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...

In a former MI5 research building, Sanctum is Soho club cool with its dark colours, bling room handles and deco lamps, sexed up with a handful of rotating...

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...

In 2010, a grand, Grade II-listed, early 20th-century town hall was transformed into a classy modern aparthotel - despite its location between a council...

You only have to push through the front door and enter the breathtaking Lobby Bar to know that you're in for a treat. Despite the building's weighty history...

Considered one of London's more historic luxury hotels, the Lanesborough was in fact redeveloped - impressively - only in 1991. Occupying an 1820s Greek...

The superluxe, Grade II-listed Savoy reopened after more than £100m of renovations in October 2010 - the numerous delays testimony to the difficulty of...

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...

Brown's was opened in 1837 by James Brown, butler to Romantic poet, hedonist and freedom-fighter Lord Byron. The first British telephone call was made from...

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...