Mr & Mrs Smith

Haymarket Hotel

London, United Kingdom

Country-house charm meets London sophistication at this centrally located boutique hotel right on Piccadilly Circus. Kit Kemp's quirkily colourful interiors, an eye-popping indoor pool-cum-bar and a made-for-peoplewatching restaurant make the Haymarket Hotel a lavish and relaxing base from which to explore the city's world-class theatres, shops and galleries.

Need to know

• Rooms 50, including 17 suites, and a separate two- to five-bedroom townhouse.
• Rates Double rooms from $517.31 (£329), 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 (£329) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Rates exclude breakfast (£19.50 a person).
• Facilities Heated indoor pool, gym, treatment room, library, valet parking. In rooms: minibar, flatscreen TV and DVD player, CD player and iPod dock, free WiFi throughout, Miller Harris toiletries.
• Poolside There aren't many hotels in London that boast an 18-metre indoor pool as impressive as this one (if at all).
• Check-out 11am, although this is flexible. Earliest check-in, 2pm.
• Children Cots are free, and extra beds can be added to rooms for £48 a night. Babysitting costs £57.60 for two hours;£14 an hour thereafter. Games on request.
• Also Smoking rooms are available.

Food and drink at Haymarket Hotel

• Hotel restaurant

  Tastefully patterned and elegantly canine-themed, Brumus Bar & Restaurant provides European brasserie classics care of Roger Sergent’s excellent kitchen brigade.

• Dress code Savile Row sharpness or low-key London luxe.
• Top table We loved the cosy tables in the bar area; at night, a window seat is fun, but in daylight you might feel on view.
• Last orders 1am for drinks. Brumus restaurant is open 7am–11pm (11.45pm for the post-theatre menu and bar snacks).
• Room service Available 24 hours a day.
• Hotel bar

  During the day, the bar provides a place to pause for a cappuccino, or after the sun is past the yard-arm, a few Haymarket Cosmos or Brumus Margaritas. Doors close at 11.45, but those in situ can carry on regardless till 1am.

Haymarket Hotel 1 Suffolk Place, London, SW1Y 4BP