Mr & Mrs Smith

Charlotte Street Hotel

London, United Kingdom

The Charlotte Street Hotel epitomises London living: an elegant bar, intimate bistro, smart private cinema, comfortable rooms with low-key luxe décor – and that all-important quiet-yet-central location. Taking the Bloomsbury Set for its inspiration, this London boutique hotel brings together fine art and a fresh colour palette to create the perfect city luxury stay.

Need to know

• Rooms 52, including 13 suites.
• Rates Double rooms from $371.85 (£246), 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 (£246) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Rates exclude breakfast. Continental breakfast, £16.50; full English, £19. Other choices, from £4.
• Facilities Private screening room, library, drawing room, gym, library, free WiFi throughout, laundry, valet parking. In rooms: flatscreen TV, DVD/CD player, iPod dock, Tivoli radio, minibar, Frette bedlinen, Miller Harris toiletries.
• Check-out 11am, but flexible subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 2pm.
• Children Welcome. Most rooms can accommodate a crib (free) and Deluxe Rooms and above can fit an extra bed (£48 a night). Nannies available, from £8 an hour. More...
• Also Smoking rooms are available, however smoking is not permitted anywhere else in the property. Pets unfortunately cannot be accommodated. Preloaded iPods are available to borrow.
• Hotel closed Never.

Food and drink at Charlotte Street Hotel

• Hotel restaurant The Oscar (named for the award-winning films screened in the adjacent private cinema) is Charlotte Street Hotel’s bold, bright bistro restaurant; settle in for Modern British classics such as grilled Dover sole and roast chicken with savoy cabbage, pancetta and chestnuts. Oscar also gives great breakfast.
• Dress code Think Bloomsbury artist and affect an air of casual indifference (while wearing your favourite city-chic outfit, of course).
• Top table Grab a table for two on the tapestry-print banquette beside the bar – one of you gets to admire the cinematically colourful 1910-style mural; the other gets a wide-angle view of the whole restaurant and its open kitchen.
• Last orders Oscar is open for breakfast (7am–11am), lunch (noon–3pm) and dinner (5pm–11pm); last drinks are mixed at midnight. After that, adjourn to the art-filled drawing room for digestifs from the honesty bar.
• Room service A round-the-clock 24-hour room service menu should keep those hunger pangs (or champagne requests) taken care of. You can also take afternoon tea in the drawing room or library.
• Hotel bar The buzzy Oscar bar is popular with Bloomsbury’s media crowd for after-work cocktails and sharing plates. Perch atop a multicolour humbug-striped stool and sip an Oscar Limeade (Grey Goose vodka and apricot brandy muddled with fresh lime) with a tapas platter of chorizo, manchego and octopus, or knock back rock oysters with a glass of fizz.

Charlotte Street Hotel 15–17 Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, London, W1T 1RJ