The RE London Shoreditch
419 – 437 Hackney Road
London E2 8PP
The RE is a good value contemporary purpose-built hotel that is a popular alternative to better known London chains. The 178 rooms are modern and functional with a bar and restaurant on the ground floor. Nearby is trendy Broadway market with its organic food stalls, pubs and shops; London Fields with its open-air lido and Columbia Road flower market. Take a walk along the freshly cleaned canal with its pretty narrow boats and new riverside restaurants towards the Olympic village one and a half miles away.
Rooms from £79 to £299
10 mins walk to Bethnal Green tube station. Just 2 stops and 8 mins away from Stratford which is where Europe's largest shopping mall is.