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When you think abstractly about London budget hotels, a hotel just like Seven Dials is probably floating around in your head. It’s a cramped hotel in just about the best location possible, smack-dab on Monmouth Street in one of the cutest—and most crowded—corners of London’s West End. Its name is no lie. The hotel is in fact located near the Seven Dials junction, where seven lanes come together in a roundabout crowned by a pillar which features, rather confusingly, a sundial with just six faces.
Seven Dials Hotel’s 18 rooms are connected by a tiny warren-like staircase and hallways that made this reviewer want to hunch over. Rooms are small and decorated in a rote but not unappealing fashion: pale wood bed units and bedside tables cradle beds in green and white-striped bedspreads. Décor is kept at a minimum, though rooms are well maintained. Each features the obligatory teakettle and wall-mounted television.
Despite the triple (yes, you read that right) glazing of the front windows, light sleepers should request back rooms. Monmouth is a hub of activity and you won’t want to be awakened by the din of late-night partiers.
The Seven Dials clientele consists mostly of business and tourist visitors, with nary a backpacker in sight. Guests come from the UK and elsewhere in Europe. The rates are very good for London.
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