Mr & Mrs Smith

45 Park Lane

London, United Kingdom

45 Park Lane hotel in London leaves nothing to chance, wowing its visitors with a beefy Wolfgang Puck restaurant, a gallery’s worth of British art (including 16 panels by Damien Hirst), and glossy, glamorous Thierry W Despont-designed interiors. Then there’s the enviable address – guests get to wake up to leafy Hyde Park and moneyed Mayfair.  

Need to know

• Rooms 45, including 11 suites and one penthouse.
• Rates Double rooms from $675.02 (£445), excluding tax at 20 per cent.
  The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (£445) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Breakfast isn’t included (choose from cooked, Continental or à la carte, with dishes ranging from £5 to £25).
• Facilities Gym, library, stash of DVDs, cinema room (which can be booked for parties and events), free WiFi throughout. In rooms: iPad, iPod dock, flatscreen TV, CD/DVD player, minibar.
• Check-out 12 noon but flexible, subject to availability and a charge (half the room rate until 4pm).
• Children Little Smiths can come too. Cots are free, as are extra beds for 12-year-olds and under, babysitting with a nanny can be arranged (£10 an hour; minimum four hours), and the restaurant has a menu designed for junior palates (there's also room service).
• Also Take a couple of the hotel’s Brompton bicycles with you to the park (they’re free for guests to borrow).

Food and drink at 45 Park Lane

• Hotel restaurant

  Acclaimed Austrian chef Wolfgang Puck has enjoyed considerable success Stateside with his various ventures: Spago, Cut, Chinois and Trattoria de Lupo among them. His steak is the stuff of meaty dreams; his seafood is beyond reproach. Sample both here, in the hotel’s glittering, red-gold European outpost of Cut. Forget steakhouse decor: metallic-puff lights, glossy marble floors and heavy draped curtains set the tone.

• Dress code City sophisticate: we spotted three pairs of Louboutins in as many minutes. The men are slick and suited, the women frocked and coiffed.
• Top table Sit by the window to watch Londoners at your leisure; corner tables are more private.
• Last orders Wet your whistle at the bar between 12 noon and 1.30am. The restaurant is open until 11pm (10.30pm on Sundays and public holidays).
• Room service The impressive room service menu spans all three meals, is available 24 hours, and includes items such as oxtail bouillon with bone marrow dumplings, Wagyu six-ounce steak, and dark chocolate and whisky cake.
• Hotel bar

  The mood in Bar 45, a lipstick-red corner of the hotel, is relaxed: a pleasant burble of conversation rises against the understated pop and chill-out tracks. If you’re hungry/tipsy, order some light bites from the bar menu, which features fashionable fodder such as rough cuts, mini kobe sliders and Reuben sandwiches stuffed with house-smoked pastrami. The Bloody Marys are exemplary.

45 Park Lane 45 Park Lane, Mayfair, London, W1K 1PN