St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel, London
Expert reviews
“St. Pancras Renaissance first opened as the Midland Grand Hotel in 1873, it reopened in 2011 after a comprehensive renovation. Now it’s one of the grandest hotels in London. The double-height Chambers Suites offer mesmerizing views right into the station.”
Featured in New York Times’ 36 Hours in King’s Cross, London.
“The St. Pancras Renaissance is easily one of London’s most recognizable hotels. The massive Gothic red brick façade with signature soaring spires was originally opened in 1873 as the Midland Grand Hotel, and was built alongside the St. Pancras train station.”
What guests liked
- Excellent location
- Comfortable beds
- Boutique style
- Friendly staff
- Beautiful building
All you need to know
The St Pancras Renaissance Hotel is situated amid the lively King Cross and above the St. Pancras station, making it convenient for visitors to travel across the city. The Cross neighborhood has great transport connections, elegant restaurants, historical places, and art exhibits within a few meters. It is known to be London’s most sentimental building, with its aesthetic red brick exterior, appearing to be an admirable example of Gothic Revival architecture.
The interior of the hotel is a magnificent architectural sight, it displays the finest of their metalwork, and handmade wall prints and a majestic staircase captivating the traveler’s interest towards the Victorian period.
The hotel has 244 rooms to accommodate its guests, these rooms are categorized into 12 types and 2 wings. These rooms are spacious and feature air conditioning, TV, room service, fireplace, and many more facilities with a little difference in the rent. One of the greatest facilities provided by this hotel is that it is pet-friendly, so you can enjoy your venture with your dear pets.
St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel’s other amenities include valet parking, indoor pool, spa, gym, free WiFi, bars and two extravagant restaurants all under one roof. This five-star hotel also offers you a venue for your destination wedding, a business meeting, or a small party.
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Location
Recent guest reviews
1 May 2025
Decent hotel, good location, pricey for a 1 night stay
Location was excellent for what I needed. Room was OK, had the minimum needed for my stay.
Like most hotels in the area, price was expensive due to it being London Marathon weekend
1 May 2025
Beautiful hotel
The overall decor and ambiance. The food and drinks were delicious. Welcoming check-in experience.
The room and bathroom itself were too simple. Wish more effort was put into the decor and feel of the room.
22 April 2025
Pleasant
Convenient location
Passageways rather dull and poorly lit
22 April 2025
Fabulous building and location, and the Spa makes it extra special
Great location, and the spa is beautiful
Shame the bar closes so early
22 April 2025
Pleasant
Great location, good room size, clean, food was good.
Quite expensive, unusual smell particularly in communal areas, slow service. Didn't feel value for money.
20 April 2025
Just a wonderful experience with great location
Staff attitude really good
Aer conditioning in the bedroom on constant
19 April 2025
We have wanted to stay in this hotel for a long time. Our stay did not disappoint staff all brilliant
Welcoming, spacious and great facilities
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17 April 2025
when travelling to France we always stay at this hotel.
The location close to the Eurostar terminal
Nothing really.
12 April 2025
Fabulous
Staff, free upgrades
10 April 2025
Fabulous
Ideal location, lovely room, extremely comfortable bed.
10 April 2025
Ok but expensive
The hotel was beautiful
The booking hadn’t been transferred between booking.com & hotel
10 April 2025
Great location
Great location for the Eurostar. Very good service throughout. Lovely restaurants and bars.
Hair dryer in room was useless.
6 April 2025
Pre-Eurostar with style.
Location. Handy for St Pancras International for onward travel. A little luxury to start our trip.
4 April 2025
Convenient & available
the bar is impressive even with 7 broken ribs, a newly plated collarbone and repaired punctured/collapsed lung. we had to return home overland from Switzerland due to a slight ski accident so the proximity of the Hotel to the railway platform was great. the complimentary Prosecco at reception was very welcome
the room could have been bigger although i was taking so many pain killers i didn't really know where i was.
31 March 2025
For us it worked well
Access to the Chambers Cub, ease of getting to the Eurostar check in, close by Coal Drop Yard for eating and shopping
25 March 2025
Overall very enjoyable
Location was amazing - handy for rail transport and hop on hop off buses
Some staff could have been more amenable
22 March 2025
Fabulous
High quality
The radio came on 6am. pre-set alarm
20 March 2025
Pleasant
Magnificent setting. Attentive staff.
Took £100 deposit from credit card on arrival. Toilet flush worked but was broken from wall fitting. Breakfast £60 extra on top of £360 room cost.
16 March 2025
Lovely start to our break away
Didn't have breakfast as we had an early start but everything was great
16 March 2025
Exceptional rooms with easy access to Eurostar.
