Wombats City Hostel London

Wombat is all warm, stylish interiors, natural wood furnishings and comes with its own brick-arched ceiling basement bar. Its 120 rooms, including dorms, twins and doubles (from £40) are all en suite. There’s even a terrace with hammocks and free wifi throughout. Its location is great, both for the galleries, shopping and bars of the East End, but also for the river and sights to the south like Tower of London and Borough Market and The South Bank. You’re stumbling distance from the excellent curry houses of Brick Lane, though there is a lovely communal kitchen on site as well.