Hotels

Hoxton Hotel
Located in the heart of hip Shoreditch, this is ideally placed for nipping into town or out to the Olympic Park, and is surrounded by restaurants, bars and shops.
£99-£249. 81 Great Eastern Street EC2A 3HU (+44 20 7550 1000/ www.hoxtonhotels.com).

City Hotel
Not exactly a boutique option, but this is conveniently located for the Olympic Park as well as for the arty attractions on the South Bank.
£40.00-£359.00 a double. 12 Osborn Street, Algate East E1 6TE (+44 20 7247 3313/ www.cityhotellondon.co.uk).

Arosfa
This bed and breakfast offers some very reasonable room rates, particularly given its central location and the swish, nicely designed interiors.
£95-£295 a double. 83 Gower Street WC1E 6HJ (+44 20 7636 2115/ www.arosfalondon.com).

Rough Luxe
The name of this King’s Cross hotel captures its style – a rough-round-the-edges luxury feel, with artfully distressed furniture, torn wallpaper and signature works of art.
£189-£289 a double. 1 Birkenhead Street WC1H 8BA (+44 20 7837 5338/ www.roughluxe.co.uk).

Stylotel
If you’ve got tickets for events away from the Olympics Park (the big football matches at Wembley, for example, or the archery at Lord’s Cricket Ground), then this Paddington hotel could be a good bet. It’s ‘retro-futurist’ in style – all metal floors and panelling and ‘pod-style’ bathrooms.
£95-£230 a double. 160-162 Sussex Gardens W2 1UD (+44 20 7723 1026/ www.stylotel.com).