Central TowerPortsoken, City of London

New Drum Street, E1 7BQ;E1 7BU · nearest station Aldgate East Tube Station (building and tunnels) (36 m) · data as of 19 Jun 2026

125: active short-letsreviewed in the last 12 months
85%: are entire homes106 homes, 18 private rooms
£263: median nightly pricefrom 97 listed prices
55: nights booked a yearmedian, estimated
£14,000: yearly revenue per listingmedian, estimated
38%: run by large operatorshosts with 10+ London listings

Bedroom mix

1 bed 69%
2 bed 20%
3 bed 7%
4+ bed 4%

Average 1.5 bedrooms — roughly 1.5 linen sets per changeover.

Guest reviews per month (proxy for stays)

Jun 2025 – May 2026. Busiest: August 2025; quietest: January 2026.

What it means for linen

~70 changeovers a week within 250 m

Every checkout is a bed to strip and a set to replace. Around Central Tower that adds up to an estimated 3,655 changeovers a year — about 102 sets of bed linen a week.

3,655: changeovers a year, est.
~102: linen sets a week, est.

Nearby buildings on the E1 round

Building	Street	Distance	Short-lets within 250 m
Clayton Hotel	New Drum Street	50 m	123
Leman Locke	Leman Street	90 m	118
E1 Cycles	Commercial Street	110 m	131
The Relay Building	Whitechapel High Street	120 m	116
The Gate	White Church Lane	130 m	130

LPLAUNDRY

Central Tower · 19 Jun 2026

What guests say about linen nearby

32 of 1,563 guest reviews here in the last 12 months mention sheets, towels or linen; about 7 of those point to a problem.

“Despite booking for 3 people, the extra bed (couch) was not prepared as a bed, but we luckily found enough beddings, towels & sheets.”Airbnb guest near Central Tower · June 2025

“Good, just kinda dusty and when i arrived there's still sheet inside of the black plastic bag in front of the door.”Airbnb guest near Central Tower · May 2026

“I had made the reservation for 3 people, but we were only provided towels for 2 people.”Airbnb guest near Central Tower · July 2025

Reviews of local short-lets, not of LPLaundry. Names removed.

How LPLaundry keeps short-let linen moving

Aldgate East Tube Station (building and tunnels) is 36 m away — short stays, back to backCheckout at 10, check-in at 3, most days of the week. The clean set is in the flat before the guest has left.
38% of lets here are run by operatorsRun more than one flat near Central Tower? They go on one account — one invoice, one collection round across City of London, one person to call.
August is the busy month hereReviews around Central Tower peak in August and bottom out in January. We raise your spare sets before the run-up, so the week you are fullest is not the week you run out.
Grey linen in guest photosWashed at our own Wembley plant, 9.7 miles from Central Tower — the E1 round collects from New Drum Street and the 8 named buildings around it — not in a domestic machine, and bagged by set ready to use.

Airbnb laundry near Central Tower

Linen hire and changeover laundry, collected and delivered 7 days on the E1 round. No minimum order.

020 4621 9097 lplaundry.com · get a quote online

Sources and method. Short-let figures: ,[object Object],, London snapshot 19 Jun 2026, licensed ,[object Object],. Active means at least one review in the previous 12 months. Building name, address and nearest station: © ,[object Object],, licensed ,[object Object],. All figures describe listings within 250 m of the building. They say nothing about any flat in Central Tower itself. Medians are shown only when at least 10 listings report the value. Prices above £2000 a night are excluded as outliers. The 90-night limit on short lets in Greater London is the ,[object Object],, not our interpretation of it. Rebuilt each time Inside Airbnb publishes a new London snapshot, about every three months. Short-let research, figures and method: Hassam Rafkey, Short-Let Research & Data Consultant and independent consultant to LPLaundry (15 years in Airbnb and short-let research). LPLaundry is a trading name of HHFA Group Services Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 16234834. Registered office: 1B Chantry Place, Harrow HA3 6NY. Spotted a figure that looks wrong? ,[object Object], and we will check it against the source and correct it.

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