You'd hardly know you were in the heart of Soho once you're inside Firmdale's edgiest hotel: the place is wonderfully quiet, with what was once a car park...

This isn't the only hotel in London to provide butlers, but there can't be many that offer 'a secured gun cabinet room' for hunting season. This is...

The location and tucked-away screening room of this Firmdale hotel ensure it continues to attract starry customers, with anyone needing a bit of privacy...

A faded railway hotel until its £70m Conran overhaul in 2000, the red-brick Great Eastern became in 2007 the first of Hyatt's new Andaz portfolio. The new...

Claridge's is sheer class and pure atmosphere, with its signature art deco redesign still simply dazzling. Photographs of Churchill and sundry royals grace...

A Park Lane fixture since 1931, the Dorchester's interior may be thoroughly, opulently classical, but the hotel is cutting edge in attitude, providing an...

If you like the idea of a world where jeans and trainers are banned and jackets must be worn by gentlemen when dining (the requirement is waived for...

A terrific addition to Kit Kemp's Firmdale portfolio, this block-size building (a private townhouse within the hotel can be rented) was designed by John...

There's nothing flashy about this new-build hotel, but it is well run, neatly designed and obliging: the rooms have all the added extras you'd want (CD/DVD...

The flashier little sister of the Halkin, the Metropolitan may have had its fashion heyday in the 1990s, but it still retains a buzzy, relaxed sense of...

The Trafalgar is part of the Hilton chain of hotels, but you'd hardly notice. The mood is young and dynamic at the chain's first 'concept' hotel, for all...