Thistle Piccadilly Hotel

Now taken over by Every Hotel.
Perfectly located just off Leicester Square, the hotel itself is lovely — and the rooms are sound proofed so you don’t have to worry about all that central London noise when you’re trying to nod off. And I love a good rainfall shower.
Newly opened, Every Hotel pride themselves on their amenities — all rooms have a free (non-​alcoholic) mini bar, Smart TVs and Nespresso machines. They also claim to have the world’s fastest hotel WiFi — now I can’t tell you how accurate this is, but I can confirm it was pretty damn speedy! They really have paid attention to the details — as well as the usual three prong plug sockets, there are also direct USB plugs in the wall to charge phones (or whatever else).

This hotel is now call every hotel
Perfect location
Great staff
Great wifi FREE !!!
Room on small but very clean and good enough to
Spend 6 night which we did staff was alway around to help great TV stations
Close to many tube station
Breakfast great best-​omelet and porridge we had!! need to ask and they make for you
If u r going to theater in west end or even the national (so close to tube) this is the place for your stay !!!
We will return

Note the name change: This is now called the «every Hotel»!
My husband and I just spent a week at the every Hotel in Piccadilly Circus, and I would not hesitate to stay there again if I were to return to London.
The location couldn’t be better. If you are arriving in Heathrow, hop on the Piccadilly Line underground to get into town. It takes about 45 minutes. Get off at the Piccadilly Circus stop and head for exit («Way Out») #4. Walk straight out of the underground station, cross the street on your right, walk down two blocks and turn right, and you are there. You are across from Leicester Square, two blocks from Chinatown, three blocks from Old Compton Street (where the gay pubs /​clubs /​bars are), a five minute walk from Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery, and in the middle of a multitude of theatres, restaurants, bars, and shops. Trust me, –this– is where you want to stay.
The room was gorgeous. Check out the photos online. It’s contemporary and very tasteful … just like all of the public spaces. Everyone we encountered at the hotel was pleasant and eager to help us with whatever we needed. The free WiFi was great.
One (small) complaint about the bathroom: The toilet seat /​bowl was a square shape! It looks cool but in reality it isn’t that comfortable.
I hesitate to share this next bit of information because I really liked the hotel, but if I am to be honest in my review …
My only –real– reservation (pardon the pun) about the hotel is the restaurant in the basement. They have a breakfast buffet with sausage, bacon, two types of eggs, tater tots, baked tomatoes, baked beans, a variety of fruit, yogurt, cereal, toast, muffins, juice, coffee, etc … But I found a hair in my eggs the second morning we were there.
I have a beard so I thought that it –could– have been one of mine, so I just ignored it and finished my meal. The third morning I found another hair in my eggs that definitely was not mine. It was cooked into the fried egg. I didn’t say anything because there were a lot of other diners and I didn’t want to cause a scene. I just found breakfast elsewhere for the rest of my stay.
Everything else about the hotel was fabulous. I’d stay there again in a heartbeat. I just wouldn’t eat at the restaurant.

.5
I’d probably give this hotel 3.5 stars if I could.
To start with, they changed their name to «every» hotel before I arrived and they sent me no notification. So it took me a few minutes of walking around to figure that out.
There were two problems with my room that would prevent it from being 4stars. #1 the bathroom sink was clogged and #2 was the configuration of The shower. The shower door would only open to the inside and the shower head came directly down from the ceiling so in order to enter the shower you had to walk directly under the water coming out of the shower head. The shower still had a good water pressure and you could still take a good shower. But it’s just not the best design and not the design of a four-​star hotel.
The good parts of the hotel are that the rooms are well appointed modern and comfortable. The location is really great since you can get to Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square very easily. You also have access to two subway stations and Piccadilly Circus and in Leicester Square within easy walking distance.
This is a decent hotel for business travelers since there were adequate places to plug in equipment phones and computers etc. One other good point worth mentioning is they have free Wi-​Fi.

We stayed here for 4 nights on our long-​awaited tour of France and England. The hotel was a few blocks away from the Tube, so since we took the EuroStar from France to London, we got a 2 Zone Travel Card from the Rail Station that allowed us to get around London on the Tube with ease.
This place is literally in the epicenter of so many things to do it will make your head spin. There are tons of restaurants within walking distance, and it’s in the middle of London’s Theater district, so we took in a show while we were there.
The room itself was comfortable — it’s a new room, with new bathroom fixtures, nestled in an old building. We could see Parliment and the Eye from our room, but only the top of Big Ben — another building was obstructing our view. It was a 15 minute walk to Parliment and Buckingham Palace, so we went and saw /​heard it first hand anyway.
The hotel staff was always pleasent and polite. The only glitches in our trip is the desk lamp wouldn’t work for more than 5 minutes, and the AC failed on the last night. The hotel was full, so the manager comped us breakfast in their restaurant, which was pretty darn good.
We had a great trip — we had a king bedroom unit that included an ironing board, an iron and a hair dryer, and easy to use free WIFI. The TV was nice and worked fine, for what little we used it for (checking weather or watching the World Cup). The hotel is literally two blocks from four different tube lines, and there are multiple discount theater ticket places (2 for one basically) within 200 meters of your front door, and one 10 meters away.
The price was moderate for the neighborhood, but pricey based on our travels elsewhere.

