Threadneedles, The City's Boutique Hotel

This beautifully converted banking hall is now a stunning 5-star hotel offering free Wi-Fi and beautiful, boutique-style rooms in the heart of the City, London's business and financial district. Overlooking the Bank of England, Threadneedles, The City's Boutique Hotel has a superb location, within minutes of the Lloyd's Building, the Strand, the Tate Modern, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Tower of London and Shakespeare's Globe. Originally built in 1856, the hotel combines contemporary luxury and state-of-the-art facilities with beautiful original features, including marble columns and a circular atrium with a breathtaking 19th-century stained-glass dome. All of the luxurious and elegant air-conditioned rooms have Frette Egyptian cotton bed linen, iPod docking stations and plasma flat-screen TVs with satellite channels in the bedrooms and in the en suite bathrooms. Bonds restaurant serves modern British cuisine and there is a choice of superb luxury breakfasts available each morning. Room service is available 24 hours a day.