Left Luggage Facilities & Bag Storage Lockers in London

Train station lockers

You can leave your luggage at big National Rail train stations like Euston, King’s Cross, Liverpool Street, Victoria and Waterloo - but not underground stations.

Victoria Coach Station

You can leave your luggage at Victoria coach station near gate 0, inside the ticket office. The coach station is about a 10-minute walk from the train station.

Security is tight and all of your items will be passed through detection equipment. You may also be asked to open your bag for physical inspection.

Opening hours are 8.30 AM to 10 PM.

Prices start at £5 per bag for 0-3 hours, £7.50 per bag for 3-6 hours, £10 per bag for 6-24 hours, and then another £6 per bag for every 24 hours after that.

Tourist attraction cloakrooms

You can leave your luggage in the cloakroom of some of London’s most popular tourist attractions, including many of the big museums and art galleries.

Some of the attractions charge a small fee whilst others ask for a voluntary donation, but remember that you’ll have to pick them up by closing time. They’re not the kind of places where you can leave them overnight. They might also turn around and say no if you try and hand over anything larger than a standard airline carry-on size bag.

• British Museum (Bloomsbury) – no suitcases with wheels, no bags larger than 40x40x50cm, no bags heavier than 8kg. Prices start at £2.50 per bag
• Imperial War Museum (Lambeth) – there’s a £1 deposit for their small lockers measuring 45x40x60cm
• London Zoo (Primrose Hill) – small lockers cost £1 per hour or £5 per day. Large lockers cost £2 per hour or £10 per day
• Museum of London (Barbican) – there’s a fee of £1 for lockers measuring up to 43x37x24cm
• National Gallery (Trafalgar Square) – no bags larger than 40x25x25cm. Prices start at £1.50 per bag
• Natural History Museum (South Kensington) – prices range from £2 to £7 depending on the size of the item
• Science Museum (South Kensington) – they only accept small bags (no suitcases), and charge £2 per item
• Tate Britain (Millbank) – there’s a cloakroom on the lower floor, and they suggest a donation of £4
• Tate Modern (Bankside) – the main cloakroom is on level 0, but there are also some small (42x27x43cm) and large lockers (44x27x87cm) in the Blavatnik building. They request a donation of £4
• Victoria & Albert Museum (South Kensington) – no bags larger than 56x45x25cm. Prices range from £1 to £5 depending on the size of the item

Excess Baggage Company

Excess Baggage Company have storage lockers at airports and big National Rail stations.

Locker security is reassuringly tight with x-ray machines and CCTV, and their shops also provide services like bag wrapping and courier delivery to your destination.

• Gatwick airport (north) – 6 AM to 6 PM
• Heathrow airport (arrivals) – 5 AM to 11 PM
• Stansted airport – 7 AM to 7 PM
• Charing Cross station – 8 AM to 9 PM
• Euston station – 8 AM to 9 PM
• King’s Cross station – 8 AM to 9 PM
• Liverpool Street station – 8 AM to 9 PM
• London Bridge station – 8 AM to 9 PM
• Paddington station – 8 AM to 9 PM
• Victoria station – 8 AM to 9 PM
• Waterloo station – 8 AM to 9 PM

You need to ask for a quote on their website to be certain of the price, but a typical cost is £6 per bag for 0–3 hours, £12.50 per bag for 3-24 hours, and £7.50 per bag per 24 hours.

Luggage Hero

Luggage Hero works with over 120 partner hotels and shops and hotels across the capital, allowing you to leave your luggage with the one that’s closest to you.

The areas they cover include Camden, King’s Cross station, Liverpool Street station, Shoreditch, Soho, Southbank, Victoria station and Waterloo.

Just visit their website and pick a location, then pay a few quid which can be as low as £1 per hour per bag (up to a maximum of £5 per day). They will also provide a security seal and insure the contents of your bag up to the value of £2,200.

Safestore

If you’re planning to store your bags for more than a few days then it might work out cheaper to rent a locker instead. Safestore provide self-storage facilities that charge by the square foot/metre and are large enough to hold bicycles and packing boxes.

The smallest locker you can rent is about the same size as a car boot and measures 10 sq feet (0.9 sq metres), which should be large enough to hold four suitcases.

They have offices in Battersea, Bermondsey, Camden, Chelsea, Earl’s Court, Euston, King’s Cross, Notting Hill, Paddington and St. John’s Wood.

Prices start at £11 per locker per week.

Stasher

Stasher works with hundreds of hotels, shops and businesses across the capital to provide bag storage locations all over town (called stashpoints). Their idea is that you can always find a locker within ten minutes walk.

Prices are generally a lot cheaper then storing them at an airport or train station, and can be as low as £5 a day depending on the location.

Nannybag

NannyBag has partnered with over 2,500 local shops and hotels all across London to allow travellers to deposit their luggage in the one that’s most convenient for them.

All you have to do is visit their website and select the location closest to you, tell them how many pieces of luggage you want to store, and then drop off your belongings where you’ll be provided with a security seal.

The cost is £6 per item, per day, and they will also insure your contents up to the value of £1,500.