Quiet room in London

What museums? London is a huge city full of museums!

Which museums? For context the Victoria and Albert Museum is 10 miles from the Greenwich museums.

It would help to know what your budget is. £200/night? £300? Less?

Regardless, I would suggest staying the Bloomsbury area, which is a nice location very near the British Museum that has a very residential feel to it. It would definitely be quieter than some of the other areas. I stayed on Gower Street in Bloomsbury many years ago and loved that location.

If you want quiet, then the Premier Inns are known for that. They are dotted all over London, so pick one closest to your museum of choice. We like the PI St Pancras- across the street from the British Library, and a short bus ride to the Br Museum

London has countless museums.

Premier Inns are throughout London.

You should also research the Residence Inn chain.

In November 2024 found my 5th floor room at the Club Quarters at Lincoln Inn Fields to be quiet.

Both the Hunterian Museum and the Sir John Soanes Museum were close by.

FYI throughly enjoyed the cafe at the Hunterian Museum. https://hunterianmuseum.org/

Holborn tube station 5 minute walk from the Club Quarters.

Traditional pub called the Seven Stars was a pleasant respite. Good food, ambience and pub cat.

https://www.thesevenstars1602.co.uk/

You should also research the Residence Inn chain.

I think Claudia meant Resident Hotels. Residence Inn is part of Marriott and the ones in London are not very good.

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Well, having started a couple of the Residence Inns by Marriott in London, I would disagree with Frank’s generic assertion that they’re not very good but I would say also that I have stayed at the resident inn Kensington and it was incredibly quiet so it would certainly be an option. I also thought rhe Residence Inn Marriott Kensington was also very quiet.

Again, not Resident Inn...Just Resident Hotels

I guess Carol and I have had different experiences. I stayed at the Residence Inn Kensington (Marriott) and it was so bad I left after couple of days. And I tried three different rooms.

My experience included broken A/C during a July heat wave, broken elevators, limited seating at breakfast, dirty linens, broken locks, lots of noise from the hallway, and peeling paint on the walls.

If you're looking for quiet, I wouldn't choose the Resident Soho. It's known to be "lively." I, too, like quiet, and I was told it wasn't a good choice for that.

Frank II I’m curious. Did you stay at multiple Resident Inn locations in London and found many undesirable? Often times these larger chains are owned run by different groups so one location may be very different from another.

I have not but have spoken to people who have stayed at different ones.

Marriott has lowered standards on their mid-level builds to get hotels up as cheap as possible. But even there they are allowing short cuts on the full service hotels. (I used to be Ambassador but allowed that to slide due to poor experiences.) I'm not going to risk it when there are so many other hotels to choose from.

Everybody has good stays and everyone has bad stays at the same hotel. But if I've had bad stays at a few branches of the same chain, regardless of where they are, I'm staying away.

I will say that the RI at JFK is pretty good. However, it's sister Marriott, a full service Marriott, across the parking lot has a lot of problems. And they admit it.

Interesting. Thank you.