Why you should experience DoubleTree London Angel Kings Cross in London, England.
DoubleTree London Angel Kings Cross is a connected contemporary hotel where Islington's performance culture, railway energy, independent character and North London sociability converge along the historic axis between Angel and King's Cross.
Set along Pentonville Road near Liverpool Road and just steps from Angel Station, the hotel occupies 60 Pentonville Road on ground where an earlier row of buildings at Nos. 60-66 still stood in 1976 before redevelopment created the substantially larger hospitality address seen today. Its position places the property between two distinct London worlds, with Upper Street and Angel carrying Islington's restaurant and theater culture eastward while King's Cross and St. Pancras connect the neighborhood with national and continental rail networks to the west. Sadler's Wells sits 0.3 miles away, extending the hotel's immediate cultural orbit into a performance institution whose history on the same Islington site reaches 1683 and whose artistic descendants include The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and English National Opera. The result is a hotel where Pentonville Road, Angel, King's Cross and Sadler's Wells make movement and performance central to the character of this particular Islington address.
What you should know about DoubleTree London Angel Kings Cross.
DoubleTree London Angel Kings Cross is best known for joining DoubleTree by Hilton in August 2014 after a multimillion-pound transformation of the former Jurys Inn London Islington, becoming the brand's tenth London property and simultaneously marking DoubleTree by Hilton's 10,000th room in Europe. The conversion initially opened with 229 refurbished bedrooms before an October 2014 expansion added 143 more, including 66 Deluxe rooms, 43 Executive rooms and 34 standard rooms, taking the property to 372 rooms under a franchise agreement with Jurys Inn. designsquared authored the redesigned ground-floor lobby and lounge, while general manager Thomas Doyle oversaw an opening program that introduced an executive lounge, fitness suite and Bar60, a London gin bar built around signature cocktails. Hilton Worldwide global head John Greenleaf placed the opening within a particularly rapid period of DoubleTree expansion, noting that a brand with no United Kingdom presence in 2007 had reached nearly 25 British properties by 2014, including ten around London. The Jurys Inn conversion, designsquared interiors, Thomas Doyle leadership, 372-room expansion and milestone status within DoubleTree's European growth established the hotel as a substantial expression of Hilton's early twenty-first-century expansion in London.
Klarent Hospitality now carries the property into another architectural chapter after Islington approved a sixth-floor rooftop extension in January 2026 adding 29 bedrooms to the existing hotel. The approved scheme extends the building upward while partially converting the existing plant-room level and introducing a new roof level, representing the most consequential physical expansion since the 143-room addition that accompanied the DoubleTree conversion. Angel Grill has meanwhile replaced the opening-era restaurant character with a contemporary grill concept centered on flame-grilled steaks and seafood, while Hilton continues operating the property within DoubleTree by Hilton and the Hilton Honors network. Together, Klarent Hospitality, DoubleTree by Hilton, Hilton Honors and the continuing evolution of the 2014 conversion show a hotel still developing more than a decade after the former Jurys Inn became one of DoubleTree's defining early London expansion projects.
How to fold DoubleTree London Angel Kings Cross into your trip.
DoubleTree London Angel Kings Cross works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing dance history, Italian modernism and Victorian food commerce through Islington and neighboring King's Cross.
Begin at Sadler's Wells Theatre, where Richard Sadler's discovery of a mineral spring in 1683 began more than three centuries of performance history before Lilian Baylis and Ninette de Valois made the institution crucial to British ballet, and the sixth theater on the site opened in October 1998 with a 1,500-seat auditorium and a program featuring Rambert. Continue to Estorick Collection, where Eric Estorick's collection of more than 120 works by artists including Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Giorgio de Chirico, Amedeo Modigliani and Giorgio Morandi opened publicly at Northampton Lodge on January 28, 1998, creating Britain's only collection devoted specifically to modern Italian art. Conclude at London Canal Museum, occupying Carlo Gatti's 1862-63 former ice warehouse above two enormous brick-lined wells measuring 30 feet across and 42 feet deep, where natural ice imported from Norway was stored for London's food and catering trades before mechanical refrigeration displaced the operation. The progression moves from Baylis and de Valois's culture of dance through Estorick's concentration of Italian modernism into Gatti's extraordinary Victorian ice enterprise, revealing the artistic and entrepreneurial histories connecting Angel with King's Cross.
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