Baglioni Hotel

London, United Kingdom

• Style Italian elegance
• Setting Parkside Kensington

The Baglioni Hotel is housed in a Georgian building which, although respectable and impeccable, doesn’t allude to the over-the-top grandeur that awaits inside. Children are made welcome, too.

The Zetter

London, United Kingdom

• Style Slick warehouse conversion
• Setting Off-centre Clerkenwell

The Zetter hotel is all about cutting-edge design, with the clever modern contrasts you’d expect from an establishment embodying London’s eastside renaissance.

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Soho Hotel

London, United Kingdom

• Style Modern British wit
• Setting Central secrecy

Soho Hotel is an establishment where the watering hole and eatery have independent allure; local media folk swap editing suites and photo studios for drinks at the bar.

Blakes Hotel

London, United Kingdom

• Style Orient excess
• Setting Secluded SW7

Pure modern decadence. Each room at Anouska Hempel's South Ken boutique pad, Blakes Hotel, has its own style, but all are inspired by far-flung lands: Russia, India, Turkey…

Covent Garden Hotel

London, United Kingdom

• Style Low-key London luxury
• Setting West End world

The wonderful thing about Covent Garden Hotel is that while it caters for the well-heeled, it also works hard at a genuinely laid-back, home-from-home atmosphere.

Hazlitt's

London, United Kingdom

• Style Discreet, distinctive, historic
• Setting Insiders' Soho

From the creaky stairs up to a wonky landing at the top, its tilt the result of 300 years of slowly shifting woodwork, Hazlitt’s offers comfort with an air of quirky elegance.

• Smith Vintage

The Rockwell

London, United Kingdom

• Style English eccentric updated
• Setting An amble from Earl's Court

The Victorian grandeur and refined style of The Rockwell boutique hotel stands out among the townhouses of hotel-packed Earls' Court.

Bingham

London, United Kingdom

• Style Trendy townhouse
• Setting Richmond riverside

Droplet chandeliers, mushroom hues, bespoke artworks – Bingham hotel and restaurant on the southwest London riverside, is a stylish glint in Richmond's eye.

High Road House

London, United Kingdom

• Style Cool members’ club outpost
• Setting Boulevard in the ’burbs

High Road House, the West London outpost of Nick Jones' oh-so-cool Soho House members' club combines relaxed hangout and city retreat with buzzy bar and brilliant brasserie, all decked out in über-designer Ilse Crawford's trademark comfy but modern colour

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Haymarket Hotel

London, United Kingdom

• Style Witty British bolthole
• Setting Theatreland thoroughfare

Country-house charm meets London sophistication at this central boutique hotel right on Piccadilly Circus. Kit Kemp's quirky interiors and an eye-popping indoor pool turn Haymarket Hotel into a lavish and relaxing retreat.

The Metropolitan London

London, United Kingdom

• Style Heights of fashion
• Setting Pride of park-side Mayfair

Standing tall in Park Lane, the blue-windowed Metropolitan London hotel doesn’t just attract big names – it’s already full of them: Nobu, Como Shambhala, the sultry burgundy Met Bar…

Brown's Hotel

London, United Kingdom

• Style Understated elegance
• Setting Magnificent Mayfair

A bastion of Victorian glamour with a stylish modern sheen, Brown’s Hotel, London has been a byword for boutique brilliance for nearly two centuries.

Hotel Tamara

London, United Kingdom

• Style Test Style
• Setting Test Setting

This is a test hotel

Charlotte Street Hotel

London, United Kingdom

• Style Arty-smarty English eccentric
• Setting Bang-central Bloomsbury

Taking the Bloomsbury Set for its inspiration, the Charlotte Street Hotel in central London brings together fine art and a fresh colour palette to create the perfect city luxury stay.

Number Sixteen

London, United Kingdom

• Style Fun, fresh townhouse
• Setting Smart South Ken side street

The bright, feminine rooms at this well-groomed Kensington hideaway are as refreshing and tasty as a cup of Earl Grey on a spring morning. A wonderful location makes this Number Sixteen a great base for shopping weekends or culture trips.

Knightsbridge Hotel

London, United Kingdom

• Style Flamboyant fabrics, tactile textures
• Setting A hop from Harrods

A medley of luxuriant colour, statement furniture and unusual art greets guests stepping into the lobby of Knightsbridge Hotel, Kit Kemp’s characteristically whimsical take on the townhouse boutique bed and breakfast.

