It’s been just over 18 months since we last published a round-up of new and forthcoming hotels in London, but in many ways it feels like a lifetime.
Back in January 2021 the UK was in the grips of a third national Covid-19 lockdown, with stay-at-home orders and the controversial introduction of hotel quarantine for travellers arriving from red list countries.
Fast forward to September 2022 and Covid-19 restrictions have long since been removed, but the last two years have taken its toll on London’s hotel industry, with several properties being forced to close, other changing hands, and many projects having been delayed.
Still, the UK capital remains one of the world’s most visited cities, and this round-up includes more than 50 hotels which have either opened since April 2021 (when restrictions started to lift), or are slated to be unveiled in late 2022 and beyond.
The sixth London property under Accor’s joint venture with the Pierre and Vacances Center Parcs group opened in April 2021.
The four-star aparthotel is set in the former London Olympics Athletes Village, now called East Village and home to more than 2,000 apartments, numerous independent food and drink outlets and hotels.
Adagio London Stratford offers 100 two-person studios and 36 flats designed to accommodate up to four people, all with fully equipped kitchens, with other facilities including The Circle co-working, living and cooking space, as well as a gym, onsite shop and a ‘Library of Things’, from which guests can borrow items to furnish their apartments.
For our Tried and Tested review of Adagio London Stratford (published in July 2021), see:
Hotel review: Aparthotel Adagio London Stratford
This 110-room property opened on Berwick Street in April 2021, as part of a wider development offering 12 luxury private apartments, four family-sized apartments, a residents’ roof garden and a new retail area with shops, F&B businesses and a Co-op supermarket.
The hotel features a double-storey entrance atrium and a guest lounge on the lower ground level, with guestrooms looking onto Berwick Street and Hopkins Street to the west.
Fattal Hotels debuted its NYX Hotel brand in the UK in May 2021, with a property in London’s Holborn district.
NYX Hotel London Holborn was a rebranding of the Grange Holborn Hotel, with the property occupying a ten-storey building on the corner of Southampton Street and Theobalds Road.
A work of street art by Dan Kitchener, described as “part mural, part graffiti”, runs down the entire length of the building, and interiors have been designed by Garuda Design, with rooms and suites located down “moodily lit corridors” and featuring “eye-catching artwork”, large, padded leather headboards, teak sideboards, fully stocked mini Smeg fridges, Nespresso coffee machines, and bespoke ‘Dream’ beds.
Facilities include the all-day and late-night Nyx bar and restaurant, a basement spa with 13-metre Greco-Roman indoor swimming pool, a steam room, sauna and fitness centre.
Formerly known as Le Meridien Piccadilly, this 293-room property reopened as an independent hotel in May 2021.
The Dilly, London features basement bar Downstairs at the Dilly, as well as ground floor bar and restaurant Madhu’s at the Dilly, which serves Punjabi cuisine with a Kenyan twist.
On the lower-ground floors there is a large health club with two squash courts, several rooms of fitness equipment, a swimming pool, dance studio and the Spa at the Dilly.
For our Tried and Tested review of The Dilly, London (published in September 2021), see:
Hotel review: The Dilly, London
Housed within the grade II listed former Bow Street Magistrates’ Court and Police Station on Bow Street close to Covent Garden Underground Station, the 92-room Nomad London opened in May 2021.
The 92-room hotel features food and beverage outlets including all day dining Nomad Restaurant – housed within an atrium “reminiscent of an Edwardian Greenhouse” – as well as Side Hustle offering a shared plates menu, and “East London style craft cocktail bar” Common Decency.
Luxury serviced apartment brand Cheval Collection opened its ninth London property in June 2021, located in the capital’s Kensington district.
Cheval Lexham Gardens features 30 fully equipped one- and two-bedroom apartments spread across six floors, with design inspired by the “quintessentially British history of the South Kensington property”, and facilities including a landscaped atrium garden and fitness centre with Precor equipment.
For our Tried and Tested review of Lexham Gardens by Cheval Maison (published in September 2021), see:
Serviced apartments review: Lexham Gardens by Cheval Maison
Hyatt opened the first central London hotel under its select service Hyatt Place brand in June 2021.
