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Built in 1884 as the railway hotel serving Liverpool Street station, and the only hotel in the City of London, The Great Eastern has recently been brilliantly renovated. Among its delights is a wonderful glass-domed restaurant, the Aurora – one of a number of restaurants and bars. Rooms are designed for business guests with ergonomic desks, ISDN lines, VCRs and DVD players.

This beautiful Neo-Georgian building was designed by Edwin Lutyens for the YWCA in 1929. The Queen Mary Hall is now a conference centre and the former chapel provides a quiet, discreet meeting room. The suites and rooms have been designed for a mainly business clientele, with modems, voice-mail and work desks.

As smart and stylish as you would expect from a new Canary Wharf hotel, the Four Seasons has a central atrium and good sense of space. Rooms are all well equipped for business needs and there is a good northern Italian restaurant.

Just over the river from the City, this handsome, modern, independently owned hotel is equipped for business guests. The restaurant serves a mixture of Malaysian, Indian and Chinese cuisines.

A modern hotel near the western end of Oxford Street. Facilities include a bar and restaurant, gym, health club and swimming pool. There are full business facilities in the executive lounge.

Located in a quiet area of west London north of Kensington Gardens, this Best Western hotel has 195 comfortable, spacious rooms, an inexpensive restaurant for residents and a pleasant lounge bar.

This circular hotel is a Knightsbridge landmark – views get better and more expensive the higher you go. Business guests are well catered for.

Many of the 800-plus rooms in this vast modern block near Tower Bridge and St Katharine’s Dock have spectacular river views.

One of a chain of ten, value-for-money London hotels, the London City hotel is not actually in the City, but backs onto newly fashionable Hoxton Square, an area known more for art than for business.

Just off Whitechapel High Street, at the bottom of Brick Lane, this hotel is ideal for business travellers who wish to be close to the City.