Travellers planning a trip to London may want to steer clear of Soho if they happen to be on a budget. London’s West End neighbourhood has just earned the distinction of being the city’s most expensive district in which to stay overnight. The rankings were compiled from the latest survey from CheapRooms.co.uk, using cost of lodging to compare London’s various neighbourhoods.
20 London districts
In coming up with the rankings, the survey investigated 20 districts in London. For each district it then established the average price a visiting guest can expect to pay for the cheapest available double room during the month of October 2014. In its compilations, the survey included only those hotels that had at least a three-star rating and a positive average client rating.
Soho tops the rankings
The entertainment district of Soho, which is bounded by Oxford Street, Regent Street, Charing Cross Road, and Shaftesbury Avenue, topped the rankings. Guests who stay in Soho this October can anticipate an average nightly rate of GBP 219. And that’s for the cheapest available double room. Rounding out the Top 3 and trailing Soho only marginally are Knightsbridge and Mayfair. Average overnight rates of GBP 216 and GBP 214, respectively, pushed these districts into the number two and three slots on the survey.
The table compares 20 neighbourhoods in London based on their lodging cost. All rates were established over the period of September 8–12, 2014 via a hotel comparison engine:
- Soho £219
- Knightsbridge £216
- Mayfair £214
- Chelsea £194
- Belgravia £172
- The City £154
- Westminster £151
- Notting Hill £150
- Southbank/Waterloo £147
- Marleybone £145
- Southwark/London Bridge £132
- Pimlico £122
- Fulham £122
- Bloomsbury £119
- Hammersmith £118
- Kensington £114
- Docklands £106
- Kings Cross £106
- Paddington £101
- Heathrow Airport £59
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