Hyatt Place London City East is housed within a redeveloped 1980s office on Whitechapel Road, just over half a mile walk from Liverpool Street rail and Underground station.
Features include 280 rooms with “separate spaces to sleep, work and play”, some of which have private terraces, as well as Pocketsquare Skyline Bar and Terrace with views of London, Zoom restaurant, and The Market “serving freshly prepared meals anytime, day or night”.
There are also two events spaces for up to 20 guests, a fitness centre, and free wifi throughout.
The 246-room Hub by Premier Inn London Shoreditch opened in July 2021, marking the second Hub property in the Shoreditch area and the fourteenth across the UK.
The hotel occupies a former Victorian stable block on Quaker Street, with the gabled facades of the original building retained during the conversion.
The former Curtain hotel and members’ club in London’s Shoreditch reopened as the Mondrian Shoreditch London in July 2021, following “a major overhaul and complete redesign by London interior design studio Goddard Littlefair”.
The rebranding marked the return of Mondrian to the London hotel scene, following the debranding of the Sea Containers hotel on the South Bank in 2019.
Owned by The Reuben Brothers and operated by Accor and partner Sbe, the 120-room hotel features a rooftop pool, co-working space, and private venue and bar The Screening Room, as well as Bibos tapas restaurant – the first UK eatery by Spanish Michelin-starred chef Dani Garcia.
Travelodge London Manor House opened in July 2021, located on Seven Sisters Road opposite Finsbury Park and a couple of minutes walks from Manor House station.
The hotel features both the group’s Travelodge Plus offering, with enhanced “budget chic rooms” with king-size Travelodge Dreamer beds, blackout curtains, USB ports, bespoke pixel wall art and a new ‘Tranquility Zen’ colour scheme, as well as the brand’s Super Rooms category, with amenities including Lavazza coffee machines and Hansgrohe Raindance showers.
Radisson debuted its lifestyle Radisson Red brand in southeast London in August 2021, joining UK properties in Glasgow and at Heathrow airport.
Radisson Red London Greenwich The O2 is located near the Royal Museums Greenwich, and less than a mile from the O2 Arena.
The 70-room hotel features an all-day restaurant serving a selection of pizzas and burgers, salads and sharing platters, as well as glass-clad rooftop bar Nine, which offers views across Greenwich, Canary Wharf and The O2.
Country house hotel Beaverbrook unveiled its first outpost in London in August 2021, housed within two Georgian townhouses on Sloane Street.
A partnership with property manager, investor and developer Cadogan – which owns 93 acres of Chelsea and Kensington – has seen the 14-suite Beaverbrook Townhouse open opposite Cadogan Place Gardens.
The suites are styled and named after “celebrated and well-loved London theatres”, and the property will also feature a 60-cover contemporary Japanese restaurant and bar, the interiors of which will be inspired by 19th century artist Kokusai.
Pan Pacific Hotels Group unveiled its long-awaited London property in September 2021, with the opening of a 237-room hotel close to Liverpool Street station.
The 42-floor Pan Pacific London is housed within the One Bishopsgate Plaza development, and features interiors designed by Yabu Pushelberg.
Facilities include The Orchid Lounge offering afternoon tea by Cherish Finden, Ginger Lily bar, all day dining Straits Kitchen, destination cocktail bar Silverleaf at The Devonshire House, a patisserie with grab-and-go option, and two private dining rooms seating up to 14 guests.
There is also a dedicated wellbeing floor with an 18.5-metre infinity pool, treatment rooms, relaxation pods, fitness centre, saunas, steam rooms and a “mindfulness studio”, as well as ten meeting venues including the Pacific Ballroom which can accommodate up to 400 guests.
For our Tried and Tested review of the Pan Pacific London (published in December 2021), see:
Hotel review: Pan Pacific London
The Londoner finally opened its doors in September 2021, proclaiming itself to be “the world’s first super boutique hotel”.
The 350-room property had originally been due to open in the summer of 2020, but this was pushed back several times due to the onset of Covid-19.
The hotel is located on the southwest corner of Leicester Square, forming part of the redeveloped Odeon West End site, and offers a total of six restaurants and bars, including the rooftop Japanese izakaya lounge 8 at The Londoner, and ground floor signature restaurant Whitcomb’s featuring contemporary French cooking with influences from surrounding Mediterranean cuisines.