St James's Hotel & Club

London, United Kingdom

• Style Rejuvenated gentleman’s club
• Setting Moments from Mayfair

Tucked away in a quiet cul de sac beside Green Park, the red and white brick façade of St James’s Hotel hides the grown-up gents-club glamour within.

Rough Luxe

London, United Kingdom

• Style Art-inspired shabby-chic
• Setting Crux of King’s Cross

Neither the name nor the photos can adequately prepare you for Rough Luxe; it's a genuine one-of-a-kind, with cracked and peeling paint and paper sharing wall-space with visually arresting art.

Sanderson

London, United Kingdom

• Style Starck contrasts, statement interiors
• Setting Off-the-beaten-track Fitzrovia

One of the original London boutique hotels, the Sanderson is one of the finest examples of Ian Schrager and Philippe Starck’s fun, fashion-influenced take on design.

San Domenico House

London, United Kingdom

• Style Restrained Italian extravagance
• Setting Steps from Sloane Square

Created from two five-storey, red-brick Chelsea townhouses, family-owned boutique hotel San Domenico House is a little piece of Italy in West London. It’s warm, welcoming and extremely inviting.

• Smith Vintage

The Kensington Hotel London

London, United Kingdom

• Style Regal and ravishing
• Setting Sumptuous South Ken

Situated in beautiful townhouse, just off London’s Old Brompton Road, the Kensington Hotel is a relaxing spot in which to escape the bustle of SW7’s museum land. It ticks all the right fashion-magazine boxes and it’s incredibly spacious – even the

No.5 Maddox Street

London, United Kingdom

• Style Fit-for-a-film-star pieds-à-terre
• Setting Mayfair’s Maddox Street

No.5 Maddox Street’s suites offer an alternative luxury hotel experience in one of London’s most prestigious neighbourhoods. The one-, two-, and three-bed hi-tech studios are a surprisingly peaceful retreat near buzzing Soho.

Dean Street Townhouse

London, United Kingdom

• Style Art-house hideaway
• Setting Sociable, sexy Soho

Once home to Hogarth, Dean Street Townhouse, Soho, has all the drama and decadence of the painter’s pictures, along with cosmopolitan cool and a British brasserie.

The Arch London

London, United Kingdom

• Style Technological townhouse
• Setting Moments from Marble Arch

The Arch Hotel, London is a grand Georgian pad filled with all-mod-cons modernity in the heart of the West End.

York & Albany

London, United Kingdom

• Style Best of British
• Setting Right by Regent’s Park

If name-dropping were a crime, York & Albany hotel would be in trouble, with its John Nash-designed building, Russell Sage interiors and Gordon Ramsay’s culinary captaincy.

Shoreditch Rooms

London, United Kingdom

• Style Cool crash-pad club
• Setting Behind Brick Lane

Shoreditch Rooms at Shoreditch House is a converted warehouse wonder in London’s gentrified East End, with a pool on the roof and a bowling lane inside.

The Connaught

London, United Kingdom

• Style Hip, with history
• Setting Mayfair’s Mount Street

The Connaught hotel, London was bound to be stately and stylish; it’s more than 100 years old, set in monied Mayfair and has the royal stamp of approval.

Town Hall Hotel & Apartments

London, United Kingdom

• Style Reinvented vintage cool
• Setting Bohemian Bethnal Green

Town Hall Hotel & Apartments is a former council building made good, with striking modern features alongside the grand old ones.

The Rookery

London, United Kingdom

• Style Period drama
• Setting Clerkenwell’s gastronomic heart

The Rookery hotel is inspired by 18th-century London life, with rooms named after a motley Clerkenwell crew (from prostitutes to preachers), eccentric interiors, and historic swagger.

St John Hotel

London, United Kingdom

• Style All in good taste
• Setting Lively Chinatown corner

At the city-central St John Hotel, stripped-back interiors and fuss-free rooms put the emphasis firmly on the food, which is both gutsy (literally) and gorgeous.

45 Park Lane

London, United Kingdom

• Style Deco and debonair
• Setting Majestic Mayfair

45 Park Lane in London leaves nothing to chance, wowing its guests with a beefy Wolfgang Puck restaurant, a gallery’s worth of British art, and Thierry W. Despont-designed interiors. Then there’s the location: leafy Hyde Park and moneyed Mayfair.