I stayed here for one about two month during the Olympics. It was very lovely staying there. Because of my long stay and my charm ;), I was able to get the best room in the hotel. The room is on the very Conner top. It is a suit looking over the whole of Piccadilly down to Leicester Square. My suit was a mini palace… All the hotel worker, where so so so amazing. We became good fiends and family. They all still contact me to check on me. I can’t wait to go back and de hello. Even some of the guest became good friends. The area could be a bit scary during big events like the Olympics but the hotel guest and the rooms are lovely. :).

Arrived tonight and was disappointed by the room. It was supposed to be an Executive King. Yes, it had a king bed, but there was no chest of drawers to store sweaters or socks, etc. Could hear talking from the room next door, and the bathroom was rather small. Although booked for 2 people, the bathroom only had 1 set of towels. Luckily, I found the second set in the desk drawer (WTF?). After going out for some evening sight seeing and dinner, came back ready for bed, but first wanted to shower. Alas, no hot water. (Again, WTF?). The front desk did promptly send up someone to check, who confirmed there was no hot water. Turns out, there was no hot water in the hotel. About ½ hour after I called, the front desk called and said the hot water had to be reset and should be ready in 15 minutes. We’ll see. I’ll update more as the stay progresses to see if it improves.
UPDATE; Hot water came on — so that issue has been resolved.

If you are looking for a quality, mid price hotel in the centre of London I doubt you could do better than this Thistle hotel. Its is literally a stones throw from Leicester Sq and just around the corner from the Piccadilly Circus tube station.
The hotel is small but not cramped and nicely appointed. The staff were super friendly and gave myself and my girlfriend a free room upgrade for the weekend (although they did try selling it to us for an extra £20 a night so watch out for that). The room was a decent size for the centre of London, very bright and the bed was HUGE! We chose a room at the back of the hotel so it would be quite, but you could hear some bleed from the stage show running next-​door — but that was over about 10 o’clock. Another huge plus was the shower which was AMAZING.
If I was to pick one fault with the place it would be that they didn’t clean behind the bathroom door so there was a little triangle of dirt and hair. But this was only noticeable because the rest of the room was so clean.
We didn’t have any of the food so I can’t comment on that, but as a place to put your head down after a busy days shopping/​site seeing I would highly recommend it. We will be back.

We got a twin room for one night on Last Minute Deals for £100 (we literally booked the night before). I was a little hesitant about a hotel right between Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus because of the noise. However, it’s location is highly convenient! Check in went smooth, although we found out there was no breakfast included with our room.
The lobby was nice and when we arrived at noon, we were surprised to hear our room was ready. The room was really nice, beds were comfortable, there was a small couch, a trouser press, a flat screen t.v. with cable, a nice view, and a large bathroom. With the windows closed, you really could not hear very much going on outside! And that was a relief!
The downsides… it was quite warm and stuffy in the room and in order to sleep without the noise we had to keep the window shut, but the «air conditioning» wasn’t very effective. I found a kettle, cups, tea, and coffee in the cupboard after snooping around, but the kettle did not work. And the décor in the bathroom could’ve used updating… it was… very… pink. The toilet also took some effort to flush.
Other than that, our stay was great and I’d recommend it to anyone, but unless you get a nice deal, it can get very pricey!

I think the previous reviewer doesn’t do this place justice. It’s definitely a little ‘tired’ and could do with modernising but what a fantastic location.
Walk out the front door and you almost stumble down the steps right into Leicester Square.
OK, that might be exactly why not this place, but if you want to be slap bang in the centre of tourist London, this is it.
Everywhere is in walking distance, Covent Garden, Oxford Street, Trafalgar Square, even Westminster and The London Eye across the waters, Soho, and of course Leicester Square and Piccadilly, spin a pin and this is spot centre — fantastic.
If lucky, some of the rooms look out over Leicester Square but still quiet with double glazing. Not cheap, again unless lucky with a special deal or odd booking time.
Highly recommended for its location — put up with the outdated décor and go find breakfast in any one of the innumerable little cafes and eating houses around and about.

Tres bien placé
Cet hotel (proposé par Eurostar) est très bien placé pour sortir — le Samedi soir on est tout de suite dans la foule au bord de Soho (que je trouve est le quartier le plus sympa). Je n’ai quasiment pas pris les transports pendant tout le weekend, mes endroits favouris sont tous dans le coin. Le service est bien — comme partout à Londres il n’y a quasiment que des non-​Britanniques assez jeunes pour assurer le service mais au moins ils sont nombreux. L’hotel est propre, tout marche — je n’au trouvé qu’une decoration en plastique un peu cassé à critiquer.

Un hotel simple loin des hotels de chaine
Ce petit hotel (7 étages tout de même) situé à 2 pas de Picadilly Circus et 500m de Covent garden reflète un charme sympathique, loin des styles hotel de chaine. Ce qui est par dessus tout agréable c’est qu’il est vraiment très bien placé et qu’il est aussi très calme. Au niveau prix, c’est Londres donc ça reste cher…