Need to know

Rooms

60, including 10 suites.

Rates

£245–£2,500, excluding breakfast (£20 for Continental) and tax.

Check-out

Midday, but possibly later, if availability permits. Check-in, 3pm.

Facilities

In-room spa and beauty treatments, free WiFi throughout, valet parking (£55 a day). In rooms: flatscreen TV, VDA multimedia system with music and videos, iPod dock, minibar, free bottled water, Hpnos beds, L’Occitane toiletries.

Children

Welcome; baby cots and extra beds for under-12s are provided free. Andaman restaurant has a kids’ menu, and babysitting can be arranged (minimum four hours) with three days' notice.

Also

The hotel has an impressive stash of 20th-century portraiture, including the 1920s–50s Rosenstein Collection, which adorns its public spaces and suites.

In the know

Our favourite rooms

The huge sixth-floor Terrace Suite is the ultimate London crashpad: vast, with an open fireplace and a large roof terrace overlooking the rooftops of St James. Even more decadence-drippingly exclusive, the St James and Westminster Suites (which can combine to create the Penthouse) are accessed via their own private lift. More modest – but still featuring the same sumptuous silk wallpapers, polished stone bathrooms and hi-tech gadgetry – are the Executive Rooms – ask for one with a Jacuzzi or a balcony.

Packing tips

Don’t forget your iPod for the in-room docking station. Mr Smith should definitely bring an extra bag (or money to buy one) – the gentlemen’s tailoring options in Mayfair are unparalleled in London.

Also

Don’t miss the hotel’s cocktail hour, not just for the delicious concoctions on offer in the bar, but also for the ever-changing popcorn flavour of the day.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant

St James’s haute-cuisine restaurant, Seven Park Place, spreads itself over a few small and simple rooms around the bar area, leant a fresh feel by the lemon-yellow banquettes and black and cream slipper chairs. In addition to the jus and foams of the dinner selection, there’s an all-day bar menu of more low-key gastro-pub dishes in William's Bar & Bistro.

Dress code

Modern Mayfair man, poised Piccadilly princess.

Top table

For privacy, secure the spot in the alcove by the window.

Last orders

Dinner is served until 10pm, lunch from midday to 2pm and breakfast from 7am to 10.30am.

Room service

A menu of salads, soups and pasta is available 24 hours a day.

Hotel bar

With walls lined with contemporary artworks and a smart palette of gold, lemon and blue hues, St James’s hotel bar is a discreet champagne-supping spot for West London’s smart set. Every Thursday, a DJ brings his decks and injects some more buzz into the atmosphere. The club area is a suitably wood-panelled space; ideal for thumbing through the papers or pawing through a novel.

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St James's Hotel & Club

7–8 Park Place, London