Hotel in Detail:
The Thistle Piccadilly is a small and friendly hotel sporting its original Victorian facade and suited to both both business and pleasure travellers. The curved facade is highlighted by an iLight architectural lighting system. The hotel has a traditional and classic style. The lobby is a bright, modern space, graced with soft lighting and furniture.All bedrooms benefit from luxurious en-suite facilities with rainforest showers, specialist mood lighting, smart LCD TVs and tea and coffee making facilities (including Nespresso coffee machine). Each of the rooms are air-conditioned and include amenities such as direct dial telephones, complimentary mini-bar, wakeup call system, desk, safe, complimentary high speed wireless internet access, ironing facilities, radio, desk, hairdryer, trouser presses. Some rooms also have a view over Leicester Square.
The hotel also offers what it calls a call and collect room service where you can order by phone and then pickup your request.
Dining Options:
The Thistle Piccadilly has an Eat&Go restaurant where breakfast is served daily, snacks and drinks are served throughout the day. Breakfast includes cereals, croissants, tea, coffee, fresh fruit, yoghurt, continental and English buffet options.A business centre is available for guests needing to work. The front desk is open 24/7, has safety deposit box facilities and the hotel offers luggage storage facilities. In the hotel lobby is a workstation PC with free WiFi access. WiFi can be picked up throughout the hotel.
Non-smoking throughout.
Guests benefit from the hotels own onsite gym with the latest high tech equipment.
Hotel Vicinity:
Nearest: Tube Station: Piccadilly Circus 0.1 miles (0.2 km), Railway Station: London Charing Cross 0.4 miles (0.6 km), DLR Station: Tower Gateway 2.5 miles (4 km), Motorway: M1 Junction 1 6 miles (9.7 km). There are 5 tube (underground) stations within half a mile (0.8 km).Thistle Piccadilly is as central as it gets. Officially the centre of London is Charing Cross but in practical terms the true centre is Piccadilly Circus which is just 200 yards from the hotel. The best of London's nightlife is on your doorstep with the likes of Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square within 400 yards. Piccadilly Circus is perhaps best known for 2 things, the Eros statue and the neon advertising signs, but there's way more. Its also home to the Trocadero centre, Ripley's Believe it or Not museum and Planet Hollywood. If you are looking to be in the centre of everything then this is the place to be. The whole area around the Thistle Piccadilly Hotel is buzzing throughout the day, night and into the early hours with a large number of clubs, bars and restaurants in the immediate vicinity. Immediately north of the hotel is China Town, names after its large Chinese population and Chinese restaurants and stores with Soho and its renowned restaurants adjacent to China Town. For shopping you have the long and winding Regent Street with exclusive shopping areas just off of Regent Street with the likes of Bond Street.
Nearby places of interest are too numerous too mane but a selection of the closest includes the Comedy Store (0.1 miles), Sports Bar Haymarket (0.2 miles), National Gallery (0.2 miles), Ben Uri Art Society and London Jewish Museum of Art (0.3 miles). There are 10 theatres within 250 yards.
Bedroom Numbers: 82
Check-in: 14.00 (2 pm)
Check-out: 12.00 noon
This hotel has averaged a score of 4.15 out of 5 by 4750 past guests
Booking. com (average customer rating 4 out of 5 from 2708 reviews)
>>>Tripadvisor (ranked 446 of 1162 for hotels in London and rated 4.4 out of 5 from 2042 reviews)
Parking:
No parking available.Internet:
WiFi is available in all areas and is free of charge.Pets:
Pets are not allowed.More hotels from this chain
You may be thinking your only preferred choice is still going to be the Thistle chain your closest choices would be:
Thistle London Trafalgar Square: is 167 yards (152 metres) away, has a guest satisfaction score of 81% and rates start from about £203.
Thistle London Holborn: is 0.6 miles (1.0 km) from here, earns a customer rating of 84% and base rates begin at about £169.
Thistle London Bloomsbury Park: 0.8 miles (1.3 km), rated at 76% and with rates from around £136.
Thistle London Marble Arch: 1.1 miles (1.8 km), rated at 82% and with rates from around £209.
Compared to other London hotels: This hotel has been rated 83% by past guests. The London average is 80% and the average for 4 star hotels is 82%. Therefore this hotel is above average for its sector (star rating) and for London as a whole. Thistle Hotels across the chain average 79% so this hotel is one of the better rated Thistle hotels.
Milesfaster ranking: 236th from 853 London hotels, 2nd of 9 Thistle Hotels, and 90th of 341 four star rated hotels.
Another to Consider:
Another hotel that is much like the Thistle Piccadilly Hotel and not too far
(0.1 miles, 0.2 km) would be the 4 star Thistle London Trafalgar Square,
where prices begin from around £180 and which has a 79% guest satisfaction rating. The Thistle London Trafalgar Square also offers: free WiFi.
Looking for lower base rates? Then another option might be the Strand Palace Hotel. 0.5 miles
away (0.8 km), has scored 83%
from former guests and whose lowest rates start at about £134 (theres free WiFi too). Howabout an alternative hotel that has scores higher in guest reviews? Then the 5 Star Haymarket Hotel ticks many of the right boxes. The Haymarket Hotel is only 0.1 miles (0.2 km) away. The Haymarket Hotel has an extremely high guest rating of 98%, one of the best rated London hotels.
Local hotels analysed:
The 50 hotels nearest to this location (Coventry Street, W1 postcode) that we list cover a 0.5 miles (0.9 km) radius. They include 29 five star hotels (average rating 89%), 15 four star hotels (average rating 85%) and 6 three star hotels (average rating 81%). Top 4 star hotel is The Resident Soho at 96%. Of these local hotels the highest rated is Rocco Forte Brown's Hotel (5 star) at 100%.Base Rates: See a breakdown of the average starting (base) rates for the area. Base rates are a rough guide to starting rates as they do not include special offers and deals.
Of the nearest fifty hotels we have base rates for 49 of them. The average starting rates for the surrounding area are around £313 per night. They range from a low of £49 at St Regis London (5 Star, 80%) to a high of £840 at Ritz Hotel London (5 Star, 90%). The breakdown by star rating shows the following averages: Five Star average: £415, Four Star average: £159 and Three Star average: £154.
Summary:
Our in-house ranking based on guest ratings but adjusted for influencing factors ranks Thistle London Piccadilly 32nd of the 50 local hotels and 9th for the 15 four star hotels in the area. For base rates the hotel ranks 13th of 49 (8th (joint) of 14 four star hotels.). Taking into consideration both rates and guest ratings we rank this hotel 28th of 48 of the local hotels in terms of value for money (Z Hotel Piccadilly was top).
History: Was the Every Hotel Piccadilly till 2019 when it switched back to its old name of Thistle Piccadilly.
was the Thistle Piccadilly till February 2015. Formerly The Hospitality Inn Piccadilly (1996).
Was called the Mapleton Hotel in the 1950s when the hotel was the location for the original Ronnie Scotts jazz club.