London, United Kingdom

At Sloane

Price per night from$793.98

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Style

Flirty French maison

Setting

Regal King’s Road

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Opulence is no stranger to West London’s Chelsea, and luxury hotel At Sloane leans into it with 30 romantic rooms, a rooftop restaurant set for King’s Road royalty and a speakeasy-style bar for the ages. Occupying a Victorian townhouse built in 1888 by Liberty & Co architect, Edwin Thomas Hall, the design has been lovingly tweaked by François-Joseph Graf into a stylish English-French fusion. Every corner is carefully considered: mirrors conceal hidden doors, bright hues on the sixth-floor restaurant contrast with rich reds in the basement bar, and black-and-white portraits line the stairwells – decadence is in the details after all.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

30, including five suites.

Check–Out

Noon, check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, on request, and subject to availability.

More details

Rates don’t include breakfast, but Continental and à la carte options are available at the rooftop restaurant.

Also

One of the rooms and all the communal areas (including the bar and restaurant) are accessible, but some of the smaller corridors can be a little restrictive for wheelchair-users. There are also stairs up to the main entrance, but staff will be happy to assist guests with limited mobility through the back entrance, or set-up a ramp for ease.

Please note

If the total cost of your reservation comes to £8,000 or more, please contact us before booking.

At the hotel

Free WiFi throughout. In rooms: iPad, smart TV, tea-making kit, fully stocked minibar, and Noble Isle bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Immaculately designed by famed French designer François-Joseph Graf, each of the hotel’s 30 rooms have a refined sense of symmetry that juxtaposes playful accents, hidden entrances and bright, bespoke textiles. Spaces are couple-oriented, with black-and-white photos of storied duos, ‘love’ lighting settings, bath tubs pour deux, and minibars that include all the classics (if Clase Azul tequila is your go-to, that is), plus decks of Pillow Talk cards. But for something that’ll really set the tone, we’d suggest the sprawling Sloane Suite, that’s primed with a bathside champagne bucket, silky-soft king-size bed, separate living room, and handmade cashmere curtains that make for a truly seductive stay.

Packing tips

Revise with a few episodes of Made in Chelsea before you start packing, but anything you'd spot at London Fashion Week should blend in best with West London’s upmarket crowd.

Pet‐friendly

Dogs (and cats) under 10 kilogrammes are welcome for £50 a stay. See more pet-friendly hotels in London.

Children

Little Smiths are welcome, but this reposeful city escape is better tailored to couples.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Ask for the restaurant’s most secluded table and servers will guide you down a narrow hallway into a private, chapel-like alcove that’s set for four (or two, if you’d rather dine à deux).

Dress Code

Think former Sloane Ranger Princess Diana (both athleisure and evening wear), and you’ll be right on the mark.

Hotel restaurant

Little else in London is as coveted as a view-blessed roof terrace – and At Sloane’s sixth-floor restaurant has outdone itself with a particularly arresting one, with panoramas set to impress both outside and in. But, it’s the 300 Chinese vases, hand-chosen by Graf himself, and walls lined with antique mirrors that really steal the scene – and that’s all before the first course has even arrived. Menus are secret, so you won’t know exactly what’s coming until seated, but expect varied twists on classic French fare (the spicy lobster pasta is a rumoured favourite) and refined wine pairings.

Hotel bar

Downstairs, a speakeasy-inspired bar is dressed in deep reds and craft cocktails are served to dimly-lit tables, which are bordered by reupholstered theatre seats and latticed screens. For even more privacy, ask for one of the secluded booths, set down a hallway and hidden behind handmade curtains.

Last orders

Breakfast is served between 7am and noon; lunch then runs until 6pm, and dinner is from 6pm to 10pm.

Room service

Dishes can be delivered to your door during restaurant opening hours.

Location

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Address
At Sloane
1 Sloane Gardens
London
SW1W 8EA
United Kingdom

At Sloane takes its name from neighbouring Sloane Square, Chelsea’s storied shopping spot in the heart of West London.

Planes

You can fly into any of London’s international airports, but Heathrow has the fastest routes into the city; hop in a taxi and you’ll be at the hotel in under an hour (as long as the traffic treats you well). Otherwise, the Heathrow Express takes passengers to Paddington in under 15 minutes; from there take London Underground’s Circle Line for 10 minutes and jump off at Sloane Square. Hotel staff are also happy to arrange private transfers from any of the city’s airports.

Trains

Getting around London is made easier given that the hotel sits less than a minute’s walk from Sloane Square Underground Station, which has frequent District and Circle line tubes between South Kensington and Victoria.

Automobiles

Ditch the wheels and stick to the city’s public-transport system and taxis.

Worth getting out of bed for

At Sloane feels more home than hotel, so it’s best to make sure you’re living like a local, and there’s no better place to start than the King’s Road. Set a few minutes from the hotel, this 17th-century street teems with Chelsea’s best-dressed residents (and their dogs) wandering between glossy shops and independent cafés. And while you’re there, be sure to stroll through Duke of York Square – which has a food market every Saturday – and down Pavilion Road, where artisanal bakeries and locally loved restaurants reside in a mews of redbrick buildings. The Saatchi Gallery sits nearby and has a host of ever-changing contemporary art exhibitions, and during the warmer months the Chelsea Physic Gardens’ four acres bloom with over 4,500 species of edible and medicinal plants.

