"Lodging at my club": Which London clubs have bedrooms?

A bedroom in the Travellers Club. (Photo credit: Dr. Lew Toulmin, whose website covers his stays across clubs worldwide.)

Some of the most common questions I get on London clubs are around bedrooms - typically “Where should I stay?” In some ways, I'm the worst person to ask - while I often stay in clubs on my travels, I've never yet needed to stay overnight in a London club (unless you count having fallen asleep in a comfortable armchair, and been indulged by a kind-hearted porter with a blanket).

Quality of experience is a deeply subjective thing, and I am not going to try to answer that here. But I might be able to shed some light on the availability of accommodation. For my new book, I did look into the facilities offered by each club, and ran the draft copy by each of them for comment and corrections. So I do have a more-or-less complete dataset of how many bedrooms (if any) each London club can offer. And I am happy to share it below, with paying subscribers, as a “thank you” for their support.

Accommodation is still a minority concern in London clubs - whereas some 51 clubs provide it, over 80 of them do not. Nevertheless, expectations are often high that a club should provide bedrooms; especially within the more traditional clubs, where it remains more common than not. (Indeed, even those dining clubs such as the Beefsteak and Pratt’s which do not see themselves as residential clubs can still provide some limited bedroom accommodation.) Those that do not have bedrooms themselves often make arrangements with nearby hotels.