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title: "Strand Palace — London"
description: "A 788-room independent on the Strand, open since 1909, two minutes from Trafalgar Square. The best-located four-star on this page, and the one with the smallest rooms."
url: "https://travelshifu.com/hotels/london/strand-palace/"
type: "hotel review"
source: "TravelShifu"
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# Strand Palace

A 788-room independent on the Strand, open since 1909, two minutes from Trafalgar Square. The best-located four-star on this page, and the one with the smallest rooms.

## Verdict

The best value address in central London if you can live with a small room — our hotel data provider scores its location a straight 10 and its service 9.99, and its room quality 7.9.

Nothing else on this page puts you this close to this much. Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery are both 0.2 km away, the British Museum 0.8 km, Big Ben 1.1 km. You can walk to four Underground lines and to most of the West End theatres, which is why this address has been a hotel since 1909.

The supplier’s guest analysis gives service 9.99 and location 10.0 out of 10 — the two highest category scores we hold on any property. Guests consistently praise the location and the staff, in those words.

They are equally consistent about the rooms: "very small rooms" is a named recurring complaint, and room quality scores 7.9 against a value-for-money score of 7.89 — both the lowest figures on this property. Cleanliness at 8.44 is mid-table rather than good. This is a hotel you book to be somewhere, not to spend the afternoon in.

There is no parking, which for this address is a feature rather than an omission — you are inside the Congestion Charge zone and Charing Cross is a four-minute walk.

## How old is the Strand Palace and how big is it?

It has been open since 1909 and has 788 bedrooms, which makes it by far the largest property on this page. That scale is why it holds a central Strand address at four-star rather than five-star pricing.

## Are the rooms really that small?

Yes, and the guest data says so directly — "very small rooms" is one of only two recurring complaints in our hotel data provider’s analysis, and room quality scores 7.9 out of 10 against a location score of 10. Budget for a compact room and the rest of the stay is excellent value.

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