Where to Stay in Mayfair: London's Best Luxury Hotels (2026)

The grand dames: the five names people mean when they say Mayfair. These are the old, famous hotels with the famous afternoon teas and bars, and they're what you pay four figures for: the building, the service and the history. Claridge's and the Connaught sit at the north-west end near Bond Street, the Dorchester is on Park Lane facing Hyde Park, and the Ritz and Brown's are at the Piccadilly end by Green Park. All five were over £900 a night on an off-peak Tuesday in November.

Claridge's is where I'd send anyone who wants the full Mayfair performance, and of the two Maybourne hotels it's the livelier. It traces its founding to 1812, has carried the Claridge's name since 1856, and its look is 1920s Art Deco, and the ground floor is a destination in itself: afternoon tea in the Foyer and Reading Room from £95, Dante Mayfair, New York's Dante with a permanent address at Claridge's, the Fumoir for a late drink. The spa has a relaxation pool; ask when you book whether access is included in your rate. Claridge's holds MICHELIN Keys and a Forbes Five-Star rating. It's at the Bond Street end, a two-minute walk from the Elizabeth line, and eleven from Green Park. Google has it at 4.7 from more than 4,200 reviews.

Know what the lead-in rate gets you. On Tuesday 10 November the lowest price on the hotel's own engine was £1,173 non-refundable (£1,380 flexible) for a Mayfair Room of about 40 square metres, and it looks onto the courtyard. Add the hotel's discretionary 5 per cent. For light, step up to a Mayfair Balcony Room (45 square metres), and if you book a bigger Claridge's Room, ask for a street-facing one in writing: one unhappy reviewer's Claridge's Room was "without any view" until the hotel moved them. Guests park at a nearby Parkbee car park rather than on site.

The Connaught is the quieter, more village-like of the two Maybourne grand dames, on Carlos Place just off Mount Street. It has more food and drink than most hotels its size: Hélène Darroze at The Connaught, which the hotel says holds three Michelin stars, Jean-Georges for breakfast through dinner and afternoon tea, the Connaught Grill, and the Connaught Bar with its Martini trolley. Guests also get the Aman Spa, which the hotel says is the only one in the world outside an Aman resort, with a pool and steam room. Bond Street is seven minutes on foot and Green Park ten. It's 4.7 on Google from about 2,450 reviews.

The trade-off is room size at the bottom of the range. The Courtyard Superior that Booking.com offered for £1,170 on Tuesday 10 November is about 29 square metres and faces the inner courtyard, and the hotel's single rooms are 21. For a street view, ask for a Superior Room (30 square metres) that faces out, or book a Deluxe and ask for a bay window. There's no connecting-room option in the entry category, so families should look at suites.

The Dorchester is the Park Lane classic, and it's freshly done: the hotel finished a four-year renovation, the biggest in its history, in 2026. It has 173 rooms and 68 suites, Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester (three Michelin stars, as the hotel states), The Grill, China Tang for Cantonese food, afternoon tea in The Promenade, the Artists' Bar and Vesper Bar. There's a spa and gym, and guests can use the pool at 45 Park Lane, its neighbour on Park Lane. Green Park is an 11-minute walk and Hyde Park Corner seven. On Google it's 4.6 from nearly 4,600 reviews, and one reviewer said of the bed that "you just fall into like a big cosy hug".

A Classic Room was £1,400 on Booking.com for Tuesday 10 November, second only to the Ritz among the five. That Classic Room is 34 square metres and looks over Mayfair; the Hyde Park view that's the whole point of Park Lane starts with the Deluxe Park View Room (40 square metres). Park Lane itself is a busy main road between the hotel and the park. Families are well looked after (free cots, and extra beds for guests aged 13 and over at £84 a night), dogs up to 7kg are £35 a day, valet parking is £85 a day, and there are two accessible rooms.

The Ritz is the one everyone's heard of, and it's still independent (not a Ritz-Carlton). César Ritz opened it on Piccadilly in 1906, it overlooks Green Park, and Green Park station is two minutes from the door. Its dining room is the draw: the Ritz Restaurant, which the hotel describes as two-Michelin-starred, and afternoon tea from £95 a head plus a 12.5 per cent service charge. It's 4.6 on Google from more than 7,800 reviews, and as one reviewer put it, the dining room is "the most beautiful room to eat in".

