Mr & Mrs Smith

Claridge's

London, United Kingdom

London's most glamorous grande dame wows with art deco decor, a fashionable attitude and an effortless air of refinement. Few hotels hold a candle to Claridge's for a sense of occasion, whether you're taking award-winning tea in the foyer, dining at Gordon Ramsay or sipping champagne at Claridge's Bar.

Need to know

• Rooms 203, including 67 suites.
• Rates Double rooms from $541.59 (£350), excluding tax at 20 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional service charge of 5% per room per night on check-out.
  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 (£350) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Rates do not include breakfast; à la carte items start from £8.
• Facilities Spa treatment rooms, fitness room with TechnoGym equipment, personal training, concierge service, boutiques, DVD library (£12 a day), free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, minibar, bottled water, organic Bamford toiletries, bathrobes, slippers. DVD/CD players, iPod docking stations, laptops and games consoles provided on request. In top suites, you'll also get champagne, fresh flowers, fruit and chocolates on arrival – not to mention butler service.
• Check-out 12 noon. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
• Children Warmly welcomed. Extra beds (£75 a night) and cots (free for under-3s) can be added to larger rooms; highchairs and special children’s dishes are available in the Reading Room, Foyer and by room service. Babysitting can be arranged, from £8 an hour.
• Also Small pets (up to 15lb) stay free. Outside your room, Fido must be on a lead and won't be allowed in any dining areas (an exception is made for guide dogs). All public areas are wheelchair accessible and some rooms are adapted for the differently abled.
• Please note

  Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's will cease operations as of 30 June 2013. News about a replacement is hotly anticipated...

Food and drink at Claridge's

• Hotel restaurant

  Headline act is Modern European fine-diner, Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's; grown-up food served in Thierry Despont's grown-up surrounds. The set lunches are great value; try the braised beef featherblade. All-day dining is on offer in the more relaxed Reading Room, with à la carte offerings spanning the gamut from corking club sandwiches to caviar. 

• Dress code Channel 'The Great Gatsby': silky palazzo pants for tea in the Foyer; embellished flapper dresses for Claridge's Bar. You'll need to dress smartly (don a jacket, gents) for Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's.
• Top table For tea, you can't beat a piano-side spot beneath Dale Chihuly's luminous hand-blown glass centrepiece; for cocktails, snuggle in the Fumoir; at dinner, watch things heat up at the pass from the chef's table at Gordon Ramsay.
• Last orders Claridge's barmen shake and stir until 1am. The Foyer: breakfast, 7am–10.30am (Sundays, 8am–11am); lunch, 12 noon–2pm; tea, 3pm–6pm. The Reading Room: 7am–10.30pm; Gordon Ramsay: lunch, 12 noon–2.45pm; dinner, 5.45pm–11pm.
• Room service 24 hours: a delicious selection of dishes will take you from breakfast (including Continental and Japanese options) to dinner (canapés, steaks, lobster and more) via afternoon tea and canapés.
• Hotel bar

  Reconcieved by David Collins, Claridge's Bar is a polished, old-school affair with sparkling surfaces and red-leather upholstery. Champagne cocktails are de rigueur, but we love the Chivas-, citrus- and mint-muddled Claridge's Regal. There's also a menu of bar snacks, including a daily-changing Bento Box. For a more intimate tipple, cosy up with a cognac by the marble horseshoe bar in the 1930s-themed Fumoir: cocktails are served in Lalique crystal, no less.

Claridge's Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K 4HR