Meeting and event venues in London

Claridge's

Suite 212 was declared Yugoslav territory for one day in July 1945 so that a crown prince could be born on home soil at this Brook Street hotel.

Raffles London at The OWO

Churchill's old office on Whitehall is now a suite: the Old War Office of 1906 reopened in September 2023 as Raffles London with 120 rooms.

120 rooms

Rosewood London

Rosewood's first European house, opened in October 2013 inside the 1914 Pearl Assurance headquarters on High Holborn, around a seven-storey marble staircase.

262 rooms

Savoy Hotel

Richard D’Oyly Carte’s 1889 hotel on the Strand, where César Ritz and Auguste Escoffier made their names.

267 rooms

Corinthia London

The 1885 Hotel Métropole on Whitehall Place spent seven decades as government offices before reopening in 2011 as Corinthia London with 283 rooms.

283 rooms

Bulgari Hotel London

At 171 Knightsbridge, Bulgari Hotel London opened in June 2012 with 85 rooms, a 25-metre pool and a 47-seat private cinema below street level.

85 rooms

The Ned

Lutyens' Midland Bank headquarters on Poultry, where 92 green verdite columns now frame the restaurants of the old banking hall.

The Dorchester

The 1931 Park Lane hotel facing Hyde Park, whose concrete structure made it a wartime refuge.

250 rooms

45 Park Lane

Forty-five rooms over Hyde Park in the building that housed the London Playboy Club from 1966 to 1981, with Wolfgang Puck's first European restaurant.

45 rooms

The Langham, London

Opened in 1865 as Europe's first purpose-built grand hotel, where Conan Doyle and Wilde dined in 1889 and each left with a commission.

380 rooms

Brown's Hotel

Opened in 1837 by Lord Byron's former valet and often called London's first hotel; Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone here in 1876.

115 rooms

The Connaught

A Mayfair hotel rebuilt in 1897 whose carved mahogany staircase leads to a dining room with three Michelin stars and the bar twice named the world's best.

121 rooms

The Goring

Owned by the Goring family since 1910, granted a Royal Warrant in 2013, and the Middleton family's base on the eve of the 2011 royal wedding.

69 rooms

The Lanesborough

A Greek Revival hospital by the architect of the National Gallery, where Henry Gray worked, reborn in 1991 as a hotel with a butler on every floor.

93 rooms

The Berkeley

A rooftop pool with a sliding roof above Knightsbridge, in the 1972 building that took the Berkeley name from Piccadilly.

190 rooms

Hotel Café Royal

Oscar Wilde's Regent Street café of 1865, where David Bowie retired Ziggy Stardust, has been a hotel since 2012 with its gilded Grill Room intact.

160 rooms

One Aldwych

One Aldwych swims where the Morning Post's presses ran: an 18-metre pool with underwater music under a 1907 newspaper building by the Ritz's architects.

105 rooms

The Landmark London

Built in 1899 as the Great Central Hotel for the last main line into London, with an eight-storey glass-roofed atrium of palm trees at its centre.

300 rooms