5 new standout hotels in London

In the city's current hotel-opening boom times, here are five standouts

Well established as a design capital — the famed Victoria and Albert Museum was founded in the 19th century as a design museum — London has become the world’s best hotel city. There are the pillars of timeless elegance, like Claridge’s and The Connaught, which set the hospitality bar quite high while injecting glamour into the hotel cocktail bar and restaurant. England’s capital also hosts upstarts like The Hoxton, which opened its first hotel in 2006 in Shoreditch, an East End neighbourhood, helping to transform the district and redefine the hotel lobby as a creative hangout, aglow with laptops.