Each level at the Wake Up London hostel is color coded for easy navigation regardless of inebriation level -- as the hostel posts on its website: "We've seen your sort before." The pink-coded basement houses the bar, kitchen, laundry, luggage storage, a coin operated espresso machine and a dining room / lounge with TV and magazines, as well as bedrooms and public toilets. (A second lounge exists upstairs, with another TV, books and comfy couches.)
Washers and dryers take tokens available at a pound apiece from the upstairs front desk (one token per load) -- four of the six machines didn't work during my visit, providing me an excellent excuse to retreat to the hostel's Hiccup bar, through which one must pass to reach the laundry room, and kick back with an au pair from Ontario who was living at the hostel and a med student from San Diego who was heading home.