Contemporary rooms with free Wi-Fi in a polished hotel offering a refined restaurant with a patio. Occupying an elegant redbrick building off storied Fleet Street, this upscale hotel is a 5-minute walk from City Thameslink train station and 11 minutes' walk from St. Paul's Cathedral. The bright contemporary rooms have flat-screen TVs, iPod docks and free Wi-Fi, as well as tea and coffeemaking facilities, and minibars. Upgraded rooms add sitting areas and Nespresso machines, while suites include separate living areas with dining tables and entertainment systems. Some suites have balconies with city views. There's a chic, modern European restaurant with a patio, as well as a 24-hour fitness centre.
1-2, Serjeant's Inn, Temple, London EC4Y 1AG, United Kingdom Get directions
"A 184-room conversion, previously barristers' chambers, in Serjeants' Inn, a postwar building across from the Royal Courts of Justice on Fleet Street—well situated for exploring Dr. Johnson's and Dickens's London."