Other venues include Joshua’s Tavern, inspired by 18th-century portrait artist and Leicester Square local Sir Joshua Reynolds, and The Stage lobby restaurant and bar centred around champagne.
The Retreat spa and wellness centre is situated four floors below ground level, and features a pool, juice bar, sauna, steam room and hydro-pool.
The 340-room Canopy by Hilton London City finally opened within the Minories development close to Aldgate Underground station in October 2021.
Business Traveller first reported on the property back in March 2016, and it had originally been scheduled to open in 2018, but several delays pushed back the unveiling by some three years.
The property features Penny Squares restaurant, which “weaves a story of the East End with Jewish and Middle Eastern flavours bringing people together over sharing plates from blazing clay ovens, evocative cocktails and a well-traveled wine list”.
Freedom Cafe offers coffee, lunches and workspace by day, and “cocktails, small plates, music & electric atmosphere by night”, while the “exclusive rooftop wonderland” Florattica has been inspired by “17th century Huguenot silk weavers who made this area their home”.
Hospitality group Edyn opened the first London property under its new Cove brand in November 2021.
Housed within Canary Wharf’s Landmark Pinnacle skyscraper, the 162-key serviced apartment offers 72 studio and 90 one-bedroom apartments, 54 of which will include winter terraces.
Guests receive unlimited access to the building’s residential gym and members’ lounge, golf simulator and winter garden.
For our Tried and Tested review of the Cove Landmark Pinnacle, Canary Wharf (published in May 2022), see:
Apartment review: Cove Landmark Pinnacle, Canary Wharf
Marriott debuted its Westin brand in the UK capital in November 2021, with the opening of the Westin London City.
The hotel is located on the site of the redeveloped Queensbridge House on the North Bank of the River Thames, opposite the Tate Modern and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
Food and beverage outlets include all-day dining venue Mosaic, a champagne bar in partnership with Taittinger, and Hithe + Seek wine bar with panoramic views over the River Thames.
Other features include an indoor swimming pool, fitness centre, spa, business centre and 830sqm of events space including four meeting rooms and a Junior Ballroom.
For our Tried and Tested review of the Westin London City (published in February 2022), see:
Hotel review: The Westin London City
Located opposite Stratford International station, The Gantry London opened in November 2021 within an 18-storey building which “sports a delicate yet distinctive exterior frame formed by slim vertical fins reminiscent of railway lines”, and which “draws inspiration from New York’s famous Flatiron building, with its narrow triangular footprint”.
Facilities include 291 rooms featuring “copper and dark metal furnishings with natural wooden and velvety textures”, as well as first floor dining venue Union Social with cocktail bar and open kitchen.
The hotel sits above The Stratford Grocer and Co – a food market, deli and coffee shop – and also hosts a rooftop bar and restaurant on the property’s 18th floor.
Marriott opened a new-build Courtyard hotel within walking distance of London City airport in November 2021.
Located on Connaught Road (the A112) around a five-minute walk from the airport terminal, the Courtyard London City Airport is the first new hotel in the Docklands area since 2014.
The property features a business centre, bar and restaurant, three meeting spaces and a grab and go market concept with Starbucks coffee.
Staycity opened the third London property under its premium Wilde brand in February 2022.
Wilde Aparthotels by Staycity, London, Paddington is located off the A40 close to Merchant Square, and offers 249 studios and one-bedroom apartments, featuring kitchenettes with Smeg and Nespresso appliances, as well as Grohe rainfall showers and “Irish-inspired accessories and soft furnishings”.
Facilities include a lobby bar, breakfast station and lounge area, as well as an honesty pantry, fitness centre and laundry room.
The former Ace Hotel London on Shoreditch High Street reopened as One Hundred Shoreditch in March 2022, nearly two years after the property last welcomed guests.
The hotel closed in early 2020 shortly after the onset of Covid-19, and later that year it was confirmed that the property would no longer operate under the Ace Hotel brand.
Under its new guise the property offers 258 rooms and suites, as well as signature restaurant and wine bar Goddard and Gibbs, specialising in British seafood, and the Seed Library cocktail bar by renowned bartender Mr Lyan.
