Offering spotless (if basic) rooms and friendly service, the Alhambra Hotel stands out among the many other hotels around King's Cross.

The Caring Hotel is a friendly, no-frills affair—a pleasant, inexpensive option among some of the fancier, pricier hotels near Hyde Park.

A well-run hotel with low nightly rates and decent, friendly owners is a gold mine for budget travelers. The 35-room Celtic Hotel is one such star of a hotel.

The easyHotel South Kensington has 34 en suite rooms, all fit into a gorgeous mansion located between the Gloucester and Earls Court Tube stations.

Situated near the Kings Cross train station, the two-star Hotel Meridiana offers rooms with or without private bathroom facilities.

The Ibis London Euston, conveniently located minutes north of Euston Station and the University of London, provides top-notch two-star rooms filled with convenient amenities at an exceptional price.

Situated just one block from Kensington Gardens, the Lancaster Hall Hotel provides clean hotel and hostel accommodations in a very '70s setting.

The cozy, 30-room Macdonald Hotel isn’t the most charming or crisply designed hotel in London—or in the King’s Cross area, for that matter—but it will fit the bill for many.

The Meininger maintains the spic-and-span mood and look so familiar in budget lodgings throughout the German-speaking countries.

The Seven Dials Hotel is a cramped two-star spot 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.