Very comfortable room. Exceptionally convenient for St Pancras.
The meal we chose in the Hansom could have been better
15 March 2025
Enjoyable experience in beautiful historic building
Excellent breakfast serving all choices of hot and cold food
The bedroom was large and comfortable if a little austere
6 March 2025
Interesting and fairly good thought very expensive. I am unlikely to book it again despite its good
Good food although restricted to one cold dish and one hot one.
I was sure I had booked a room with two beds but was told on arrival that there wasn’t any rooms like that available. I would not have booked if I realised my daughter and I would have to share a room.
4 March 2025
Perfect for a weekend getaway in London
The breakfast in the booking office was very good. The building is gorgeous and so was the room. We came down from Leeds and the train comes in to Kings Cross so it was a great location for us.
The hotel says it is part of the pledge of reducing food waste however offer a cold and hot dish. The cold dish of homemade Granola was massive given it was a part of a larger breakfast offering. This led to my partner only having a few mouthfuls as she wanted to enjoy her warm breakfast. I did not like the buffet breakfast and was surprised this was offered as a good thing to those it paid for more expensive rooms. I prefer table service. Trying to figure out the lights in the room and finding out you cannot have the bathroom lights on without some of the room lights on unless you have the sequence correct. The pillows were to thin for my liking and there was nothing to suggest I could have a choice of different pillows.
1 March 2025
Good hotel. conveniently located.
Nice room. Good evening meal.
Slow service at Breakfast. We had a train to catch!
26 February 2025
Fabulous
Love the decor and all the friendly staff
25 February 2025
Very good
Location
Prices were excessive plus the 20% VAT & 12.5% service charges on top - offered nuts as snacks with a bar drink and then billed $8GBP for them in addition - easily blew $50GBP with 2 nightcaps. Better to eat offsite - club sandwich was uninspired & cold
20 February 2025
Great if you are using Eurostar.
You have retained the character of the building
The Hansom is a little lacking in atmosphere. We had booked dinner there but changed to the Booking Office which was excellent. A mention to your Front of House that night - Monday 17 February. A lovely young lady who went out of her way to accommodate us, we had a guest in a wheelchair and she and the waitress could not have been more helpful
17 February 2025
Great location and care from staff
Position and food good. Staff great.
No kettle. Only coffee machine. Noisy bathroom fan all time
17 February 2025
Lovely hotel but not as good as it could have been
It was a beautiful building, great decor, check in was excellent.
This isn’t necessarily criticism but I just felt there wasn’t enough attention to detail at the property which let it down the waiting staff at breakfast were very poor and slow.
13 February 2025
Beautiful set piece hotel with boring rooms
The hotel itself is magnificently beautiful. The building is amazing and fun to walk around in and explore.
There were some moths in our room, and the rooms don't really match up to the opulence and Victorian charm of the hotel itself. They're just kitted out like a regular corporate hotel chain.
12 February 2025
It was really good but expensive
Fabulous building and a great location
Expensive for quite small room
3 February 2025
Very good
Check in process too long
30 January 2025
Beautiful hotel - great experience
The reception area and Victorian wing is stunning
Room was fairly basic for the price but lovely all the same, fully equipped and clean, good size.
21 January 2025
We are so glad we elected this hotel as it exceeded our expectations.
The greeting at reception was great and the lady that handled our check in very professional and helpful. It was my wife's 60th birthday and when we got to our room there was a wonderful cake on a marble slab with Happy birthday along with a bottle of sparkling wine in ice. Very nice touch. The room was excellent, outstanding finishes, comfortable bed and it was great to be able to stay in this great building. Breakfast was one of the best selections I have had and I tried new dishes which were excellent, again with very attentative staff. Thank you for making this a wonderful stay for us.
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14 January 2025
A fabulous stay before a Eurostar trip
The hotel is beautiful
Nothing
13 January 2025
Beautiful stay!
the common areas (lobby, restaurants and bars) were beautiful and with an amazing vibe!
The room could have been a little bit more updated and we have requested a high floor but were put on a 3rd floor with a view to an internal hall but will totally repeat my experience in this hotel!
13 January 2025
Pleasant
The wow factor
Confusing breakfast as not a buffet option and staff seem to struggle if ordering off menu (beans on toast!). Standard hotel rooms with nothing special to justify the prices.
12 January 2025
Wonderful stay with exceptional staff.
Room. Birthday and anniversary items much appreciated. Breakfast. Evening meal in the Hansom.
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6 January 2025
Better training of your staff would have improved my experience, and your food is outstanding.