Other facilities include a rooftop bar and terrace, lobby bar and coffee shop, five meeting and events spaces, and The Workshop, a gallery and art space “showcasing global contemporary and urban print and street art”.
Hospitality firm Sonder opened The Henry, a 102-room property close to Hyde Park in April 2022.
A refurbishment of the former Henry VIII hotel, the property is located on Leinster Terrace, a short walk from Bayswater and Queensway underground stations and a 15-minute walk from Paddington.
For our Tried and Tested review of Sonder The Henry Hotel, London (published in June 2022), see:
Hotel review: Sonder The Henry Hotel, London
Boutique hotel Chateau Denmark opened its doors in April 2022, housed “across 16 characterful buildings in and around Denmark Street”.
The 55-key property features design by London-based Taylor Howes, imagining a time where “punk rock and vintage gothic meet modern psychedelia with a timeless grandeur”.
Accommodation options range from Session Rooms where guests can expect “gold-trimmed, graffitied signature beds”, to signature apartments include the 51 sqm ‘I Am Anarchy’ – a duplex mews house featuring “Johnny Rotten’s storied caricatures of his fellow bandmates, the Sex Pistols”,
The top floor of the building house the first London outlet for restaurant group Tattu, while additional venues will open later in 2022, including a lounge bar and basement club, a recording studio, and live events spaces ranging in capacity from 360 to 2,000 guests.
Inhabit Hotels opened its second London hotel in April 2022, housed within a series of mid-19th century townhouses on a tree-lined square near Lancaster Gate.
The property comprises 158 rooms, a meat-free restaurant and bar, lounge areas for socialising and working, a quiet library and a subterranean wellness area with treatment rooms, a fitness suite and yoga studio.
Interiors by Holland Harvey Architects and Caitlin Henderson Design fuse “contemporary Scandi inspiration and Eastern philosophical awareness with quintessentially British design”, and rooms feature a ‘phone lock-box’ in the bedside tables, designed to encourage screen-free time.
Not strictly speaking new hotels, but the Holiday Inn Stratford City and Staybridge Suites Stratford City were reflagged under two of Hyatt’s brands in April 2022.
The 225-room Hyatt Regency London Stratford and 127-room Hyatt House London Stratford form part of a mixed-use building within the Westfield Stratford City shopping centre close to Stratford station, with retail outlets on the ground floor, the reception of the Hyatt Regency on the third floor, and that of the Hyatt Houseon the 12th floor.
Facilities of the dual-hotel development include Elondi restaurant, offering a “locally sourced and seasonal East London inspired menu”, as well as a fitness centre and 295sqm of meeting and events space.
German-based The Amano Group opened its first international outpost in London in May 2022, with a property located in Covent Garden.
The hotel is located within a former 1980s office building, known as Drury House, on the corner of Russell Street and Drury Lane, and offers 141 rooms, a rooftop bar and terrace on the 7th floor, and a basement bar. The property will be joined by Penelope’s this autumn, a ground-floor restaurant which offers a fusion of Israeli and Spanish cuisine from the group’s culinary director Ronen Dovrat Bloch.
The 161-room Yotel London Shoreditch opened in June 2022, following a refurbishment and rebranding of the East London Hotel on Cambridge Heath Road.
Features include self-service stations, enabling guests to check-in “in under a minute”, as well as a bar, restaurant and co-working space which is accessible via the high street and hotel lobby.
Yotel London Shoreditch is located close to Bethnal Green tube station, and within walking distance of London Fields, Broadway Market and Columbia Road.
Hilton’s latest London hotel under its Curio Collection brand opened in July 2022, housed behind the Grade II listed Creed Court building on the corner of Ludgate Hill and Creed Lane.
The 145-room property features a ground-floor restaurant and bar, as well as a barista café, and six floors of rooms, some with views across to St Paul’s Cathedral, which is located around 100 metres from the hotel.
For our Tried and Tested review of Lost Property St Paul’s London (published in August 2022), see:
Hotel review: Lost Property St Paul’s London – Curio Collection by Hilton
The fourth London property under Dutch hotel brand Citizen M opened in July 2022, located on Vauxhall Bridge Road, a few minutes’ walk from Victoria train station.
Interiors were designed by Amsterdam-based Concrete, with furniture from Vitra, and rooms have king-sized beds, rain showers and large TVs. The hotel also features the all day dining Canteen M.
