The Verdict
For business travellers attending events at the ICC or Symphony Hall who need a reliable night's sleep without earplugs, the Leonardo Royal Hotel Birmingham is the clearest answer at the three-star-plus price point. Its corner position on Berkley Street puts the ICC within minutes on foot, the tram stops outside, and unlike the hotels sitting directly on the Broad Street strip, there is enough building mass between you and the worst of the late-night noise to make early starts survivable.
For budget travellers who do not need to drive, Premier Inn Birmingham City Centre Bridge Street is the better of the two Premier Inns on this page. The parking situation rules it out entirely for drivers, but on foot or by tram it delivers the same Broad Street access as anything nearby, with a quieter street address and canal towpath access two minutes from the door.
For anyone whose entire purpose in coming to Birmingham is the nightlife itself, the Hampton by Hilton Birmingham Broad Street is the honest pick. It is loud, Snobs nightclub is directly adjacent, and light sleepers will suffer. But for a group arriving late, leaving late, and treating the room as somewhere to collapse between venues, no other hotel on this page puts you more immediately in the centre of that world. The Premier Inn Birmingham City Centre Broad Street on Essington Street is worth noting as a quieter fallback for the same budget, but it sits further from the action than its name implies.