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Thistle London Holborn

4.0 star property

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Exterior
Lobby
Lobby
Premium bedding, in-room safe, desk, laptop workspace
Breakfast, lunch, dinner served; British cuisine

Reviews

8.4 out of 10
Very good

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Room service
  • Air conditioning
  • 24/7 front desk
  • Housekeeping

Explore the area

Map
Bloomsbury Way, London, England, WC1A 2SD
  • The British Museum
    ‪3 min walk‬
  • London Eye
    ‪5 min drive‬
  • Buckingham Palace
    ‪5 min drive‬
  • London (LHR-Heathrow)
    ‪37 min drive‬

Room options

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Deluxe Room, 1 King Bed

Deluxe Room, 1 King Bed

8.8 out of 10
Excellent
(13 reviews)
  • 18 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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Junior Suite, 1 Double Bed with Sofa bed

Junior Suite, 1 Double Bed with Sofa bed

9.0 out of 10
Wonderful
(6 reviews)
  • 40 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed and 1 Double Sofa Bed

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Executive Room, 1 King Bed

Executive Room, 1 King Bed

8.6 out of 10
Excellent
(7 reviews)
  • 30 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

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Premium bedding, in-room safe, desk, laptop workspace

Standard Single Room, 1 Single Bed

8.0 out of 10
Very good
(1 review)
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Twin Bed

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Premium bedding, in-room safe, desk, laptop workspace

Standard Double Room, 1 Double Bed

8.6 out of 10
Excellent
(45 reviews)
  • 16 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Premium bedding, in-room safe, desk, laptop workspace

Standard Twin Room, 2 Single Beds

8.6 out of 10
Excellent
(14 reviews)
  • 16 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Twin Beds

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About this property

Thistle London Holborn

Edwardian hotel with a 24-hour front desk and a restaurant
A restaurant, a bar/lounge, and coffee/tea in a common area are available at this smoke-free hotel. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include a business center, laundry facilities, and a 24-hour front desk. Change of towels is available on request.
Thistle London Holborn offers 129 air-conditioned accommodations with laptop-compatible safes and hair dryers. Beds feature premium bedding. 38-inch LCD televisions come with digital channels. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations with rainfall showerheads, and complimentary toiletries.

Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks, desk chairs, and phones. Change of towels and change of bedsheets can be requested. Housekeeping is provided daily.

Our customers tell us they can't get enough of the helpful staff at Thistle London Holborn. During your stay, you're just a quick walk from The British Museum. Free WiFi in public areas, a restaurant, and a bar are available.
  • Free WiFi
  • Enjoy a bite to eat at Kingsley Two Brasserie, a brasserie that serves British cuisine
  • Buffet breakfast served daily for a fee
  • Amenities include a business center, 7 meeting rooms, and laundry facilities
  • Guests have great things to say about the helpful staff and the location
  • Just a 3-minute walk from Shaftesbury Theatre and 4 minutes by foot from The British Museum
There's a restaurant on site. You can enjoy a drink at the bar/lounge. A business center and 7 meeting rooms are available.

WiFi is free in public spaces. The business-friendly Thistle London Holborn also features multilingual staff, coffee/tea in a common area, and laundry facilities.

This Edwardian London hotel is smoke free.

For a fee, guests can enjoy buffet breakfast on weekdays from 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM and on weekends from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM.
Kingsley Two Brasserie - This brasserie specializes in British cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and light fare.
Kingsley Bar - This bar serves light fare only. Open daily.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.

Languages

Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transport

  • Offsite parking; discounts available

Food and drink

  • Buffet breakfast available for a fee 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM on weekdays and 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM on weekends; GBP 16.50 per person
  • A bar/lounge
  • A restaurant
  • Coffee and tea in common areas

Restaurants on site

  • Kingsley Bar
  • Kingsley Two Brasserie

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage

Guest services

  • Change of bedsheets (on request)
  • Change of towels on request
  • Housekeeping (daily)
  • Multilingual staff

Business services

  • 7 meeting rooms
  • Business centre

Accessibility

  • Area rugs in public areas
  • Lift (140 centimetre wide door)
  • Tile flooring in public areas

More

  • 1 building
  • 100% renewable energy
  • 6 floors
  • At least 80% lighting from LEDs
  • Biodegradable coffee stirrers available
  • Biodegradable drinking straws available
  • Built in 1989
  • Comprehensive food waste policy
  • Comprehensive recycling policy
  • Edwardian architecture
  • No plastic coffee stirrers
  • No plastic drinking straws
  • No plastic soft drink bottles
  • No plastic water bottles
  • Reusable cups
  • Smoke-free property
  • Vegan dining options
  • Vegetarian breakfast available
  • Vegetarian dining options

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Premium bedding

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Rainfall showerhead
  • Shampoo
  • Shower/bathtub combination
  • Soap
  • Toilet paper
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • 38-inch LCD TV with digital channels

Food and drink

  • Limited room service

More

  • Air conditioning
  • Bulk dispensers for toiletries
  • Desk
  • Desk chair
  • Eco-friendly toiletries
  • Energy-saving switches in guestrooms
  • Heating (climate-controlled)
  • Iron/ironing board
  • Laptop workspace
  • Laptop-compatible safe
  • LED lighting
  • Phone
  • Recycling

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: midnight
Late check-in subject to availability
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
If you are planning to arrive after 10:00 PM please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

  • No pets allowed

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.