For our Tried and Tested review of Citizen M London Victoria Station (published in September 2022), see:
Hotel review: Citizen M London Victoria Station
Accor opened the first UK property under its midscale lifestyle brand Tribe in August 2022.
Tribe London Canary Wharf is located on Water Street, around five minutes’ walk from Canary Wharf Underground station, and features 320 rooms across three categories – 14sqm Tribe Comfort rooms with city views, 14sqm Tribe Comfort Atrium rooms overlooking the hotel’s atrium, and 21sqm Tribe Comfort XL corner rooms overlooking Wood Wharf.
Facilities include all day dining restaurant Feels Like June for “Europe-meets-West Coast” cuisine such as breakfast burritos and mezze platters, as well as a bar and 24-hour Grab and Go counter for barista coffee and ready-to-eat meals.
It’s been a long time coming, but PPHE Hotel Group is finally set to debut its Art’otel brand in London.
Business Traveller first reported on the 164-room property back in 2015, and it had originally been scheduled to open in 2019, but the hotel is now set to be unveiled in late 2022.
The property will feature interiors by Spanish artist and designer Jaime Hayon, who has drawn inspiration from both the building’s history and “future at the centre of a new cultural district and neighbourhood”.
Facilities will include a signature restaurant, as well as a rooftop swimming pool and bar.
The Hoxton is set to open its fourth hotel in London in December 2022, located in Shepherd’s Bush.
The 237-room hotel will be situated on the north end of Shepherd’s Bush Green, close to Shepherd’s Bush Market, Bush Hall and music venue Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
The Hoxton, Shepherd’s Bush will feature a large open lobby with vintage seating, a central wraparound bar and terrace offering cocktails and coffees, a standalone retail shop, and Thai-Americana all-day restaurant Chet’s.
The former Crowne Plaza London The City is set to reopen under Hyatt’s Regency brand in December 2022, following “an extensive refurbishment programme”.
The Grade II listed property is located on New Bridge Street just north of Blackfriars Bridge and Blackfriars station, with Hyatt stating that the hotel will offer an all-day New York style bistro and a specialty Chinese restaurant, as well as a cocktail bar with outdoor area, meeting spaces and a fitness centre.
Scheduled to open “in 2022”, the Broadwick Soho is the first London hotel designed by Martin Brudnizki, and is described as “your eccentric godmother’s Soho townhouse”, with Brudnizki taking inspiration “from the gritty glamour, but also eclectic and diverse history of Soho”.
Situated on the corner of Broadwick Street and Berwick Street, the hotel will offer 57 “residential-feeling” rooms including a penthouse and nine suites, with “many rooms offering private balconies overlooking the bustling streets”.
The hotel’s food and beverage concepts will be operated in partnership with Jamie Poulton and chef Ed Baines, founders of Randall and Aubin on nearby Brewer Street. There will be a street level Italian restaurant with terrace, and a rooftop cocktail bar with wrap around terrace.
The Facebook page for this hotly anticipated Raffles property – housed within the former Old War Office at the junction of Horse Guards Parade and Whitehall – currently states an opening date of 2023.
Raffles London at the OWO will offer 120 rooms and 85 branded residences, as well as extensive wellness facilities and 11 destination F&B venues including a rooftop restaurant and bar.
Completed in 1906, the seven-floor property served as the office of political and military leaders including Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George, Lord Kitchener, Herbert Asquith and T.E. Lawrence.
Accor said that the five-year renovation programme would see key features of the building restored, including hand-laid mosaic floors, oak panelling, chandeliers and a marble staircase.
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group will open its second London hotel in spring 2023.
Mandarin Oriental Mayfair is located on Hanover Square, with the building’s design by Rogers Stick Harbour and Partners. The property will include 50 rooms and suites designed by UK-based Studio Indigo, and there will also be 78 private residences.
Interior design will be led by Tokyo-based studio Curiosity, with a decor based on a concept of ‘a hub of nature and art’, and the hotel will be home to award-winning chef Akira Back’s first namesake restaurant in the UK, along with his A Bar Lounge concept.
On the leisure front, there will be a spa “focused on renewal and recalibration” with an indoor 25-metre swimming pool, sauna, vitality pool, relaxation room and bespoke treatments.