Two honest points. There's no spa, pool or gym, so this is a hotel for eating, drinking and being looked after rather than for wellness. And it's formal: men need a jacket and tie for afternoon tea and the Restaurant. On Tuesday 10 November the 42 square metre Deluxe Room wasn't on sale, so the lowest rate on the hotel's own engine was £1,550 for a 55 square metre Grand Deluxe; the Deluxe is worth watching for on other dates. Valet parking is £75 for 24 hours.

Brown's is my pick if you want a grand old hotel that doesn't feel like a palace. It dates itself to 1832 and has 82 rooms and 33 suites on Albemarle Street, run by Rocco Forte, with wood-panelled afternoon tea in The Drawing Room, Charlie's restaurant and the Donovan Bar. There's a spa and a gym but no pool, dogs are welcome and there's valet parking. Forbes Travel Guide gave it five stars in 2024. Green Park is five minutes on foot and Bond Street ten. Google has it at 4.7 from about 1,650 reviews.

It's the cheapest of the grand dames by a margin. An Executive Room was £940 on the hotel's own engine for that Tuesday, but that room is 30 square metres and faces the inner courtyard. Room layouts vary in an old building like this, and one otherwise glowing reviewer found their first room's layout "a bit less than ideal". For £100 more, a Superior (35 square metres) can face Dover Street instead; ask for that side.

Modern luxury: newer hotels, smaller scale, more spa. These hotels trade the grand-dame history for newer rooms, better gyms and pools, and a more private feel. Most sit along Park Lane or around Grosvenor Square; Mandarin Oriental is at the eastern edge on Hanover Square and 1 Hotel Mayfair at the Piccadilly end. Prices run from £476 at COMO Metropolitan to about £1,950 for a suite at the Chancery Rosewood.

45 Park Lane is the Dorchester's small sibling across the road, with just 45 rooms and suites, every one of them facing Hyde Park. It's Art Deco by Thierry Despont, with a contemporary art collection, CUT (Wolfgang Puck's first European restaurant, a steakhouse), BAR 45 and Sushi Kanesaka, which the hotel describes as Michelin-starred. The spa has an indoor pool, sauna, steam room and gym. Green Park is ten minutes on foot and Hyde Park Corner seven. It's 4.6 on Google from about 830 reviews, and a reviewer summed it up: "less like a massive hotel and more like the world’s most sophisticated private residence".

A Deluxe King of 36 square metres was £1,150 on Booking.com for Tuesday 10 November, £250 less than the Dorchester, for a newer room with a guaranteed park view. The trade-offs: it's small, so there are two restaurants, one bar and no grand public rooms to wander, and you're on the Park Lane end of Mayfair, a 15-minute walk from Bond Street. Parking is £60 a night. Ask for the Hyde Park Balcony Room, which is the same size with a balcony.

Four Seasons at Park Lane is the one for families and anyone who wants the big-brand certainties. It has 153 rooms and 43 suites over 11 floors at the Hyde Park Corner end, a rooftop spa, Pavyllon London by Yannick Alléno (which the hotel calls Michelin-starred) and Bar Antoine. Four Seasons charges nothing extra for children 18 and under sharing their parents' room. Hyde Park Corner station is four minutes away and Green Park nine. It's 4.7 on Google from nearly 1,950 reviews; one reviewer called the service "truly top-notch".

Watch the entry room. On the hotel's own engine the Superior Room was £1,024 on 10 November, and it's only 25 square metres, small for the money. The Deluxe is 35 square metres and was just £42 more, and a Premier Park-View Room was £1,181. A discretionary 5 per cent service fee is added on top. From here the Bond Street shops are a 19-minute walk, the longest of any hotel here.

The Beaumont is my pick for the north end, an Art Deco hotel on Brown Hart Gardens, three minutes from Bond Street station, just south of Oxford Street. It's independent and feels like a club: Rosi for modern British food under chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen, the Le Magritte cocktail bar with a terrace over the gardens, afternoon tea in the Gatsby Room, and a small spa with a hammam, sauna, plunge pool and gym. Every room includes use of the hotel's chauffeur-driven car. Google has it at 4.7 from about 800 reviews.

A Superior King was £1,071 on Booking.com for that night. The Classic Rooms are 30 square metres and look onto a side street or the courtyard, and the Superior Grand is the first category that overlooks Brown Hart Gardens. There's no swimming pool, only the plunge pool, and one reviewer noted "normal wear and tear like loose handles and stains on carpet". Valet parking is £65 a day, and there are wheelchair-accessible rooms.

