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Haymarket Hotel

Haymarket Hotel

A couples paradise in the centre of the action, Kit Kemp's Haymarket Hotel is a lavish and relaxing base from which to explore the city's world-class theatres, shops and galleries.

The 50-room Haymarket Hotel prides itself on all of its sleeping salons having a unique personality. This is no temple to minimalism: fresh colours and textures abound, not to mention old and antique furniture of various shapes and sizes. The super-high beds are of a type usually only experienced from behind a velvet rope, when you’re dragged around stately homes as a child. This is a place where country-house charm meets London sophistication, where the home-from-home atmosphere is a refreshing departure from the usual five-star offerings in this postcode. All in all, Kit Kemp’s quirkily colourful interiors, an eye-popping indoor pool-cum-bar and a made-for-peoplewatching restaurant make the Haymarket Hotel a lavish and relaxing base from which to explore the city’s world-class theatres, shops and galleries.

Eating & Drinking

Eating & Drinking

Brightly coloured Brumus Bar & Restaurant provides European brasserie classics, care of Roger Sergent’s excellent kitchen brigade. Theatre-land favourite J Sheekey is also a mere stone’s throw away.

Our Favourite Rooms

Our Favourite Rooms

For wonderful views of London’s rooftops, get one of the smaller top-floor rooms; 402 has low-slung windows, giving it a first-class Haymarket vista. Junior Suite 100 has outdoor decking.

Worth Getting Up For

Worth Getting Up For

Thirst for art? Tate Modern and Tate Britain house British and international art collections, while Hoxton’s White Cube gallery is edgier, or, for more experimental offerings try the galleries lining Vyner Street in Bethnal Green.

The Metropolitan

The Metropolitan

With its prime Hyde Park Corner setting, exquisite Japanese food at Nobu and a members’ bar with a big-name waiting list, the Met has become a byword for stylish stays in the capital.

The Metropolitan London has more than earned its reputation for extravagantly hip urban comfort. With its prime Hyde Park Corner setting, exquisite Japanese food at Nobu and a members’ bar with a big-name waiting list, the Met has become a byword for stylish stays in the capital. This decade-old design hotel may not stand head and shoulders above the other bricks-and-mortar boltholes – Grosvenor House, the Dorchester, the Park Lane Hotel – but its sleek, pale modernist façade exudes an air of contemporary cool absent in the grander classics, ensuring it towers above its peers in the eyes of London’s fashion pack. The views are pretty special, too: apart from the occasional glimpse of architecture, it’s pure unadulterated parkland as far as the eye can see. The hotel also has 19 self-catering apartments nearby that can be rented by the week.

Eating & Drinking

Eating & Drinking

Ever-hip hangout Nobu has a reputation that extends well beyond London. And deservadly so – the world-ranking restaurant is hard to beat either in terms of style or the artistry of its delectable New Japanese cuisine.

Our Favourite Rooms

Our Favourite Rooms

If A-list accomodation appeals, the Metropolitan’s rock-star-ready Penthouse Suite, with its floor-to-ceiling windows, boasts one of the most brain-boggling king-of-the-world views in the capital.

Worth Getting Up For

Worth Getting Up For

Catch the boat from Embankment Pier to maritime‑tastic Greenwich and be sure to check out the covered arts and crafts market, the National Maritime Museum and the Royal Observatory before a pint of ale in a historic pub.

The Zetter

The Zetter

The Zetter is all about cutting-edge design, with the clever and ironic contrasts and clashes of modern styles that you’d expect from an establishment embodying London’s eastside renaissance.

The Zetter has been described by some as an ‘urban inn’. Housed in a Victorian warehouse building, it blends in so well with its surroundings that, on first glance, it seems more likely to be a top-end design company than a hotel. Inside, you’ll find all the clever and ironic contrasts and clashes of modern styles that you’d expect from an establishment embodying London’s eastside renaissance. The flamboyant pink chandelier that greets you in the lobby is a statement of intent, and the bold thinking continues throughout the building. Just off the lobby is a small bar that smacks of a 1970s Austrian chalet; the wood panelling, floral chairs and cork stools are bound to raise a smile. And, fittingly for Clerkenwell, land of the digerati, the Zetter comes out tops on technology, too; there’s nothing you can’t access from your TV, be it the internet, a library of 4,000 songs or extensive local information. Who needs a butler when you’ve got this?

Eating & Drinking

Eating & Drinking

The hotel restaurant is beautifully lit, fabulously designed and the Modern Mediterranean menu is especially good for brunch. The bar serves drinks until 11 pm and room service is available around the clock.

Our Favourite Rooms

Our Favourite Rooms

Two of the design-driven rooftop studios are extra-spacious, with large private terraces and views of Sir Norman Foster’s skyscraper, the ‘Gherkin’, and St Paul’s Cathedral.

Worth Getting Up For

Worth Getting Up For

Book a ride on the London Eye, the South Bank’s big wheel for sight‑spotting and vertigo‑inducing views of five counties. Then amble over Waterloo Bridge at sunset to reacquaint yourself with the cityscape from the ground

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