First announced in 2015, London’s first Peninsula hotel is currently scheduled to open in early 2023, in the capital’s Belgravia district.
The property will be housed on the site of a former 1960s office block overlooking Hyde Park Corner between Grosvenor Crescent and Halkin Street, and will feature 190 rooms as well as shops, bars, restaurants and a ballroom.
Design features will include a colonnade “linking to an internal ‘Palazzo-style’ courtyard”, and there will also be around 25 residential apartments with a separate spa, reception and entrance.
Hospitality group Edyn has announced plans to open the sixth London property under its design-led Locke aparthotels brand.
The firm has acquired the former NH Kensington hotel, situated on Cromwell Road around five minutes north of Earls Court Underground station.
The as-yet-unnamed property is set to be converted into a 121-unit aparthotel, with an opening date scheduled for June 2023.
Features will include a mixture of studio, one and two-bedroom open plan apartments, as well as a bar, restaurant, co-working and meeting space, and private gardens, while design will draw inspiration from “the iconic art deco style of Derry and Tom’s Department store and the golden age of Kensington”, with a “glamorous mid-century aesthetic”.
Six Senses Hotels, Resorts and Spas will open its first UK property in West London in 2023.
The 110-room Six Senses London will be located within the former Whiteleys department store in Bayswater.
Facilities will include a 20-metre swimming pool, indoor Padel court, fitness centre, steam room, sauna and Six Senses spa, alongside a bar and all-day dining restaurant with open kitchen and indoor and out door seating.
The 1,300 sqm ground floor will be inspired by the brand’s “connection to people and nature”, with the lobby featuring plants, textured fabrics, bespoke flooring, reclaimed wood furniture and upholstery in natural tones, while glass display cabinets will flank the walls.
Lean luxury brand Ruby Hotels will open a 153-room property in London’s Clerkenwell in summer 2023.
Ruby Stella will form part of a mixed-use development which will also feature offices and nine new-build affordable residential units.
The development will see a two-storey extension and private terraces added to the existing Victorian Ragged School building, with the offices scheduled to be completed in February 2023, followed by the hotel and residential units in July next year.
The Westbury hotel in London’s Mayfair is set to become a St Regis property, with an expected reopening date of 2023.
The hotel will be rebranded as The St Regis London following a £90 million transformation, with an additional eighth floor being added to the existing property.
Features will include 196 rooms and suites designed by Peter Newman-Earp of Morrison Design, with interiors by Richmond International.
An extension to the rear of the property will create “enhanced public areas”, and the building’s facade and drop-off area will be renovated. The Polo Bar will be retained, and there are plans for a signature restaurant, speakeasy jazz bar, fitness centre and spa.
Hyde Hotels has announced that its first European property will open in 2023, occupying the redeveloped 15 Old Bailey.
The seven-storey building – which dates back to 1874 – will feature 110 rooms, two restaurants and a speakeasy bar.
The Hyde brand forms part of Accor’s global lifestyle hotel partnership with UK-based developer Ennismore, which was announced in late 2020.
Dutch hotel group Citizen M is to open its fifth London hotel in 2023. The property will be located in the transformed Olympia London exhibition centre on Hammersmith Road, which is set to open in 2023 following a £1.3 billion regeneration led by Yoo Capital and Deutsche Finance International.
The mixed-use development will also feature a live music venue owned by entertainment company AEG, a 196-room Hyatt Regency property (see below) and conference centres.
Citizen M London Olympia will include 145 rooms, three meeting rooms, and a living room open to the public in the listed historic Apex room. Interiors will be designed by Amsterdam-based partner Concrete and will feature furniture from Vitra, one of Citizen M’s long-term collaborators.
Hyatt is set to open its first Park Hyatt property in the UK in late 2023, located in London’s Nine Elms area on the south bank of the River Thames.
The 203-room property will be located within R&F UK’s Nine Elms development, a mixed-use project which will also comprise 2,300 apartments and over 11,150 sqm of commercial space.
This will include the company’s One Thames City development, made up of premium residences, hotels, shops, a park and restaurants. The hotel will have a secure executive wing and event spaces, including a large ballroom, targeting both business and government travellers due to its proximity to the new US embassy.
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