Your Food and Beverage manager was outstanding. I had a poor service experience with dinner and I just left and ate at an outside restaurant. He noticed I left and apologized, Invited me to join him for lunch the following day which I did. The food and hospitality was fabulous.
The power went out in my room so I was unable to charge my devices. I contacted reception and was told I would have to wait until the following morning when engineering was back. This was unacceptable so I went to reception and asked for someone to reset my power breaker. 30 minutes later someone came past and did just that and all was good.
5 January 2025
Great building worth seeing, but hotel experience not 5 star
The building was magnificent. The Gothic bar was very lovely, with great staff and food. Spacious bedroom and well-appointed bathroom. Lovely amazing large windows. Concierge Gordon was brilliant.
Nowhere to lounge as such. Our bedroom was spacious, but only had one armchair. Lovely bathroom, but tired around the edges. So did the bedroom, which had frayed carpets, scuffed walls and black marks on the bottom part of the bed. Christmas food at the Hansom was disappointingly poor. Breakfast was not impressive.
1 January 2025
Great location for the Eurostar and the Booking Office is a sight to behold. Staff are fantastic. But rooms don’t measur
The lobby and restaurant were fabulous and we enjoyed a lovely New Year’s Eve meal. Staff were friendly and efficient.
Breakfast was a little underwhelming with cold scrambled eggs sent back. The rooms are particularly ordinary, tired and outdated and are not befitting a hotel of this calibre or the hefty price.
1 January 2025
Very good
The location is great and the hotel is beautiful.
30 December 2024
Very good
Being right next to Kings Cross station was very convenient.
25 December 2024
Very good
good room with en-suite
room was cold with a very small amount of tea, milk and coffee.
23 December 2024
Very good
Brilliant location & staff
Rooms are very small for the price paid
22 December 2024
Good
Great location and good atmosphere
Checking in is always a bit chaotic and takes longer than it should. Having to queue. Tried to order two different types of wine at the bar, both had sold out...
21 December 2024
To short a stay
Nice place, lovely building & location
View was a brick wall
18 December 2024
Pleasant
A fabulous hotel
The breakfast was particularly poor Previous years it has been a wholesome buffet style offering with cooked food to order This year no buffet. The toast/bread was low cost type and the scrambled eggs were sloppy slush Very disappointed
17 December 2024
Very good
The breakfast on the last day was fantastic! The hotel is stunningly beautiful
The breakfast on our first day was cold, there was no condiments on the table, no small spoon given with the hot drinks, this is our second stay over the last few years and it seems its attention to detail is some what lacking. For the money I paid I expected better attention to detail
Hotel facilities
Food & Drink
- - Restaurant
- - Bar
- - Breakfast in the room
- - Special diet menus (on request)
- - Kid meals (additional charge)
- - Wine/champagne (additional charge)
- - Coffee house on site
General
- - Room service
- - Non-smoking rooms
- - Facilities for disabled guests
- - Family rooms
- - Lift
- - Safety deposit box
- - Car hire
- - Heating
- - Non-smoking throughout
- - Air conditioning
- - Pet basket
- - Pet bowls
Business facilities
- - Meeting/banquet facilities (additional charge)
- - Fax/photocopying (additional charge)
Reception services
- - 24-hour front desk
- - Express check-in/check-out
- - Luggage storage
- - Concierge service
- - Invoice provided
Activities
- - Sauna
- - Fitness centre
- - Spa and wellness centre (additional charge)
- - Massage (additional charge)
- - Cycling
- - Indoor pool
- - Indoor pool (all year)
- - Beauty Services
- - Facial treatments
- - Body treatments
- - Body scrub
- - Body wrap
- - Spa facilities
- - Steam room
- - Spa lounge/relaxation area
- - Spa/wellness packages
- - Back massage
- - Neck massage
- - Couples massage
- - Head massage
- - Hand massage
- - Full body massage
- - Fitness
- - Fitness/spa locker rooms
- - Tour or class about local culture (additional charge)
- - Live music/performance
- - Live sport events (broadcast)
- - Bicycle rental
Outdoors
- - Terrace
- - Outdoor furniture
Cleaning services
- - Laundry (additional charge)
- - Dry cleaning (additional charge)
- - Daily housekeeping
Parking
- - Accessible parking
Accessibility
- - Wheelchair accessible
Pool and wellness
- - Heated pool
- - Swimming pool
- - Swimming Pool
Miscellaneous
- - 24-hour security
- - Key card access
- - Smoke alarms
- - CCTV in common areas
- - CCTV outside property
- - Fire extinguishers
- - Breakfast takeaway containers
- - Delivered food is securely covered
- - Access to health care professionals
4 May 2025
Convenient location to train stations, staff excellent!