Hazlitt's, Claridge's and Town Hall Hotel. Hazlitt's has no restaurant and its two bars are for residents only, so the house stays calm in the middle of Soho. Claridge's has the quietest streets of our ten: on the official night-time road-noise map, nothing within 50 metres of it reaches 50 dB. Town Hall Hotel is on Patriot Square in residential Bethnal Green, and from Junior Suite up most rooms have a kitchen, so a quiet night in is easy.
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Quiet in London comes down to two things: the street outside and what happens downstairs after dark. Soho is the loud end, and noise complaints to Westminster council peak at 11pm on Fridays and Saturdays; at King's Cross, Euston Road carries traffic around the clock. The calm quarters are Pimlico's stucco squares, Marylebone once the shops shut, and the City from Friday evening to Monday morning.
Our three answer it in different ways. Hazlitt's keeps you in the West End, with Soho's restaurants two minutes from the door and a house with no public bar to come back to. Claridge's is the measured answer: on the official night-time road-noise map its streets are the quietest of our ten, under 50 dB, though its bars are busy into the evening. Town Hall Hotel trades the walk to the sights for residential Bethnal Green and apartment-sized rooms, and the Central line still reaches Tottenham Court Road in 12 minutes. At all three, the side of the building your room faces is the thing to ask the hotel about.
Hazlitt's is 30 rooms in a Georgian terrace of 1718, and nothing in the house is open to the public. There is no restaurant, and the honesty bar in the Library and the gin bar in the Wardrobe serve residents only, which keeps them quiet. Once they close, all that is still running is the 24-hour room-service menu. Guests single out how quiet the rooms are for the middle of Soho.
Outside, it is still Soho. Rooms facing Frith Street hear the street through the double glazing on Friday and Saturday nights, and the back of the house is the calm side. Then you have Quo Vadis, Barrafina and Koya two minutes from the door and a quiet house to come home to.
The room to book
Superior Double
23 m²£404 a night
Averaging 23 square metres with a king or large king bed, it is the first category roomy enough for a quiet evening in with the room-service menu.
Town Hall Hotel fills a Grade II listed Edwardian town hall on Patriot Square, in residential Bethnal Green, and noise is not a recurring complaint among its guests. There are 98 rooms and suites, and evenings in the building are built around dinner: Da Terra, with two Michelin stars, serves Wednesday to Saturday with a last sitting at 20:00, and Restaurant Elis serves dinner from 18:00 to 21:00.
From Junior Suite upward most rooms have a kitchen, so a night in can be supper at your own table, and the 14 metre heated pool in the basement is open to guests every day. The west front of the building looks onto Cambridge Heath Road, a bus route, which reaches 68 dB at night on the official road-noise map. On the Patriot Square side, to the east, the median is under 49 dB, so those rooms are the calmer ones.
The room to book
One Bedroom Suite
33.7 to 49.3 m²
The bedroom is separate from the kitchen and dining area, so one of you can cook or read late while the other sleeps.
Claridge's has stood on the corner of Brook Street and Davies Street since 1856, and it is on this list for its streets, not its scene. On Defra's 2022 noise map, night-time road noise never reaches 50 dB within 50 metres of the hotel: the quietest reading of our ten London hotels after Hazlitt's, and a fraction of a decibel behind it. The house itself is not hushed. Claridge's Bar, The Fumoir and The Painter's Room are busy into the evening, and afternoon tea fills the Foyer by day.
Inside, the side matters more than the street. The Superior Room at 35 square metres and the Mayfair Room at 40 face the courtyard, which guests report as the side that catches noise. The Mayfair Balcony Room is the first category whose outlooks are all streets: Brook Street, Davies Street or Brook's Mews.
The room to book
Mayfair Balcony Room
45 m²
45 square metres and the first category whose outlooks are all streets, Brook Street, Davies Street or Brook's Mews, away from the courtyard that guests report as the noisier side.
The official road-noise map, at the loudest point within 50 metres of each of our ten hotels in London, at night. For sleep, the World Health Organization advises keeping night-time road noise below 45 dB.
Source: Defra, Strategic Noise Mapping 2022 (Round 4), road noise Lnight, England. The figure is the loudest modelled night-time road noise (Lnight) within 50 metres of the hotel, usually its street front; a courtyard or the back of the house is quieter.
Artist Residence London has ten bedrooms on a residential street in Pimlico, and the hotel says they are double-glazed and soundproofed from the public rooms. For the quietest Saturday, book a room on the second or third floor.
The Zetter Marylebone is 24 rooms on the quiet stretch of Seymour Street, a minute from Oxford Street, and its one public room, the Parlour, closes at half past ten. Ask for a room high in the house.
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Pimlico, Marylebone and, at weekends, the City. Pimlico is cream stucco terraces and garden squares, and Artist Residence London is there; Marylebone's side streets empty when the shops close, and The Zetter Marylebone is on one of them; and from Friday evening to Monday morning the City is left to its 8,600 residents. Bethnal Green, further east, is residential too, and that is where Town Hall Hotel stands. For the West End on foot, Hazlitt's is the calm house on a lively Soho street. On the official night-time road-noise map, the quietest streets around our ten are Hazlitt's in Soho and Claridge's in Mayfair, both under 50 dB.
Is Claridge's quiet at night?
Outside, yes: on Defra's 2022 night-time road-noise map, nothing within 50 metres of Claridge's reaches 50 dB, the quietest streets of our ten London hotels after Hazlitt's. Inside, the bars are busy into the evening, and guests report the courtyard as the noisier side. Book a Mayfair Balcony Room, the first category facing only Brook Street, Davies Street or Brook's Mews.
Is Soho noisy at night?
At weekends, yes. Westminster council's figures put the borough's densest cluster of licensed premises at the south end of Dean, Frith and Greek Streets, and noise complaints to the council peak at 11pm on Fridays and Saturdays, so rooms facing the street hear it. Hazlitt's is at the Soho Square end of Frith Street, with no restaurant and bars for residents only; ask for a room at the back of the house. Leicester Square itself is the address to skip: Whitcombe Street, just off it, has 26 late-night refreshment licences running past 3am, the most in the borough.
Does Hazlitt's have a restaurant?
No, and nothing in the house is open to the public. Breakfast comes to your room, usually between seven and ten, priced by the dish, and a short 24-hour room-service menu covers the rest, from soup to a chicken and asparagus pie. The Library honesty bar and the gin bar in the Wardrobe are for residents only. For dinner, Quo Vadis, Barrafina, Koya and Hoppers are each two minutes' walk away, and Bocca di Lupo six.
Is Bethnal Green a good area to stay in London?
For quiet nights and a second visit, yes. It is residential and plainer than Shoreditch, where London goes out, and Bethnal Green station is five minutes' walk from Town Hall Hotel. From there the Central line reaches Tottenham Court Road in 12 minutes and runs all night on Fridays and Saturdays, and Cambridge Heath, on the Overground into Liverpool Street, is about four minutes from the door. On foot, Young V&A is four minutes away, Victoria Park ten minutes north east and Columbia Road about fifteen.
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