City Hotel
Quick Facts
12 - 20 Osborn Street, City, London E1 6TE UK
Aldgate EastRating:
Pros & Cons: affordable - value for money - unspectacular - convenient for City and Brick Lane
Surrounds: Good for City visitors on a budget or those wanting to access Brick Lane and its famous curry restaurants. The walk from the tube is easy and safe. The area can be noisy in the week.
Petticoat Lane - world famous market where stalls line the streets and lanes on Sunday offering clothing and leather items.
Spitalfields Market - has shops and indoor market stalls with a large range of arts and crafts and a food court with many cafes and restaurants selling foods from all around the world at low prices.
Broadgate - a popular area with office workers for both ice skating in the winter and croquet in the summer! Houses numerous open-air musical events and street theatre entertainers in the summer months.
About the City Hotel
The City Hotel is a popular choice for local professionals and visitors to London. The Hotel is fast becoming a very popular cheap hotel in the City of London, boasting the newly designed Lane Restaurant and Bar.
The City Hotel offers comfortable accommodation with modern facilities and bright decor, and has an unrivalled location boasting excellent access to both East and West London and especially the City.
Situated just seconds from Brick Lane in E1, the City Hotel is ideal for business travellers looking to stay in the E1, EC1, E2 and EC2 areas. The hotel also boasts a wealth of history around it, with Whitechapel, The Tower of London, Bishopsgate and Spitalfields Market all nearby.
Travelling from Aldgate East station, just seconds from the City Hotel, guests can be in Liverpool Street in four minutes, Moorgate in just five minutes and St Paul's and Bank within 10 minutes or so. Covent Garden and Russell Square are just a twenty minute tube ride away. One stop away from the City Hotel is Tower Hill, home to the Medieval Fortress of London and the city side of the Docklands Light Railway. This enables City hotel guests to be in Limehouse, Canary Wharf, London Arena, Wapping and Rotherhithe in under twenty minutes.
In the surrounding area are the London Hospital, Guys Hospital, City University, Minories and Tower Bridge. Tower Bridge, St Mary's Axe and the financial district all giving a fantastic background to the local area.
The City Hotel offers large number of modern and comfortable guest rooms. Rooms are available as Single, Double, Twin, Triple and Family Rooms. With Family rooms sleeping a maximum of four persons. Rooms are spacious and feature Television, Telephone, Safe, Hair dryer and Tea and Coffee facilities.
Each guest room has an ensuite private bathroom complete with fresh towels, bath tub, shower and complimentary toiletries.
Rooms on the lower floors offer wireless WiFi internet connection, priced at approx £3.00 pounds per hour.
The City Hotel proudly offers guests the Lane Restaurant and Bar. The Lane Restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner, and serves menus with a fuse of contemporary and traditional dishes. Breakfast is served buffet style and dinner is served on an A La Carte menu, featuring dishes ranging from Mushroom soup to Tiger prawns to Risotto, Salmon and Steak. All ingredients are sourced locally and the menus offer a strong modern contrast to the traditional Indian cuisine associated with Brick Lane.
During the Summer, local artists are invited to display their works in the restaurant and there are regularly live jazz, soul and modern music performances.
The Lane Bar, fast becoming popular with trendy professionals and locals, offers a fantastic atmosphere which would be at home in Manhattan, Leicester Square or Barcelona. Offering an excellent range of cocktails and modern snacks, the Lane Bar also features an outside terrace. The City Hotel regularly offers events on the Terrace in Summer including live music and an outdoor film club, amongst many other special events.
A full room service menu is offered to guests wishing to dine with more privacy or in the more traditional decor of their room. The City hotel's Room service menu includes sandwiches, foccacia, caesar salads and pastas. A light selection of drinks are also available.
