I've been looking for a hotel in the Paddington area to recommend for visitors coming in on the Heathrow Express and I recently stayed at Hotel Indigo Paddington and think this could be the one.

I like the contemporary style that's spreading across London hotels as it seems luxurious without being chintzy and cluttered and I'm a fan of images of London on the walls so this hotel looked like it fitted the bill so I booked to stay.

The hotel was really easy to reach from the station (literally the road opposite the tube exit), and staff were so welcoming it has to be mentioned as that's not always the case.

Find out more about my stay by reading my Hotel Indigo Paddington Review.

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There's a place in London where you can stay in a choice of six cells and there's no criminal record needed. Clink Hostels have two locations in King's Cross. Clink78 is a hostel inside a 200 year old former Magistrates' Court where Charles Dickens was a court scribe. The front of the building, lobby, court rooms and six cells have to be preserved so here's your chance to spend a night in a cell - and be able to tell your friends without shame!

Clink78 is a pretty funky place and the Clash Bar took its name from a famous pigeon shooting incident when the band were fined for shooting three pigeons with an air rifle thinking they were ordinary birds but it was discovered they were in fact expensive racing pigeons. The court case happened at this courthouse so the band decided to partly film the video for Rudeboy outside the courthouse.

Clink Hostels have described themselves as the "Tate Modern of hostels." Find out more about Clink Hostels.

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