Payment types at the property

Important information

Optional extras

The fees and deposits listed below will be charged at the time of service, check-in, or check-out.

  • Fee for buffet breakfast: approximately GBP 16.50 per person

This may not be a comprehensive list. Fees and deposits are subject to change and might not include tax.

You need to know

This property is managed by a professional host. The provision of housing is linked to their trade, business, or profession.
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards and debit cards; cash is not accepted
Guests arriving after 10:00 PM must make advance arrangements by contacting the property using the information on the booking confirmation. Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property.

Property is also known as

Kingsley Hotel
Kingsley Hotel London
Kingsley London
Thistle Holborn Kingsley Hotel
Thistle Holborn Kingsley
The Kingsley By Thistle Hotel London
Kingsley By Thistle London
Kingsley By Thistle Hotel London
Thistle Holborn Kingsley Hotel London
Thistle Holborn Kingsley London
Thistle Holborn
Thistle London Holborn Hotel
Thistle London Holborn London
Thistle London Holborn Hotel London

Thistle London Holborn Reviews

Reviews

8.4

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 455 out of 1005 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 378 out of 1005 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 103 out of 1005 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 39 out of 1005 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 30 out of 1005 reviews

8.8/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

8.2/10

Amenities

8.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

6/10 Okay

Gemma

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities

Nice but not for the price I paid

Lots of damp patches in the room, water leaked through ceiling into the wardrobe, telephone didn’t work. Staff were very friendly and willing to help
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Jeremy

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great location. Helpful staff.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Lianis

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The staff was very professional, polite, service was impeccable, room was very comfortable and the location was excellent! We enjoyed Thank you
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Danielle, Bradford

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed before, great location and nice tooms
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Alexander

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
After 30~ hours of transit from Australia to London, the staff were very welcoming and let us check in quite early, and comped us breakfast to aid in our getting into town. The property was very spacious and welcoming. If we ever are in this area again, we will endeavour to stay here
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Eric

Stayed 6 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Chris

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Jen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

2/10 Terrible

katy

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Victoria

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
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Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Philip

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

English breakfast

The pictures that we found online did not do justice to the breakfast that they served; if I had known that they provided a whole english breakfast everyday, I would have opted for it, rather than pay the higher price. The hotel is well located for our travel purposes.
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Judit, Scarsdale

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Stephenie, Atlanta

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
a quaint property very convenient to the Underground and amazingly situated near the British Museum. The bar area was very nice and the staff was friendly. Rooms were small but tidy and had everything you needed.
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Nicholas

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Decent hotel in excellent location

Decent hotel, very central and excellent for West end. Comfortable bed and room. Only issue was couldn't turn shower cooler in the evening, then next morning no hot water.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Charlotte

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Comfortable and friendly

A friendly, clean and comfortable stay with lovely food. Definitely booking again.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Trevor

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great situation in Central London. Very convenient for the British Museum and Covent Garden. Superb breakfast. Rooms plenty big enough and well appointed. Staff helpful.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Jack

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Friendly, welcoming & accommodating staff, the room was generally clean however the bathroom could have done with a little more attention, big comfortable bed in the executive room, quiet internally but a bit of road noise for usual London traffic, however we were on the corner at the front of the hotel. Breakfast was buffet but well priced & well catered for. Hotel was able to store our luggage while we attended a stage show, we could collect much later on that evening despite checking out earlier that same day, all for no extra charge. A lovely experience all things considered, we will likely be back.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

4/10 Poor

Mark

Travelled with family, Travelled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Upon arrival, one of the rooms we had book wasn’t ready for checking into. There was no apology for this. We also opted in for a room upgrade but completely understood that this may or may not happen. The one room that was ready could upgrade to then be told that we couldn’t as it wasn’t ready. We were told it would be two hours before that room was ready but we had dinner and a show so left it. Once in the room, it was quite a nice set up actually. However, you could feel every spring in the sofa bed which caused an uncomfortable nights sleep. The sides were also covered in dust. The room felt rather cold. The bathroom facilities were fine but the towel rail didn’t seem to work. The lift also seemed temperamental. It regularly said a warning about how it was overloaded. I fail to see how myself and one adult equates to 450KGs. There were multiple families offended by this. It also makes matters worse when the cleaning staff are using it during peak times which means that there’s delays and constant overloading messages. Upon checking out, I was told I owed money for an upgrade. I refused because we never had the upgrade. I was asked how our stay was and I said ok but there were things that wasn’t great. No apology. No discussion. Overall, it felt like we weren’t wanted or welcome. A real shame because I’ve stayed twice before and had a good stay. However, the lack of customer service and the poor room meant that I won’t be returning.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Steven

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Andy

Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Dinah

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
A smart hotel with comfy rooms.. good breakfast… polite staff. Excellent location for tubes and access to theatres. Second stay and definitely stay again.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Richard

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Gareth

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent service
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Daniel

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The staff was very friendly and helpfull. The room was very clean and quiet.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

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