London second in world’s dirtiest hotels survey

Despite being a world-leading destination, London came high up on the list of dirtiest hotels.

London Evening Standard/London

Hotels in London have been named among the dirtiest in the world, according to a recent survey.

London hotels came second in the list of the dirtiest capitals in the world, beaten only by Rio de Janeiro in the Hotel.info poll.

The leading holiday booking website surveyed 6mn customers, with Tokyo and Warsaw coming out top of the world’s cleanest hotels.

Website users were asked to score hotels in respective cities out of ten, with London achieving just a 7.52 average, to Tokyo’s winning score of 8.93.

Sheffield came highest out of all UK cities, with an overall ranking of 8.15, with hoteliers in Liverpool (8.12) and Bristol (8.10) coming in second and third on the cleanliness scale.

European city destination made up eight of the top 10 dirtiest, with Oslo, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Paris, Athens, Brussels and Kiev all getting notably low scores.