Mandarin Oriental Mayfair is a sleek, smaller hotel on Hanover Square, at the eastern edge of Mayfair near Oxford Circus. Its big asset is the Elizabeth line: Bond Street's Hanover Square entrance is a one-minute walk, which puts Heathrow on a direct train. There's the Atrium for breakfast and lunch, Mazarine for seafood, the Hanover Bar on the roof, and a spa with a 25-metre indoor pool. It's 4.7 on Google from about 365 reviews, and one reviewer put the location well: "in a quiet corner" near the Tube.

A Deluxe Room (33 square metres, city view) was £1,134 on Booking.com for the same night. The Studio Room (38 square metres) adds a sitting area and a walk-in shower. The hotel lists the 25-metre pool for spa guests and members, so confirm when you book whether your rate includes it. It's also the furthest from Hyde Park: Hyde Park Corner is a 23-minute walk and Green Park 12.

The Chancery Rosewood is the building people come to look at: Eero Saarinen's 1960 former US Embassy on Grosvenor Square, Grade II listed and remade by David Chipperfield Architects as an all-suite hotel of 144 suites. It has the Asaya Spa with a 25-metre pool, the Eagle Bar on the roof, Serra, Tobi Masa for Japanese food, and Jacqueline, whose afternoon tea the hotel says LA LISTE named the world's best for 2026. Bond Street is seven minutes on foot. The flexible rate includes airport transfers and free soft drinks and snacks from the in-room bar.

It's the most expensive way into Mayfair, and the least settled. Tuesday 10 November was sold out on the hotel's own engine; the Tuesday before, the cheapest option was a 53 square metre Grosvenor Junior Suite at £1,950. On Google it's 4.1 from about 430 reviews, well below the older hotels, and one friendly reviewer noted how many "curious visitors" come in to see the building. Come for the architecture, the pool and a suite; for polished service at this price, the Connaught or Claridge's is the safer bet.

1 Hotel Mayfair is the newest style of luxury here: sustainability-minded, with timber floors and stone, built from two existing buildings at 3 Berkeley Street, where the Holiday Inn Mayfair used to be. Green Park station is two minutes away. It has Dovetale, a restaurant led by chef Tom Sellers, the Dover Yard Bar, a Bamford Wellness Spa and a 24-hour gym, and dogs are welcome. It's 4.6 on Google from about 600 reviews.

The King room was £753 on Booking.com for that Tuesday and is 23 square metres facing inward, so ask for the Lounge King, the same size with a city view. There's no pool. Reviews split on the food and beds: one guest summed up a mixed stay as "Great location. Friendly staff. Cute rooms. Terrible food and a hard bed." Valet parking is £85.

COMO Metropolitan is the outlier on price: £476 on Booking.com for a Double Deluxe on Tuesday 10 November, a luxury hotel priced like the value tier. It's on Old Park Lane opposite Hyde Park, five minutes from Hyde Park Corner, with Nobu on the first floor, Labombe by Trivet, a COMO Shambhala spa and a gym that guests use free. It has 144 rooms and suites plus 19 residences, and it's 4.6 on Google from about 1,300 reviews. A family reviewer liked "having Hyde park directly opposite".

The Deluxe City Room is 29 square metres with a city view, so pay up for a Metropolitan Park Room (33 square metres, over Hyde Park, some with balconies) if the park is why you're here. No pool is listed, and Bond Street is a 17-minute walk.

The honest value tier: Mayfair from about £400. There's no budget hotel in Mayfair. What there is: a handful of good hotels in Georgian townhouses and larger modern buildings where a double cost £402 to £621 on the November Tuesday, with small rooms as the usual price of the address. Most cluster on Half Moon Street, Charles Street and Stratton Street near Green Park, with two bigger hotels on Park Lane and Grosvenor Square. For comparison, the London Hilton on Park Lane was £425 for a Queen Room on Booking.com the same night.

The Chesterfield is the value pick I'd book first. It's a Red Carnation hotel on quiet Charles Street, six minutes from Green Park, known for its Sweetshop Afternoon Tea, Stanley's Rooftop Bar and Butlers Restaurant. Pets are welcome at £50 a night. Google has it at 4.6 from about 1,400 reviews, and one reviewer's line sums up the address: "a quiet street steps away from the action".

