Where the city slows down and the stay takes over.
Quiet Hotels
Calmer stays and a slower pace
Soho
Restaurants, music and central London after dark
Romantic Hotels
Softer light and more considered spaces
Three hotels chosen for the quality of their wellness spaces and the way the whole stay feels different because of it.
A Lutyens bank in the City of London with one of Europe’s largest hammams in its basement and a 20 metre pool ringed by marble columns below.
The spa sits beneath the old banking hall in what were originally the bank’s lower floors. The 20 metre pool is lined with Veria honed marble and ringed by columns that echo the building above. The hammam uses pink and oriental white marble and is one of the largest in Europe. Sauna, steam room and a full treatment menu including osteopathy, LED light therapy and de Mamiel facials complete the offer. The scale of the building gives the spa a grandeur that most London hotel spas never get close to.
Longer city stays, wellness weekends and travellers who want a spa with real architectural weight behind it.
A Warren Platner building on the South Bank that spent forty years as offices before Tom Dixon got hold of it.
Warren Platner designed the Sea Containers building in 1974 as a hotel, but the 1970s recession turned it into offices instead. It took until 2014 for the building to become what it was always meant to be. Tom Dixon’s interiors take their cues from 1920s transatlantic cruise liners, copper tones, nautical curves and porthole mirrors running through the lobby and 359 rooms. Agua Spa sits below, with organic Hedgerow treatments made in small batches from British wild hedgerows, steam rooms and rain showers. Lyaness on the ground floor is one of the better bars in London.
A Regent Street landmark since 1865, with David Chipperfield’s Carrara marble spa running three floors beneath it.
The Cafe Royal has been on Regent Street since 1865, a place Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales all passed through. The Akasha spa sits on three floors beneath it, designed by David Chipperfield with a spare, minimalist hand that makes the marble feel ancient and contemporary at once. An 18 metre lap pool, a private Carrara marble hammam, London’s first Watsu pool, a Finnish sauna in solid hemlock and nine treatment rooms sit below the buzz of Regent Street. The contrast between what is above and what is below is part of the point.
Special occasion wellness stays, longer weekends and travellers who want a spa that feels as considered as the hotel above it.
Quiet Hotels
Calmer stays and a slower pace
Romantic Hotels
Softer light and more considered spaces
Soho
Restaurants, music and central London after dark
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