The Top 58 Hotels in London
The best hotels in London, by the professional record: Michelin Guide, Forbes Travel Guide, and 50 Best have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Claridge's comes out on top.
Raffles London at The OWO and The Emory hold the next two places. Forbes Travel Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Michelin Guide next.
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The brass banister gets polished every day, which tells you everything about this Art Deco Mayfair hotel. Claridge's is old-school London grandeur without irony: gilded columns, Lalique vases, bathrooms with showerheads so spectacular that guests have reportedly tried to pocket them. Service runs on courteous familiarity rather than cool detachment. It holds a Forbes Five Star, three Michelin Keys, and a spot at number 16 on the World's 50 Best Hotels list.
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The former Old War Office, where Churchill paced and Ian Fleming quietly took notes for a certain fictional spy, is now a Raffles hotel. The 120 suites carry names like Churchill and Granville, the corridors run two and a half miles, and a hidden bar in the old MI6 interrogation rooms bans photography. Nine restaurants, a Guerlain spa, and a Forbes Five Star plus a spot on the World's 50 Best Hotels round out a place that takes its own mythology rather seriously.
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A Richard Rogers glass tower tucked into a cobbled Belgravia yard, London's first all-suite hotel announced itself quietly and then let the details do the shouting. Sixty-one suites divided among a dream team of designers give each floor its own personality, while the subterranean spa, rooftop bar, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant keep guests from needing to leave. On the World's 50 Best Hotels list at number 32, and holding a Michelin Key.
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- 50 Best #32 · The World's 50 Best Hotels
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The first Four Seasons to open in Europe, this Mayfair hotel has aged the way Mayfair pretends to, with genuine care rather than denial. Rooms come with city or Hyde Park views from private balconies, the tenth-floor spa sits above most of the neighborhood, and Yannick Alléno's Pavyllon London handles dinner. The concierge team holds more Les Clefs d'Or keys than any other London hotel. Forbes Five Star and three Michelin Keys.
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
- Michelin Guide 3 Keys
- 50 Best 2025 · Most Admired Hotel Group Award
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Antonio Citterio's minimalist interiors sit on the fringes of Hyde Park, all dark oak, Italian marble, and vintage Bvlgari jewellery cases lit like relics. This is a luxury hotel in the deep Knightsbridge sense, meaning Harrods is a short walk and the prices assume you aren't counting. Forbes Five Star and Michelin's 3 Keys. The spa is genuinely monumental, the service is the kind that anticipates rather than reacts, and the Continental cool quietly unsettles old-school London hotel traditionalists.
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The glass-domed Rotunda at the center of this Forbes Five Star, Michelin Key hotel is where breakfast, cocktails, and afternoon tea all happen to share the same magnificent ceiling. The building started life as the Port of London Authority, and the Corinthian columns and crystal chandeliers haven't forgotten it. Rooms run to marble bathrooms with heated floors; top-floor residences add private terraces and full kitchens. The Tower of London is across the street, which is a lot to live up to.
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
- Michelin Guide 1 Key
- 50 Best 2025 · Most Admired Hotel Group Award
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The floor managers stationed on every level around the clock give you a sense of what kind of hotel this is. A grand Edwardian pile on Knightsbridge, with Hyde Park on one side and Harrods on the other, it holds a Forbes Five Star and three Michelin Keys, and the service runs accordingly. Rooms are classic and traditional rather than fashionably stark. The shopping options outside are, to put it gently, dangerous.
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A Damien Hirst hangs in the corridor and a Barbara Hepworth sits around the corner, which tells you roughly what kind of hotel this is. The Connaught is old Mayfair luxury, renovated enough to stay relevant but not so much that anyone would mistake it for a boutique. Guy Oliver's muted, clean-lined interiors hold their seriousness well. The Connaught Bar and Hélène Darroze's three-Michelin-star restaurant keep guests from leaving. On the World's 50 Best Hotels list.
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The forecourt's famous covered driveway, the only street in Britain where traffic drives on the right, is a reliable hint that ordinary rules don't apply here. This landmark London hotel holds a Forbes Five Star and three Michelin Keys, and splits its rooms between Art Deco and Edwardian styles. Gordon Ramsay runs three dining rooms on site. The American Bar, restored to its precise 1889 state, is the draw for anyone not staying.
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A doorman in a top hat meets you outside eleven joined Georgian townhouses in Mayfair, which sets the tone for this grand, old-school London hotel. Brown's has been around forever, and a top-to-bottom renovation by Olga Polizzi brought the interiors into something more cultured and contemporary than the usual country-house look. Shelves of British literature, the Donovan Bar, and Charlie's for pre-theatre dinners round things out. Forbes Five Star and Michelin 2 Keys.
