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The hotels worth a night, and the rooms to ask for when you get there.
First Look · LondonThe Zetter joins six Georgian houses on Sherlock Holmes's old street
The Zetter Bloomsbury's garden of about 1,000 sq m, by the Rich Brothers, backs onto the British Museum, and every guest gets a coin for a drink.
First Look · LondonAt Whiteleys, Six Senses makes a hotel out of a department store
The brand's first British hotel takes a quarter of the 1911 Queensway store, whose marble staircase Foster + Partners had rebuilt by hand in Devon.
Stay · LondonSaarinen's US Embassy, built to keep people out, is now a hotel
The Chancery Rosewood, restored by David Chipperfield with suites by Joseph Dirand, has Carbone, Tobi Masa and a roof bar beneath Roszak's gilded eagle.
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House of Gods · Canary Wharf · 21 September 2026House of Gods brings Orient Express cabins and a Versailles bedchamber to Canary Wharf
The Edinburgh and Glasgow brand that treats every guest as famous opens its biggest hotel yet on Eden Dock, with a rooftop garden bar and canopy-bed suites.
The Derby London City · The City · May 2026A leopard in a bowler hat guards the old bank on Great Tower Street
The Derby turns a former City bank into a Curio Collection hotel, with AvroKO interiors, a brass Treasury Wall and a stained-glass bar facing the St Dunstan in the East garden.
Stay · Bloomsbury · April 2026The Zetter Bloomsbury
The Zetter Bloomsbury's garden of about 1,000 sq m, by the Rich Brothers, backs onto the British Museum, and every guest gets a coin for a drink.
Hotel Indigo London K West · Shepherd's Bush · March 2026Hotel Indigo swaps the fringed chandeliers of the old K West for terrazzo in a former BBC studio building
Relaunched in March 2026, Kensington House in Shepherd's Bush gets a 1970s palette, Roberts radios and a wood-fired pizza kitchen called Flock.
Stay · Bayswater · 1 March 2026Six Senses London
The brand's first British hotel takes a quarter of the 1911 Queensway store, whose marble staircase Foster + Partners had rebuilt by hand in Devon.
The Newman · Fitzrovia · 1 February 2026The Newman dresses Fitzrovia's history in bangle bedposts, with a rooftop sauna for the penthouse
Kinsfolk & Co's first hotel, designed by Lind + Almond at 50 Newman Street, takes its bathroom tiles from a neighbouring façade and its bedposts from Nancy Cunard's bangles.
Sir Devonshire Square · Spitalfields · September 2025Sir Devonshire Square fills an East India Company warehouse with Bauhaus colour and a gallery wall you can buy from
Samuel Wright of Maison 191 dresses the brick courtyard hotel in Anni Albers-inspired geometry, with a lobby wine bar and a shop of local makers.
Stay · Mayfair · 1 September 2025The Chancery Rosewood
The Chancery Rosewood, restored by David Chipperfield with suites by Joseph Dirand, has Carbone, Tobi Masa and a roof bar beneath Roszak's gilded eagle.
Templeton Garden · Earl's Court · April 2025In Earl's Court, seven Victorian houses finally turn round to face their garden
Miiro's first British hotel adds a conservatory-style glass extension by Holland Harvey, interiors by Thurstan and a hand-painted garden mural by Tess Newall.
Park Hyatt London River Thames · Nine Elms · 8 October 2024Park Hyatt arrives in Nine Elms with William Morris walls and a Cantonese tea trolley
Super Potato's English interiors fill the lower floors of a Kohn Pedersen Fox tower, with Yú Gé's Hakkasan-trained head chef cooking above the river.
Hyde London City · Farringdon · September 2024Beneath a Victorian hotel opposite the Old Bailey, Hyde has hidden a Tokyo-style record bar
Studio Moren restores the 1874 Spiers & Pond building at 15 Old Bailey, with Timorous Beasties wallpaper upstairs and Turkish cooking by Selin Kiazim at street level.
