The catch at Hazlitt's

Hazlitt's is a terrace of narrow Georgian houses, and the way up is the original staircase. The hotel's own site, its rooms page and the group FAQ say nothing about lifts at all, and the top suite is described as arranged over two floors of its own. Guests report steep stairs, floors that slope and landings that have settled over three centuries, and the same guests tend to count that as the charm.

It is charm with a cost. There is no published accessible room, no lift you can rely on, and no way to choose a floor when you book. If you can manage a couple of flights with luggage, none of this matters. If you cannot, nothing else on this page does either.

There is no restaurant, no spa and no gym; the group FAQ states that none of its three hotels has a restaurant. Every rate for 9 to 11 February 2027 was sold as Room Only, flexible and prepaid alike. Breakfast comes to the room, generally between seven and ten, and is priced per item on the 2026 menu: the continental is 14.95 pounds, a bacon sandwich 13.95, coffee 4.50, tea 4.10 and juice 2.95. Two continentals and two coffees are 38.90 pounds a morning on top of the room.

The bars are the other side of the same coin. The Library honesty bar and the gin bar in the Wardrobe are for hotel guests only, which keeps them quiet and means there is nothing in the building once the bars close except your own room and a 24-hour menu of nine dishes, from soup at 8.50 pounds to charcuterie at 21.50. The hotel does not publish the bar hours.

Frith Street has Ronnie Scott's at number 47 and Bar Italia at number 22, and the rooms on that side hear it through the double glazing on a Friday and Saturday night. Guests rate the location well above sleep quality, a gap that is mostly this street. The hotel does not publish which rooms face it.

The second limit is in the beds. Every double category the hotel sells comes with a double, king or large king, and every one is capped at two adults. There is no twin room anywhere in the hotel. Children are narrower still. For 9 to 11 February 2027 only the Deluxe Double was sold to a party with a child, and nothing at all to a party with two. The Junior Suite's description mentions two small children on its sofa bed, but the hotel does not sell that occupancy. Friends sharing, or a family of four, are not what the house was built for.

Sizes here are averages, and the prices do not track them. For 9 to 11 February 2027 the 33 square metre Deluxe Double was 503.10 pounds a night prepaid and the 24 square metre Luxury Double was 549, so the smaller room cost 46 pounds more. The Luxury Double was also the only category with no prepaid saving at all, 549 pounds whether you paid in advance or kept the right to cancel; every other room took roughly ten percent off for paying up front. For 20 to 22 April the pattern held, the Deluxe at 512.10 and the Luxury still at 549.

That is a hotel pricing what is in the room, a particular bed, a particular bath, over how much of it there is, and it explains why value is what guests rate lowest while location is what they rate highest. You are paying for character, and the carpet guests report as worn in places is part of it.

The hotel lists no parking and the group FAQ confirms that all three of its houses sit inside the Congestion Charge zone. Transport for London charges 18 pounds a day to drive in, or 21 pounds if you pay by midnight on the third day after travelling, between 7:00 and 18:00 on weekdays and 12:00 to 18:00 at weekends and bank holidays; if the car does not meet the ULEZ standard there is a further 12.50 pounds a day, every day of the year but Christmas. The hotel's own contact page sends you to Tottenham Court Road and Leicester Square stations instead. The hotel will arrange airport transfers to Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted and City on request, priced by the hotel directly.