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Leonardo Royal Hotel London Tower Bridge

There are people who want their English hotel rooms to look and feel more like corporate American ones, and for them, this sprawling modern-built (2011) travelers’ hive supplies a reliable, if impersonal, experience that can be kind on the pocketbook. The lobby at this busy hotel can be chaotic, but upstairs, rooms are as calm, spacious, and as inoffensively designed as at any major business hotel in North America, and the Tower of London and the draws of Spitalfields and Whitechapel are all a few minutes’ walk away. What it lacks in distinctly London charm it makes up for in breadth of amenities, space, and a made-to-order group breakfast.