb, £50 a stay).

The rate on 10 November was £457 for a mid-floor Superior king, prepaid and non-refundable, or £572 flexible, with breakfast extra. The trade-off is the square outside. One Google reviewer explained why they wouldn't return: "The problem is that being in the middle of the action means you hear the action." If you book it, ask for a room away from the Leicester Square side. There's no parking.

Thistle London Piccadilly is an 82-room hotel on Coventry Street, the pedestrian stretch between Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square: Piccadilly Circus is three minutes and Leicester Square station four, but Oxford Circus is 15, the longest walk to Oxford Street of any hotel here. It's a straightforward, mid-range hotel with 19-square-metre doubles, a small fitness room and a Junior Suite that sleeps three.

At £372 for a Standard Double on 10 November (prepay, room only; £406 with breakfast, and £389 the following Tuesday) it's the most expensive of the mid-range hotels for what you get. Reviews split on noise: one Google reviewer found the room "surprisingly quiet," another found it noisy from the corridor and the street. Pay the extra £43 for a 24-square-metre Deluxe King if you're staying more than a night, and ask for a high floor.

The Dilly is just across Piccadilly from Soho, a minute from Piccadilly Circus; strictly it's in St James's, but it's the grand old hotel on Piccadilly itself. It opened in 1908 as the Piccadilly Hotel, was Le Méridien from 1986, and has been The Dilly since 2021. It has a rare thing in the West End, a hotel swimming pool (indoor, 11.5 by 12.75 metres, with a steam room), plus a gym with squash courts, both free for guests, and a cocktail bar downstairs. Oxford Circus is 12 minutes.

It's pricey for a hotel mid-refurbishment. A Standard double was £487 room only on the advance rate for 10 November, £541 flexible, and the hotel says phase one of a bedroom refurbishment is under way with no end date, so ask for a room that has been done; recent Google reviews are mostly warm about the staff and the location. Pets are welcome if you tell the hotel in advance. One Google reviewer on the bar: "The piano bar downstairs is great. Dark, quiet and very romantic."