London, United Kingdom

The Soho Hotel

Price per night from$448.22

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (including tax) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (GBP355.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

Modern British wit

Setting

Central secrecy

Veer off Wardour Street and head towards a twinkly porch of the Soho Hotel to find a 10-foot porcelain Botero cat sculpture, various oversized plant pots and a clash of driftwood and neon-tinted Perspe. In short, it's a refreshing alternative to the marble and brass lobbies of most hotels in this postcode. Part of Firmdale Hotels, this design-minded address reflects the cool, creative credentials of its surrounding neighborhood, with two cinema rooms, a Soholistic gym, in-room beauty treatments and a playful-looking Refuel bar and restaurant. Start and end your night in Soho here. 

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Cocktails for two in the hotel bar

Facilities

Photos The Soho Hotel facilities

Need to know

Rooms

Nintey-six.

Check–Out

Noon. Earliest check in, 3pm.

Prices

Double rooms from £426.00, including tax at 20 per cent.

More details

Rates exclude breakfast. Order hot food from the a la carte menu and take your pick from the buffet breakfast for £26 a person.

Also

The hotel has a screening room which hosts a film club every Sunday – contemporary, classic and 3D films are shown with free popcorn at 3.30pm. You can combine it with a three-course lunch or dinner or a champagne afternoon tea for £35.

At the hotel

Free high-speed internet access, cinema, CD/DVD player, flatscreen TV, Frette linen, iPod dock, Kit Kemp's range of Rik Rak bath products, valet service.

Our favourite rooms

Rock stars opt for the sprawling Terrace Suite, with its views over Soho’s rooftops, but we love the deluxe rooms on the fifth floor.

Packing tips

Hangover remedies; with cocktails this good on tap and amid so many late-night bars, you'd be mad not to take full advantage.

Children

Families are very welcome. Cots (free for children two and under) and extra beds (£65 a night) can be added to most rooms.

Overview

Families are welcomed.

Best for

Babies and up – children of all ages welcomed.

Recommended rooms

The two-bedroom apartments have a fully equipped kitchen. All rooms have minibars where you can store milk. Children up to three years old can stay for free in their parents' bed; extra beds are £40 a night.

Activities

There are DVD players in every room, and a good selection of child-friendly DVDs to borrow at no extra charge. If you have a lot of kids (or are feeling extravagant), a private screening room is available to hire for £250 an hour. The hotel is filled with striking works of art – children adore the oversized cat sculpture in the lobby created by Fernando Botero.

Meals

Children are welcome in the restaurant for all meals, which will be provided at half price and half the portion size. The Soho hotel can also provide milk and baby food.

Babysitting

This can be arranged for a £10 booking fee; give 24 hours' notice if possible. It costs £9.50 an hour from Monday to Friday, and £11 on Saturdays and Sundays, plus the sitter's transport costs.

No need to pack

High chairs and cots are provided.

Also

Older children might get a kick out of playing spot-the-celeb: everyone from P Diddy to Friends star David Schwimmer has checked in.

Food and Drink

Photos The Soho Hotel food and drink

Top Table

By the rack of plants that separates the restaurant from the bar.

Dress Code

Soho sophisticates.

Hotel restaurant

Refuel offers an à la carte menu filled with decadent and down-to-earth modern international cuisine (such as truffled macaroni and cheese or beer-battered cod) if you're looking for a full-on banquet, or cosmopolitan food platters to pick at with your drinks. Settle in for some afternoon tea (which can also be taken in the private drawing room or library).

Hotel bar

Refuel is great for pre or after dinner drinks.

Last orders

11pm.

Room service

An extensive 24-hour menu including tapas-style snacks, gluten-free options and hefty organic meats from a farm in Hampshire if you're after something substantial (as well as a selection of sundaes for afterwards).

Location

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Address
The Soho Hotel
4 Richmond Mews
London
W1D 3DH
United Kingdom

Planes

London Heathrow is a 40-minute drive from the hotel.

Trains

As the name gives away, the hotel is right in the middle of Soho, so several Tube stations are within easy reach – Oxford Circus (on the Central, Bakerloo and Victoria lines) and Tottenham Court Road (on the Central and Northern lines) are your best bets. The overland stations at Charing Cross, Euston, King’s Cross and St Pancras (for the Eurostar) are around a 10-minute taxi journey away.

Automobiles

The super-central setting makes motors unnecessary, but if you do bring one, you can park it on Brewer Street.

Worth getting out of bed for

For lazy days, see what’s on in the hotel’s cinema, be pampered with Temple Spa treatments or work out in the gym. However, you’re in Soho – one of London’s buzziest areas and former bad-boy ‘hood – so exploring is a must. Shop and stop up Wardour Street, where you’ll find diverse wares from designer doughnuts to skimpy lingerie; after dark, duck in and out of its many pubs, bars and clubs – this is the heart of London’s gay scene, so an open mind is a must. Soho Square Gardens draws picnickers in summer, Soho Theatre has a widely varied programme and G-A-Y is legendary for its immensely fun party nights, often attracting famous faces. For a cheeky glimpse into Soho’s saucy past, head to 7 Meard Street, the former home of artist, dandy and provocateur Sebastien Horsley, whose door still bears the sign ‘This is not a brothel’. If you require an especially unique outfit during your stay, Angels fancy-dress store dates back to 1813 and now supplies costumes for Oscar winners. London’s big-hitters (Oxford Street, Regent Street, Tottenham Court Road, Shaftesbury Avenue) are all just a short stroll away, too.

