Whether traveling for business or leisure, London retains an magnetic pull in every season.
All tastes are catered to in famously cosmopolitan London, a truism that extends to its exceptional hotel inventory. At the highest end of the scale, its most extravagant luxury properties are expert in impressing heads of state, VVIPs, and celebrities. Of course, those hard-to-impress dignitaries expect exceptional signature suites, and this city delivers handsomely.
Here are 10 of London’s very best hotel suites.
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The Skyline Penthouse at Four Seasons Hotel London at Tower Bridge
Better understood as a residence than a hotel suite, this gigantic four-bedroom penthouse makes an immediate impact with its postcard views of Tower Bridge and the millennium-old Tower of London, not to mention integrated facilities that run from a private gym and garden to a wraparound roof terrace and integrated staff quarters. But really it’s all the extra steps that the team makes to treat guests like absolute VIPs that sets this space apart. Residents pretty much have the run of the property, with rates covering the option to privatise the hotel’s pool at night, four hour-long spa treatments per day and complimentary daily dining experiences at any of the hotel’s restaurants (where two-Michelin-starred French favourite comes highly recommended).
The stats: 843sqm; four bedrooms, sleeps nine;
Price from £50,000 per night
The Beaumont’s ROOM
You’ll be hard pressed to find a hotel suite like ROOM anywhere else in London, or anywhere else in the world. Best understood as an inhabitable artwork, the suite owes its unlikely existence to Westminster Council who ruled that the hotel must incorporate a piece of public art before its construction would be approved. Enlisted to help, the English sculptor Antony Gormley conceived a giant crouching cuboid figure, three storeys tall, that would sit on the corner of the building.
That curious body now contains ROOM’s bedroom, an austere, oak-panelled chamber that is both confronting and contemplative. After parting an ink-black curtain, couples ascend to this sanctuary via a bone-white marble staircase. While going to bed feels almost ceremonial, conventional comforts and the hotel’s hallmark art deco design await in the suite’s handsome living room. Beyond ROOM’s walls, The Beaumont is tucked discreetly within an elegant square but stands minutes from the best of Mayfair. Make time for dinner at the hotel’s glossy Colony Grill restaurant, where the nostalgia-inducing ice-cream sundae – you’re given a notepad to tick off all your desired sauces and toppings – remains a firm favourite.
The stats: 69sqm; one bedroom, sleeps two;
Price from £1,352 per night
The Royal Penthouse at Corinthia London
Movie fans who check into the Corinthia’s Royal Penthouse might find the setting strangely familiar. With cinematic views of the Thames and the London Eye, its terrace is frequently hired by Hollywood studios as an interview and photoshoot setting for A-list stars in town for premieres and press junkets. (Plenty of mega-watt celebrities have stayed the night too, Beyonce and Jay-Z among them.) Of course, every guest who splurges on a stay here is treated like royalty. With its own private lift facilitating discreet access, the two-storey suite has its own spa suite, kitchen, dining room and acres of space for entertaining. A popular spot for civilised parties, it’s in particularly high demand on New Year’s Eve given London’s official fireworks display takes place right across the water.
The stats: 465sqm; two bedrooms, sleeps four;
Price from £18,000 per night
The Royal Suite at The Lanesborough
From its origins as an 18th-century manor house to its turn as a bustling hospital, the building that houses The Lanesborough lived many lives before its 1991 conversion into a luxury hotel. Now part of the Oetker Collection, this spruce property on Hyde Park Corner feels like it’s been a Knightsbridge fixture forever. You sense that in its palatial Royal Suite, where 23-carat-gold shines from over 500 bespoke ceiling moulds in the living room and weighty old oil portraits hang from sky-blue walls. Of course, modern touches still feature, but they’re discreet: when not in use, a TV is hidden behind a painting. That lovely time capsule-like quality makes it feel like you’ve temporarily entered a lost realm of British history.
The stats: 165sqm; one bedroom, sleeps two;
Price from £15,000 per night
The Granville Suite at Raffles London at The OWO
It supposedly cost north of £1 billion to convert London’s Old War Office into a hotel and residences, an investment that perhaps contributed to Raffles London launching in 2023 with some of the priciest starting rates to be found in the city. Still, guests who do splash out on one of the Whitehall hotel’s five Heritage Suites, minutes from Downing Street and the Houses of Parliament, will have the privilege of bedding down in some of the most distinctive and historically significant hotel rooms in the city. Named after Winston Churchill’s favourite spy, the wood-panelled Granville Suite looks remarkable, with its original oak casement windows, imposing arched ceilings and two grand fireplaces that are studded with lapis lazuli and antique marble details. Slightly more incongruously, the bathroom’s centrepiece is a glitzy, golden freestanding brass bathtub. It nicely evokes the hotel’s mix of meticulously restored period details and modern additions, including a swish Guerlain spa and glamorous subterranean swimming pool.
