Where to stay in London for a vintage shopping weekend: the best hotels in Shoreditch and Spitalfields

If vintage shopping is one of the main reasons for your London trip, staying in Shoreditch or Spitalfields makes a whole lot of sense. Stay in the right place and you can spend the weekend exploring largely on foot, drop purchases back at the hotel when your bags get cumbersome, and head out again without wasting time crossing London. On Brick Lane alone, you get the Truman Brewery vintage markets, the shops on Cheshire Street, Rokit, ATIKA, and more lesser-known vintage shops than you can count. But not every nearby hotel is equally useful for a shopping weekend. Some have tiny rooms with nowhere sensible to put your purchases. Others are considerably more expensive without offering much advantage for this particular trip. The hotels below were chosen for their location, value, room practicality, accessibility and how well they work specifically as a base for exploring Shoreditch and Spitalfields. Prices in this part of London fluctuate enormously, so the £ symbols below are relative…