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The seven-storey marble staircase alone is said to be worth $65 million, which puts the Rosewood London's priorities in perspective. This Forbes Five Star hotel occupies a grand Edwardian pile on High Holborn, originally built for an insurance company that clearly had ambitions beyond actuarial tables. Rooms are generous by London standards, and the suites ascend into near-parody, one wing having its own postcode. Scarfes Bar, named for the Gerald Scarfe illustrations covering its walls, is the warm, clubby heart of the place.
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Floors 34 through 52 of Renzo Piano's glass spike above London Bridge, the Shangri-La holds a Forbes Five Star and a Michelin Key, and the swimming pool on the 52nd floor is the highest in Europe, which is either thrilling or unsettling depending on your relationship with heights. Every room has floor-to-ceiling windows, marble bathrooms with heated floors, and views stretching toward Kent. Borough Market is a short walk downhill, back in the world of mortals.
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The rooftop pool that was, for years, the only one in London gives you a decent sense of how The Berkeley operates: a luxury hotel in Knightsbridge that keeps getting there first, quietly. Rooms lean minimalist by the standards of the neighborhood, suites are dressed by guest designers, and Cédric Grolet handles afternoon tea. It holds a Forbes Five Star and two Michelin Keys, which the regulars who've been booking the same room for decades probably already knew.
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A welcome drink made with honey from the hotel's own bees sets the tone at this Belmond property tucked between Sloane Square and Belgravia. Fifty-four rooms across five joined townhouses keep it feeling like a private house rather than a hotel, with 400-odd pieces of British art on the walls and access to the otherwise members-only Cadogan Place Gardens. Oscar Wilde's old room is now part of the Royal Suite. Forbes Five Star and Michelin two keys.
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The Italian marble tubs alone could justify the room rate, and they may well be the deepest in London. This is the grand hotel as it was meant to be, sitting opposite Hyde Park on Park Lane: opulent without tipping into excess, formal without the frost. The Dorchester holds a Forbes Five Star and two Michelin Keys. Bars, restaurants, a celebrated spa, and staff who treat everyone like visiting royalty round out a property that set the template.
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A Forbes Five Star hotel steps from Liverpool Street, with interiors by Yabu Pushelberg that braid City-of-London polish with the Singapore-based brand's East Asian sensibility. Orchids, bonsai, and muted neutral tones run through 237 rooms and suites, which scale from generous to genuinely extravagant. The whole place is calibrated to feel quieter than the financial district humming outside, and it mostly succeeds.
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The last family-built luxury hotel in London, The Goring sits quietly in Belgravia with 69 individually designed rooms, a garden that muffles the city, and a cocktail bar that has been a neighborhood institution long enough to stop explaining itself. The Duchess of Cambridge stayed here the night before her wedding. Anything inadvertently left out of a room arrives on a silver platter before you've finished noticing. A Forbes Five Star property.
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Soft jazz and fresh peonies in the lobby set the tone for this luxury hotel in Belgravia, a short walk from Hyde Park and Wellington Arch. The rooms draw on the grand country-house tradition while staying unmistakably contemporary, with floor-to-ceiling windows and deep-soaking marble tubs. A Peninsula Spa, a rooftop Cantonese restaurant, and a fleet of chauffeur-driven Bentleys complete the picture. It holds three Michelin Keys and a Forbes Four Star.
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A Tokyo-based hotel group doing something quiet and considered on a tree-lined Marylebone side street, The Prince Akatoki holds a Forbes Five Star and earns it without making a fuss about anything. Each room leans into warm wood and ryokan-style textures, and the hotel greets and sends off guests with small, thoughtful gifts rather than grand gestures. The service runs on the same principle: discreet, unhurried, nothing performed.
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Art deco styling, 45 rooms, and Wolfgang Puck's CUT steakhouse in the lobby: this Mayfair hotel wears its luxury without announcing it at every turn. Every room has a Hyde Park view and contemporary British art on the walls, and the penthouse has enough space to host dinner for half of central London. The Dorchester is right next door if you need more. Michelin 2 Keys and Forbes Four Star.
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The Baccarat chandelier in the lobby sets the tone: this is a luxury hotel that used to house the Ministry of Defence, and the building still carries that weight. Rooms come with marble baths, Hypnos beds, and underfloor heating as standard, while the penthouses top out at two floors with a terrace facing the London Eye. A four-floor spa, Tom Kerridge's Bar & Grill, and Salvatore Calabrese mixing cocktails downstairs round things out. It holds a Michelin 2 Keys and a Forbes Four Star.