The stats: 162sqm; one bedroom, sleeps two;
Price from £20,000 per night
The Penthouse at Claridge’s
In operation for well over a century, Claridge’s proved yet again that it never stops innovating when it commenced a top-to-bottom renovation that resulted in the construction of an underground pool and spa and the introduction of new floors above the pre-existing historic hotel. Seamlessly integrated, the hotel’s colossal new penthouse suite occupies the entire top storey and provides too many amenities to mention. Chief among them, though, is its ‘lake’ – a shallow pond that extends across the rooftop – and private nine-metre lap pool, a total rarity in this city. With that precedent set, perhaps it goes without saying that guests also have a private gym, a standalone ‘piano pavilion’ that houses its own Steinway grand and a custom-made rotating sofa that moves automatically to best capture the sun.
The stats: 1,100sqm; four bedrooms, sleeps eight;
Price from £60,000 per night
Shangri-La Suite at Shangri-La The Shard, London
There’s no question that the Shangri-La’s headline suite offers the most majestic view of any hotel room in London. On the 39th floor of the riverside Shard skyscraper, its entirely unobstructed 270-degree panorama extends from the towers of Canary Wharf in the east and along the curve of the Thames towards the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral and on to the London Eye out west, with so many centuries of history and the present-day city’s whirl of activity all delightfully on show below. Given that backdrop, guests typically have dinner ‘at home’. With a discreet kitchenette and 10-person dining table, the suite easily accommodates parties for sunset suppers and its almost majlis-like living area is perfect for relaxed socialising post-dessert. In the bedroom, the main draw, apart from those showstopper views, is the gargantuan bed draped in extra-plush, 1,000-threadcount sheets.
The stats: 188sqm; one bedroom, sleeps two;
Prices from £10,000 per night
Manor House Suite at Rosewood London
Some 10 years after its inauguration, the Manor House Suite is a real-life proof point for the adage that fashions fade but good taste never falls out of style. Designed by long-term Rosewood collaborator Tony Chi, finished in restful tones of chocolate and cappuccino and with the feel of a well-to-do gentlemen’s club, it’s as comfortable and elegant as a Savile Row suit. Jampacked with character, its assorted curios – what seems to be an ostrich egg here, knobbly copper vases there – suggest you’re temporarily housesitting perhaps for a well-heeled British Museum art curator (the landmark is just around the corner from this Holborn hotel). In the bathroom, an immense spherical tub, carved from a single block of Carrara marble, is a stunner.
The stats: 208sqm; one bedroom, sleeps three;
Prices from £14,000 per night
The Green Park Penthouse at 1 Hotel Mayfair
The emerging 1 Hotels hospitality group likes to emphasise its commitment to sustainability so it’s little surprise that the penthouse at 1 Hotel Mayfair at least subliminally references that facet of the brand’s identity. Its earthy, elemental interiors make liberal use of salvaged wood and judiciously sourced leathers; pops of shrubbery and mossy colour palettes reference Green Park, more or less next door and visible from the wraparound terrace. The suite’s epicentre – and it’s truly spectacular – is its double-height living room. Floor-to-ceiling windows ensure the room is suffused with light on sunny days (which do occasionally occur in London); a double-sided fireplace and the golden glow of 70 hand-blown pendant lights keep things cosy should conditions turn gloomy. And there’s plenty to do here whatever the weather. Reading shelves are stocked with diverting books on nature; in-suite spa treatments are available, and private dining experiences can be facilitated by the hotel’s well-regarded Dovetale restaurant.
The stats: 274sqm; one bedroom, sleeps two;
Prices from £15,000 per night
The Peninsula Suite at The Peninsula London
Especially popular with families, space abounds in The Peninsula London’s signature suite. Already vast at 470sqm, it can be connected to seven adjoining rooms to create a 1,300sqm abode – a footprint the property states is the largest private hotel accommodation available in London. Still, the penthouse proper is big enough to get lost in, and contains plenty of diversions, not least its 13-seater cinema and living room with baby grand piano. Just as compelling are the no-expense-spared amenities on hand within the rest of this billion-pound property. The spa is top tier and its pool is exceptional; with a model Concorde suspended from the ceiling, two-Michelin-starred rooftop restaurant Brooklands is emerging as one of the most distinctive hotel restaurants in the city.
The stats: 470sqm; one bedroom, sleeps two;
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