Mr & Mrs Smith

The Soho Hotel

London, United Kingdom

Sister to the Covent Garden Hotel, Soho hotel is a bubble of cool calm, and therefore it's also a surprisingly child-friendly hotel. Veer off Wardour Street and head towards a twinkly-lit porch to find a 10-foot porcelain Botero cat sculpture, oversized plant pots and a clash of driftwood and neon-tinted Perspex – a refreshing alternative to the marble and brass lobbies of most hotels in this postcode.

Need to know

• Rooms 91.
• Rates Double rooms from $375.79 (£240), excluding tax at 20 per cent.
  Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (£240), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
• More details Rates exclude breakfast (£20 for a full English).
• Facilities High-speed internet access, cinema, CD/DVD player, flatscreen TV, Frette linen, iPod dock, Miller Harris bath products, valet service.
• Check-out Midday.
• Children Families are welcomed. More...

Food and drink at The Soho Hotel

• Hotel restaurant Refuel offers modern international cuisine for a full-on banquet, or cosmopolitan food platters to pick at with your drinks. Settle in for some afternoon tea (which can also be taken in the private drawing room or library).
• Dress code Soho sophisticates.
• Top table By the rack of plants that separates the restaurant from the bar.
• Last orders 11pm.
• Room service An extensive 24-hour menu including tapas-style snacks, gluten-free options and hefty organic meats from a farm in Hampshire if you're after something substantial (as well as a selection of sundaes for afterwards).
• Hotel bar Refuel is great for pre or after dinner drinks.

The Soho Hotel 4 Richmond Mews, London, W1D 3DH