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Some of the oldest trees in Britain shade the 430-acre Hampshire estate surrounding this Georgian country house hotel, which takes about an hour from London to reach but feels several centuries further. The organic farm supplies the kitchens, the Land Rovers meet you at the train station, and the 45 rooms run from cosy to enormous, all done in a style that manages to be stylish without trying to impress you. Michelin awarded it 2 Keys.
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The lobby's Ming green marble arrives before you've even found your room, and the spiral staircase down to Akira Back's first UK restaurant makes clear this hotel takes its interiors seriously. A Michelin 2 Keys, Forbes Four Star property in Mayfair's Hanover Square, it holds fewer rooms than private residences, which keeps things quiet in the way only money reliably does. Vivienne Westwood designed the signature fan.
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An Antony Gormley sculpture crouches two stories tall on the corner, half gargoyle, half Minecraft figure, and yes, you can sleep inside it. The Beaumont is a Mayfair luxury hotel built around the glamour of a fictional 1920s New York members' club, with Art Deco bones, walnut paneling, and marble bathrooms that feel more bespoke suit than grand gesture. The bar and restaurant keep the mood going. It holds a Forbes Four Star and 2 Michelin Keys.
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Ninety-three rooms and suites, each one different, all attended by round-the-clock butler service, which the hotel will tell you no other London property offers. The Lanesborough sits at Hyde Park Corner with the park on one side and Buckingham Palace not far off, its Regency bones intact under a quietly high-tech renovation. The hotel cat, a Siberian named Lilibet, patrols the public rooms. Michelin awarded it 2 Keys.
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Afternoon tea at the Palm Court didn't start here by accident; the Langham claims the tradition as its own invention. This grand Victorian hotel on Portland Place has marble floors, soaring ceilings, and the kind of bones that make newer luxury rivals look like they're trying too hard. The Artesian bar and The Wigmore pub are both on-site, and the whole West End is essentially at the door. Michelin awarded it 2 Keys.
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The Palm Court still runs five seatings of afternoon tea a day, and guests still dress for dinner, which tells you everything about the register of this hotel. Neoclassical Louis XVI interiors, a Green Park address, and a staff whose friendliness tends to catch first-timers off guard. A renovation is underway through 2028, but the Ritz has been making that trade-off look easy for a very long time. Michelin lists it at 2 Keys.
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A boutique hotel in Belgravia that began life as a petrol station, which explains nothing about what it looks like now. Forty-one rooms dressed in leather, muted tones, and marble bathrooms large enough to take seriously, organized loosely around the five classical elements in a way that stops well short of spa-retreat theater. The lobby is small by design; the rooms get the space. Holds a Michelin Key and a Forbes Four Star.
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A 400-piece contemporary art collection lines the halls of this Edwardian landmark near Covent Garden, including a large-scale sculpture made entirely of colorful comics standing guard at the entrance. One Aldwych is a boutique hotel with a Forbes Four Star and a Michelin Key, a 18-meter pool, a Bamford spa, and a Lobby Bar that draws the pre-theater crowd as reliably as the theaters themselves do.
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The old Cox's and King's bank on the corner of Waterloo Place has been repurposed as London's most convincing argument for Paris. This Sofitel hotel swaps chintz and country-house prints for dark lacquered furniture and near-monochrome rooms that feel genuinely continental. The Wild Honey St James restaurant holds a Michelin star, and the St James Bar leans glamorous. A Forbes Four Star and a Michelin Key round out a property that takes French hedonism at a Royal address rather seriously.
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Two joined Victorian townhouses on a quiet Knightsbridge terrace, where Picassos hang on the walls and the staff-to-guest ratio runs two-to-one, which explains a lot. This 28-room boutique hotel holds a Forbes Five Star and sits within walking distance of the V&A, Harvey Nichols, and Hyde Park. It runs very much on the small, personal, family-owned model: preferences noted, treats left without being asked, dogs welcomed without drama.
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The lobby smells of eucalyptus and peppermint, and the floor-to-ceiling windows somehow swallow all the Park Lane noise before it gets to you. This sleek Mayfair boutique hotel sits directly across from Hyde Park, with guest rooms done in a stripped-down, Zen-adjacent calm that makes you want to go to bed embarrassingly early. A Forbes Four Star property, and the kind of place where "minimal" doesn't mean forgetting to decorate.
