A hip Hoxton hotel that won't clean out your account

The other day I told you to check out some of my old London haunts. In particular I showed you my old work local right near Hoxton Square and the officially buzzing night life of Shoreditch. Well seeing as you're most likely not from round these parts you're going to need a place to stay the night after hanging around with weird looking skinny jeans merchants.

Now unless you pay stupid money, London hotels are traditionally complete rubbish. However, the Hoxton Hotel on Great Eastern Street is different; an actually nice hotel in London, that isn't prohibitively expensive. It's about five minutes walk from Old Street tube station (although make sure you leave at the right exit, other wise you'll be halfway to Clerkenwell/Islington/The City before you end up a lost, suitcase-dragging mugging magnet), and pretty much next door to the Shoreditch triangle, where you'll find all sorts of ridiculous posers and suburban indie kids ignoring the local ethnic minorities.

Right now The Hoxton Hotel (or The Hox as it irritatingly calls itself) is having all sorts of offers on, including rooms from £78 for the May bank holidays. The rooms themselves are designed simply but elegantly, and they're practical too; free WiFi is standard, and they actually have proper power showers. They also deliver breakfast right to your door. Yeah, so it's a healthy brekkie with fruit and yoghurt, would fewer calories every now and again really hurt you?