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Fermi #58 · Question 2

How many hotel rooms are there in London?

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Answer & explanation

The official answer, with Fermi’s reasoning step by step.

Answer & explanation

Official answer

145,984

hotel rooms

How to estimate it

Fermi’s official “Napkin math”

There's no single number to grab here, so build it up. Guess how many hotels London has, maybe 1,500. Multiply by an average size, call it 100 rooms each.

Hotels in London
~1,500
Average rooms per hotel
~100
1,500 × 100
≈ 150,000

Rounded assumptions may give a slightly different estimate. The official answer above is the game’s reference value.

Source calculation & reference
Hotels in London (Sept 2024)
1,570
Average rooms per hotel
≈ 93
1,570 × 93
≈ 145,984

Reference cited by Fermi: HVS Research, "London Market Pulse 2024"

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