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A £100 million renovation swapped out whatever was there before for dark green leather headboards, marble bathrooms, and a crystal chandelier above a woodland sculpture where a load-bearing pillar used to stand. This Knightsbridge tower hotel holds a Forbes Four Star, sits opposite a private garden square guests can actually use, and runs a naturally lit indoor pool under a double-height glass ceiling that most people in SW1 still don't know about.
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A Charlie Whinney sculpture made from wood and copper hangs in the lobby, its curves meant to echo the Thames visible just outside. This luxury hotel in Nine Elms brought the Park Hyatt brand to the UK, and the 18-story glass tower earns the address: floor-to-ceiling windows frame the river from almost every room. Marble bathrooms, brass and leather details, and 34 suites round out the offer. Forbes Four Star.
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Three Edwardian red-brick buildings a short walk from the palace, arranged around a courtyard that glows with neon after dark. This is an all-suites hotel, so the rooms run large by London standards, with a residential feel that tilts more contemporary apartment than imperial grandeur. The Indian influences are there but quiet. The Jaguar Suite was shaped by the automaker's design director, which tells you something about the clientele. Forbes Four Star.
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A row of white Victorian townhouses just off Queen's Gate, close enough to the V&A that you could hear a docent if the windows were open. The Kensington is a Forbes Four Star hotel run by the Irish Doyle Collection, which turns out to be rather good at the old-school London luxury hotel, a genre the English themselves seem to have quietly given up on. Working fireplaces, Georgian windows, 150 rooms that are comfortable without performing at you.
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Georgian townhouses on Berners Street, renovated into a luxury hotel with Ian Schrager's fingerprints all over the public spaces. The lobby swings from 18th-century tapestry to a minimalist black reception desk lit by chunky candles, and the rooms go the other direction entirely: clean lines, rich wood, earth tones. Three bars on the premises ensure you never have a reason to leave, which is very much the point. Forbes Four Star.
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A former Midland Bank headquarters turned luxury hotel, the Ned wears its Art Deco bones well: marble columns, original banking hall grandeur, and enough bars and restaurants to never leave the building. Rooms run from cozy crash pads with rain showers to the old chairman's office with its own elevator. Bankers and creative-industry types share the space without visible tension. Forbes Four Star.
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Original artworks by the Bloomsbury Set hang on the walls, which tells you everything about the register this hotel is pitching at. Kit Kemp's signature interiors lean into color and pattern where most London hotels were once doing stiff-upper-lip minimalism, and it shows. There's an underground cinema with a Friday film club, an all-day bar, and rooms that feel individually put together rather than chain-issued. Michelin awarded it a Key.
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A former Baptist church in Holborn, dressed by Jacques Garcia in jewel-toned rooms with an Art Deco birds-and-butterflies motif running through every surface. The hotel holds a Michelin Key, and the whole project reads as a love letter to Oscar Wilde, which means the decadence is the point rather than a side effect. Classic bistro fare downstairs, the British Museum and the Royal Opera House around the corner.
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Four red-brick Victorian townhouses in Chelsea, joined together and dressed up as a 56-room boutique hotel that fits so neatly into its residential street you could walk past without a second look. Inside is a warren of rooms, a moody cocktail bar, a library stocked with well-thumbed books, and a conservatory for the morning papers. No two rooms share a floor plan, which keeps the place feeling like a house someone actually lives in.
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Cricket balls serve as doorknobs here, a nod to Dorset Square's history as Thomas Lord's original ground. This 38-room boutique hotel in Marylebone occupies a Regency townhouse where designer Kit Kemp gave every room a different treatment, so you genuinely can't predict what you're walking into. The Potting Shed bar pulls in locals alongside guests, which keeps it from feeling like a sealed-off hotel bubble.
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Grosvenor Square has FDR and Reagan statues out front, which sets the tone nicely for a hotel that takes itself seriously without being stiff. The Biltmore is a luxury property in Mayfair, all Art Deco bones with contemporary softening, and it sits a short walk from Bond Street, Park Lane, and Oxford Street. There's no spa, but the fitness setup is substantial and several restaurants and bars are on-site, including a steakhouse.
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There's no reception desk at this Marylebone Lane boutique hotel, just someone with a tablet and a glass of something sparkling to check you in while you sink into a sofa. The rooms are modern in a neighborhood that usually defaults to Georgian formality, and the public spaces include an Italian restaurant in a double-height room and a bar that draws locals as reliably as guests. Butler service runs on every floor.
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A converted Victorian grammar school on the South Bank where the rooms are called classrooms and one of the bars is the Headmaster's Room, which either charms you immediately or it doesn't. This 70-room boutique hotel is the first London outpost of an Indian luxury group, and the Indian influence runs deep, from the cobalt-blue interiors and gold tapestries to staff in traditional dress and an Ayurvedic spa tucked in the basement.