Local restaurants

Soho's meandering streets are packed with gastronomic pit stops. Stop for tea and cakes at Yauatcha on Broadwick Street, or book a table for their delicious dim sum. Dinner at the Ivy on West Street promises showbiz faces among your fellow diners. The real reason to book well in advance, though, is the surprisingly reasonable classic British dishes, among oak panelling and stained glass. The Palomar on Rupert Street has a fabulous Israeli menu with intriguing dishes such as Tunisian lamb tongues. Perch on a stool in the tiled former-fishmonger's interior of Randall & Aubin on Brewer Street for seafood or a grill: J Sheekey on St Martin's Court is another favourite for seafood. Blanchette is a cosy French bistro (take a peek at its saucy wallpaper…), and if you want very fine dining, chic Chinese joint Hakkasan, authentic Italian Bocca Di Lupo and elegant eatery L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon should suit.

Local bars

Hit 100 Wardour Street for Pop Art prints, live music and cool cocktails (their restaurant is also rather splendid). Blind Pig at Social Eating House, has sophisticated old-school trappings: leather banquettes, rich woods, cut-crystal decanters, and a cocktail menu that shakes up the classics. The secretive Experimental Cocktail Club in Chinatown lives up to its name, and Mark's Bar at Hix is a true Brit eccentric. Diversify your drinks at 68 and Boston – the former is an elegant and extremely reasonable wine bar, the latter a svelte, late-night cocktail joint. 

Reviews

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Juliet Kinsman

Anonymous review

By Juliet Kinsman, On-the-go editor

When the offer arises to experience one of London’s most desirable hotel debutantes, I can’t resist – especially since it’s but a stumble from this couple’s Covent Garden office. But don’t let beaded curtains and neon adults-only signs creep into your imagination at the mention of Soho – Kit and Tim Kemp’s transformation of a former carpark at the end of a cul de sac couldn’t be any further from that ever-fading image. And though, just like the namesake districts in Manhattan and Hong Kong, it’s as bustling as neighbourhoods come, this chic-sleep sister to the Covent Garden Hotel is a bubble of cool calm amid a storm.

As we veer off Wardour Street and head towards a twinkly-lit porch, a sharply dressed doorman is waiting to welcome us to us to this extraordinary urban Neverland. A 10-foot-tall porcelain Botero cat sculpture, oversized plant pots and a clash of driftwood and neon-tinted Perspex are a refreshing alterative to the marble and brass lobbies of most hotels in this postcode. (And the pebble-adorned pillars must have fans of home-makeover shows scribbling in their notepads.) The only reminder at check-in of the hotel’s all-but-airbrushed motoring past is a collage of Botero’s puss comprised of tax discs and Monopoly board strips.

It’s only 6pm on a week night, but the tea-light-dotted lobby, and Refuel, the hotel’s bar and restaurant, are already buzzing. This is an establishment where the watering hole and eatery have independent allure; local folk flee editing suites and photography studios for after-work tipples perched at the long, pewter bar, under the deco-style auto-themed mural. As we pass Refuel’s glass front, we can’t resist craning to spy which famous faces are among the chattering masses tonight. (I spot a big-name DJ, and Mr Smith clocks an award-winning director.)

A magnet for movers and shakers, the pony-skin seats of the screening room downstairs regularly hold the derrières of the most high-falutin’, and a daringly decorated cocktail lounge and function room hosts endless star-studded launches. (And should guests who are less keen to see and be seen want to escape the media mêlée, there’s an elegant all-white, pink-lit library, and lime and fuchsia-accented drawing room on the ground floor to retreat to.)

The Soho Hotel is much bigger than you’d imagine, and we’re grateful for a friendly escort through the pretty paisley corridors. Our spacious deluxe digs are sunny and cheery – even though, outside, the weather is anything but. The fresh country-manor kiss to the decor of faded painted rustic furniture, and pastel- and bright-coloured prints, bedspread and curtains are, rather uniquely, the stuff that both Country Living and Elle Deco dreams are made of.

Sadly the photo-shoot feel doesn’t last, as I decide to unpack and get changed for dinner. (This Mrs Smith has a knack of transforming a showroom-perfect setting into a movie scene depicting a locale that’s just been turned over in a hunt for a top-secret microchip.) Clothes shucked and cosmetics strewn, and I’m prancing around, clad only in shoes, when the doorbell rings. I lunge into the respectable, roomy marble bathroom and grab one of the cotton-wool-soft Henry VIII-dimensioned robes.

Settling down with his room service-delivered Tanqueray and tonic, I wonder if Mr Smith has noticed my fresh purchase from around-the-corner shop Agent Provocateur. It proves challenging even for a beribboned cleavage to compete with such a perfectly mixed G&T and the enormous olives delivered with it. At least the guy sitting at his computer in the building over the road (provided he is extremely long-sighted) can appreciate my cabaret. Shame he’s not looking. I abandon my burlesque show and suggest we head down for dinner. At the mention of which my chap’s mouth is at long last watering.

It is when Mr Smith glimpses the wine list when I finally get the boggle-eyed, raised-eyebrows response that I’d hoped my lacy smalls might have achieved. ‘They do each one by the glass,’ he puffs, excited that he can have a Chablis with his foie gras parfait, a Mendoza with his Aberdeen Angus beef fillet, and a muscat with tarte tatin. Plans of visiting one of the many cocktail joints within stumbling distance start to fade, usurped by the desire to spend as much of our stay in situ.

After a fireside nightcap from the honesty bar in the drawing room, we return to a boudoir fresh from a magic turndown service. All traces of my Tasmanian devil tendencies have been tidied away, and rather wonderfully, mineral water and an aromatherapy spray labelled ‘sleep well’ have appeared on the bedside tables. The sheets have been folded back invitingly. Mr Smith collapses on the bed, smiling. ‘I’ve never known a post-work night out like it,’ he sighs. ‘And one I could get used to,’ I think to myself…

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