Why you should experience Citadines Trafalgar Square London in London, England.
Citadines Trafalgar Square London is a cosmopolitan serviced residence where Charing Cross's grand-hotel heritage, imperial-era architecture, theatrical culture and metropolitan mobility converge along one of Victorian London's most ambitious new avenues.
Set along Northumberland Avenue near Whitehall Place and just steps from Trafalgar Square, the property occupies a 1930s building on a thoroughfare created after Northumberland House, the London residence of the Percy family, was purchased by the Metropolitan Board of Works and demolished in 1874. The avenue quickly became a showcase for grand hospitality, with F. amp; H. Francis and James Ebenezer Saunders designing the 500-room Grand Hotel, Frederick Gordon developing the Hotel Metropole and Isaacs and Florence creating the 500-room Hotel Victoria within little more than a decade. Antonio Salviati mosaics decorated the Grand Hotel, while the Hotel Victoria arrived with electric lighting during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee year and the Metropole attracted Prince Albert Edward, later Edward VII, to its Royal Suite. The result is a residence where the Percy family, Frederick Gordon, Antonio Salviati and three immense Victorian hotels give Charing Cross a hospitality lineage reaching far beyond the contemporary aparthotel.
What you should know about Citadines Trafalgar Square London.
Citadines Trafalgar Square London is best known for opening as Citadines' London flagship in 1998 inside a 1930s building before becoming part of The Ascott Limited through Ascott's complete acquisition of the Citadines chain in 2004 and undergoing a more than £6 million transformation into Citadines Prestige Trafalgar Square London in 2012. BuckleyGrayYeoman directed the 2012 design concept during a nine-month comprehensive renovation that reworked the apartments and public spaces, while the residence retained 187 units and became the third Citadines Prestige property in London and sixth in Europe. The transformation immediately preceded the property winning England's Leading Serviced Apartments at the 2013 World Travel Awards, a distinction it captured again in 2024 after more than a decade of nominations in the category. CapitaLand Ascott Trust continues to hold the freehold property within its London portfolio, while its 2025 annual report records 187 units and places Citadines Trafalgar Square London among five United Kingdom properties totaling 830 units. The sequence from the 1998 debut through Ascott's 2004 Citadines acquisition, BuckleyGrayYeoman's £6 million redesign and World Travel Awards victories in 2013 and 2024 gives the property a substantial institutional history within the evolution of serviced residences in Central London.
CapitaLand provides the larger corporate lineage behind the residence through The Ascott Limited, whose serviced-residence history began in Singapore in 1984 before Citadines joined its portfolio two decades later and expanded the group's European presence. Ascott Residence Trust completed the apartment and lobby refurbishment at Trafalgar Square during the first quarter of 2012, placing the project within a wider transformation program that also encompassed Citadines properties in South Kensington, Holborn-Covent Garden, Paris and other European cities. World Travel Awards subsequently recognized Citadines itself as Europe's Leading Serviced Apartment Brand and England's Leading Serviced Apartment Brand in 2024 while separately awarding the Trafalgar Square property England's Leading Serviced Apartments, creating recognition at both brand and individual-property level. The Ascott Limited, CapitaLand, BuckleyGrayYeoman and World Travel Awards form a coherent lineage around Citadines Trafalgar Square London, connecting a French-originated aparthotel brand with Singaporean hospitality ownership, British design and more than a quarter-century of operation on Northumberland Avenue.
How to fold Citadines Trafalgar Square London into your trip.
Citadines Trafalgar Square London works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing Stuart artistic power, Enlightenment intellectual life and Victorian design through the streets between Whitehall and Covent Garden.
Begin at Banqueting House, where Inigo Jones completed his revolutionary classical building for James I in 1622 before Charles I commissioned Peter Paul Rubens's immense nine-canvas ceiling in 1629, a 225-square-meter composition completed in 1634 and installed in 1636 that remains the largest surviving Rubens work still occupying its original European setting. Continue to Benjamin Franklin House, the circa-1730 townhouse at 36 Craven Street where Benjamin Franklin lived for nearly sixteen years between 1757 and 1775 while working as scientist, inventor, philosopher and colonial diplomat, leaving London with the world's only surviving Franklin residence. Conclude at London Transport Museum, occupying William Rogers of Cubitts' Grade II-listed 1871-72 Covent Garden Flower Market, an iron-and-glass structure expanded in 1884-86 before the flower trade departed and the transport collection opened there in 1980. The progression moves from Jones and Rubens's Stuart court through Franklin's eighteenth-century London into Rogers's architecture for Victorian commerce, revealing four centuries of artistic, intellectual and metropolitan development surrounding Citadines Trafalgar Square London.
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