The Great Eastern Hotel is located approximately one mile from the Tower of London and Tower Bridge and 15 miles from London Heathrow Airport. Near Liverpool Street Station and the financial district, this location is also two miles from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, three miles from Big Ben and Saint Paul's Cathedral, four miles from Buckingham Palace and Hyde Park, and five miles from Knightsbridge and Harrods. Great Eastern Hotel opened in 1879 as one of London's great railway hotels; the building has a restored Victorian facade and has added six-story atrium.
Hotel amenities include the four restaurants, three bars, health club (located in a former Masonic temple), and spa services. Aurora (restaurant and bar) has a Victorian stained-glass domed roof and serves seafood, Terminus is a brasserie with a stool-lined granite bar and open kitchen, George specializes in steak-and-kidney pie and roast beef sandwiches, Fishmarket Restaurant has seafood and the Fishmarket Champagne Bar, and Miyabi is a Japanese restaurant overlooking Liverpool Street. The hotel also offers evening room service, turndown service, a concierge, valet laundry service, a video library, bell service, currency exchange, and babysitting.
All rooms feature high-speed Internet access, ergonomic workstations, CD and DVD players, cable TV, minibars, bathrobes, hairdryers, safes, free weekday newspapers, voicemail, and individual climate control.