If the shopaholics are still looking for more, Harrods is set to keep you entertained with seven floors of fancy threads in nearby Knightsbridge. Crowds can tend to take over along this particular stretch of the Brompton Road, so for those seeking something a little more peaceful, Hyde Park is a 15-minute walk away – the Serpentine Galleries are also worth marvelling at while you’re there, and impressive performances are often happening in the adjacent Royal Albert Hall. Museums are in abundance in London, and South Kensington’s Cromwell and Exhibition roads house some of the best: the Victoria & Albert Museum has one of the world’s largest collection of decorative arts, the Natural History Museum impresses with over 80-million Earth-related artefacts, and the Science Museum has immersive exhibitions year-round.

Local restaurants

Set a 10-minute walk from the hotel, Chinese-restaurant Hunan does things differently. Once you arrive, servers will ask if there’s anything you don’t eat and how much spice you can handle; they’ll then bring an array of tapas-sized sharing plates that’ve been expertly sautéed, stir-fried and steamed behind the scenes by owner and head chef, Mr Peng (very few people are privy to his first name, so we shan’t divulge). At Michelin-awarded Muse by Tom Aikens, seasonal tasting menus are inspired by the chef’s British upbringing and come accompanied by short origin stories. Stick with the quintessentially English ambience and head to the Orange – a four-floor gastropub, and former brewery, along Pimlico Street.

Local cafés

Chelsea has cafés aplenty, and the folks at Hagen – where beans are homebrewed and poured in a Scandi setting – are on hand to ensure your caffeine fix is sorted in style. On Pavilion Road, the Roasting Party have refined a lengthy list of blends that suffice every sippers’ preference.

Local bars

A trip to London wouldn’t be complete without a couple of pints at the pub, and you’ll find them in abundance wherever you roam; but for something a little more elegant, stop by Wild Corner, which has over 150 bottles of sommelier-selected wines. Another impressive collection of spirits resides at Mezcalito, which serves spicy margs alfresco (heaters will keep you cosy during winter) and tacos every Tuesday.

Reviews

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Laura Fantacci

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By Laura Fantacci, Sartorial savant

Fifteen years of marriage, and 30 since we first met as teenagers, called for a proper celebration. We didn’t want to get on a plane, no check-in stress, no childcare panic. Just us, a beautiful hotel in a dreamy part of town, and a chance to enjoy the date night of all date nights: cocktails, theatre, great food, and the sweet, rare pleasure of staying out (or in) as late as we liked. So, we planned the ultimate anniversary celebration: a grown-up sleepover… in our own city.

Enter: At Sloane.

Just 27 steps (yes, I counted) from Sloane Square Tube station, it’s nestled in a row of red-brick Victorian townhouses that feel plucked straight out of a Mary Poppins scene: classic and elegant, but not in a stiff-upper-lip kind of way. Be ready to leap into a chalk drawing and live an enhanced life for a moment.

The entrance whispers heritage, but once you step inside, you’re somewhere surprisingly now. The formality melts away. There’s no reception desk, just a long communal table scattered with books and curious objects, where female staff drift about in little black dresses and their own choice of shoes and accessories. (I work in fashion, so I always clock the uniforms, or in this case, the confident lack of one.) The message? Be whoever you want to be. Or, in our case, be the younger, carefree versions of ourselves — the ones who stayed out late and made spontaneous plans.

One of the first details that caught my eye and instantly made me smile were the bathroom doors, which were playfully marked 'Loos'. It’s a tiny thing, but it tells you everything you need to know about this place. This is a hotel with personality: somewhere between a smart London townhouse and Mary Poppins’ talking umbrella. Effortlessly British, a little unexpected, and cheeky in all the right places.

Our room continued the story. It was light-filled, cosy and overlooked the chimney-pot rooftops of Chelsea. The wood-panelled dressing area had a fabulously old-school glamour, while the tech was bang up to date: electric blinds, iPads to set the lighting and music, and a bed I’m still thinking about. Also noteworthy were the minibar snacks, all complimentary — a rarity. 

While waiting for Mr Smith to arrive, I indulged in one of life’s great pleasures: a solo lunch. I’m on an eternal quest for the perfect club sandwich, and this one made it into my little black book. Three layers of crisp toast (the waitress was unsure it would work with gluten-free bread, but the chef worked his magic in an everything-is-possible kind of way), with whisper-thin fries that were salty, golden and practically perfect.

Later, I got ready for the evening and met Mr Smith in the bar, where the buzz was in full swing. One cocktail in, and I felt like I was in my twenties again (alright, thirties). We strolled into the balmy June air to a nearby Japanese restaurant, then walked on to Hamilton at the Victoria Palace Theatre. Afterwards, we wandered back to At Sloane on foot (the joys of a central location), hand in hand, gelato in the other, walking through Chelsea with not a care in the world. And… fade to black.

The next morning? No innuendos (it’s been 15 years, after all), but yes, we had a spectacular night’s sleep. We took breakfast in the light-filled dining room with the windows open, enjoying excellent tea, softly poached eggs, a platter of delicious Serrano ham, and that elusive kind of calm that lets you pretend, just for a moment, that this could be your everyday life.

If I didn’t live in London, I’d say it felt like a dream city break. But because I do, it was something even rarer: a spoonful of magic in a week of normal, a beautiful reminder that joy doesn’t always require jet-lag. Sometimes, it’s just a postcode away.

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