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Leicester Square sits right outside the windows, but the hotel is engineered to make you forget that almost immediately. The Londoner is a 350-room luxury hotel that calls itself a "super boutique," and the phrase earns its keep: Yabu Pushelberg-designed rooms feel considered rather than corporate, and six floors below the square a full spa and hydrotherapy pool give you somewhere to disappear entirely. A rooftop bar, a speakeasy, and a two-screen Odeon cinema round out a hotel that barely needs a city around it.
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Oscar Wilde drank here, which the hotel wears lightly but you'll notice. Hotel Café Royal is a Forbes Four Star property on Regent Street, with a gilded Georgian shell wrapped around modern guest rooms, see-and-be-seen restaurants, and lounges so ornate they border on theatrical. Piccadilly Circus, Mayfair, and Soho are all a short walk, making it one of the more strategically placed addresses in central London.
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Rooms at this Forbes Four Star hotel look out over Buckingham Palace and the Wellington Arch, which sets a certain tone before you've even unpacked. It's a grand Mayfair property with a marble lobby softened by cream and tan guest rooms, Italian cooking from Theo Randall, and Lebanese food at Najma. Hyde Park is at the door, which is either very convenient or a good excuse to never actually go inside.
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Three Victorian townhouses stitched together across the road from Kensington Gardens, this hotel holds a Forbes Four Star and a staff-to-guest ratio that borders on the theatrical. Sixty-two rooms means the concierge actually knows your name, and the team will assemble a picnic for the park or a midnight snack without blinking. It's a central London hotel that somehow feels like a very well-staffed private house.
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A tucked-away hotel on a quiet lane off Piccadilly, The Stafford London splits its rooms across a Victorian main house, a former royal stable yard, and a newer mews building with contemporary furnishings, so no two stays feel quite the same. The American Bar at the back is a tchotchke-lined room that takes its gin fizzes seriously. It holds a Forbes Four Star rating and the kind of hush that St James's does better than anywhere.
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A Forbes Four Star boutique hotel in Knightsbridge built into a former underground station, with art deco bones and a Jazz Lounge where a grand piano gets played during afternoon tea and crooners show up on weekends. The bar holds rare spirits going back centuries, there are two outdoor cigar terraces, and the 36 rooms are small but seriously considered. The kind of place that takes its past lives personally.
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A bronze sculpture of a man hauling the Palace of Westminster on his shoulder greets you in the lobby, which tells you everything about where you are. This Westminster hotel leans hard into its political past, and the wrought-iron stair railings suffragette Emily Wilding Davison once chained herself to are still in place downstairs. The 256 rooms read bigger than the number suggests, with natural light and a boutique calm that survives the refurb.
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A tucked-away St. James's hotel in a series of Georgian townhouses with its own private courtyard, the kind of address you either know or you don't. DUKES LONDON runs to 87 rooms and leans into old-school discretion: attentive staff, classic decor, afternoon tea in the Drawing Room, and a basement health club with marble steam room. The bar next door has made the martinis famous, which is a fine problem to have.
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The entrance on Park Lane is so understated you could walk past it twice, which suits the guests here perfectly. An all-suites hotel on the Hyde Park edge of Mayfair, Grosvenor House Suites runs to penthouses and park views, corridors quiet enough to hear your own ambitions, and a hushed atrium restaurant where business deals and celebrations proceed at the same discreet volume.
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A grand Park Lane hotel overlooking Hyde Park, Grosvenor House has been a fixture on this stretch of London for the better part of a century. The 423 rooms lean into crisp linens, dark wood, and marble bathrooms rather than boutique-hotel quirkiness, which suits the international business traveler set just fine. It's a large, polished property where the postcode does a lot of the work.
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The former home of the London County Council sits on the South Bank with the Thames out front and the Houses of Parliament across the water, which is an unreasonable amount of drama for a hotel lobby. Vaulted ceilings and wood-paneled chambers keep the Grade II-listed bones intact, while art-deco carpets and a red phone booth on the ground floor remind you this is a Marriott, not a museum. Six floors, no chaos, and a genuinely quieter corner of a very busy riverbank.
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The rococo plasterwork spiraling through the lobby feels like a baroque fever dream squeezed inside a red-brick Westminster hotel. St. Ermin's has a covert past to match: Churchill's Special Operations Executive ran clandestine operations from one of the upper floors, MI6 set up here too, and a rumored tunnel still connects the building to the Palace of Westminster. The velvet Chesterfields and collection of teapots make it all feel very civilized, which was presumably the point.