Front door to London's Piccadilly Backpackers.
Image: GrrlScientist 6 September 2008 [larger view].
For those of you coming to London who might be searching for a cheap and livable place to crash, there is a hostel in Piccadilly Circus called Piccadilly Backpackers. That's where I am staying (in a coed dorm -- even though they advertize female-only dorms, they don't follow that in my experience). I think this is a great hostel: affordable, quiet, no/little theft, safe and impressively clean.
A typical dorm room in the Piccadilly Backpackers hostel (this was my room, which was an eight-…