The price is in the room size. The Classic Double is 13 square metres by the hotel's own figures, and it was £405 non-refundable or £450 flexible on Booking.com for the same Tuesday, with breakfast £30 more; ask for a Superior if you want an armchair. There's no gym, walls can be thin, and the hotel adds an optional £15-a-night service charge you're free to remove. Valet parking is £65 for 24 hours.

The Athenaeum is the independent hotel on Piccadilly with the green living wall on its front, looking across the road to Green Park. It has 116 at The Athenaeum for British food, a terrace on Piccadilly, a spa with a sauna, steam room and cedar hot tubs, and a 24-hour gym. Small dogs are welcome by arrangement and there are accessible Superior rooms. Green Park and Hyde Park Corner are each about six minutes away. Google has it at 4.4 from about 1,500 reviews.

It was the cheapest Mayfair room on Tuesday 10 November: £402 on Booking.com for a Superior Townhouse Room of 20 square metres in its separate townhouse residences. The Superior in the main building is 19 square metres. For the park outlook, pay up for a Park View Room (26 square metres). Piccadilly is a busy road, though one reviewer found "street-noise was low".

The Mayfair Townhouse runs through 15 Georgian townhouses on Half Moon Street, three minutes from Green Park, and it's the most playful hotel in the value tier, with the Dandy Bar for all-day food and cocktails. It's dog-friendly in every room, and some rooms interconnect. Google has it at 4.2 from about 480 reviews.

It was £435 on Booking.com on 10 November. Rooms are small and no two are the same: the Classic is about 17 square metres and the Cabin, 14, is for one person. A one-star reviewer summed up the risk: "The room was small, which I expected for the area, but at £400 per night I do expect a fully functional bathroom." Ask for the Deluxe Garden Room (22 square metres), which has its own patio. There's no spa or gym listed.

The May Fair is the big, busy option: a Radisson Collection hotel of 404 rooms on Stratton Street, two minutes from Green Park, with the May Fair Kitchen (Japanese and Italian), the May Fair Bar, a spa with steam room and sauna, a 24-hour gym and a private screening room. There are accessible rooms designed for wheelchair users. It's 4.4 on Google from more than 3,800 reviews, and one reviewer called the building "lush and beautifully appointed".

A Collection Deluxe was £467 on Booking.com for that night. The Collection Superior is about 22 square metres, the Deluxe about 29 with a marble bathroom, so the step up is worth it. At this size, and with a screening room and event spaces in the building, it feels busier, more like a conference hotel, than the townhouses nearby. Valet parking runs from 8am to 8pm, so arrange it before you arrive.

Flemings was founded in 1851 and made from thirteen Georgian townhouses on Half Moon Street, three minutes from Green Park. It's a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, with 129 rooms and suites, Ormer Mayfair (the hotel says it won a Michelin star in 2024), Manetta's Bar, afternoon tea in The Drawing Room and a residents' gym. Every room is air-conditioned. Google has it at 4.4 from about 420 reviews.

A Deluxe Double was £475 on Booking.com for the same night, below the £550 'from' price on the hotel's own rooms page, so compare both before you book. The hotel doesn't publish room sizes, and a three-star reviewer found the room "definitely on the small side". One reviewer found the bar shut at 11pm on a Saturday, so it isn't the late-night option.

JW Marriott Grosvenor House is the big Park Lane hotel for points collectors, opposite Hyde Park and six minutes from Marble Arch. It has JW Steakhouse, afternoon tea in the Park Room and a gym. It's 4.5 on Google from almost 5,900 reviews, and one reviewer said "even our standard room felt like a small suite".

A Deluxe Room with one queen bed was £458 on Booking.com for that Tuesday, cheap for Park Lane. It's a big events hotel with a ballroom, so expect crowds in the lobby some nights, and it can feel formal: a four-star reviewer found afternoon tea "just too formal and uppity". Bond Street is ten minutes on foot and Green Park fifteen, so this is the Marble Arch end of Mayfair.

The Biltmore is the large modern hotel on Grosvenor Square, with 307 rooms and suites, Grill 88, a spa and a gym open 24 hours. Its Pine Bar lists a Forbes Travel Guide Hotel Star Bars award for 2025. Bond Street is seven minutes on foot. It's 4.4 on Google from about 930 reviews.

At £621 on Booking.com for a Deluxe King for the same Tuesday, it's the priciest in the value tier, and reviewers keep coming back to one thing: "the rooms are SMALL for the price" (the King Deluxe is 27 square metres). Breakfast service can be slow. Ask for a Grosvenor Square View room (28 square metres). Pets aren't allowed.