We’re huge fans of staycationing in our own city, checking in for a cheeky night of luxury or finding a cheap and cheerful joint when the family is in town
And even if you’re not staying, London’s hotels are increasingly home to the city’s best restaurants so it’s worth having them on your radar. Here’s the most exciting London hotel openings for 2025, including a big ticket Mayfair opening (with the restaurants to match) and a a UK debut from one of our fave international hotel groups. Get these on your list pronto.
The Newman
The debut hotel from hospo management company Kinsfolk & Co, The Newman will be opening its doors on its namesake street in Fitzrovia in the summer. There’ll be 81 rooms and suites, including the four-bedroom rooftop floor with a private terrace that can be booked out as a whole. One of the hotel’s other floors will house a spa, complete with a gym, a meditation studio, a hydrotherapy pool, a salt therapy room and treatment cabins, plus it’ll be home to Brasserie Adeline (a European-inspired, all-day restaurant) and Gambit (an underground cocktail bar). Opens: summer 2025
Chancery Rosewood
After the Americans swapped Mayfair for Nine Elms, the former US Embassy on Grovesnor Square is getting a new lease of life as a hotel. Rosewood Hotel & Resorts, whose other London property is home to Holborn Dining Room, is taking charge of the site and turning it into The Chancery Rosewood. The building itself is Grade-II listed so the exterior being adapted by architect Sir David Chipperfield rather than being changed too much. Inside it will look very different, with 139 rooms and suites designed by Joseph Dirand (apparently the vibe is Art Deco mixed with British gentlemen’s club), a 750-person capacity ballroom, a wellness facility, five shops and a variety of formal and casual restaurants, including Richard Caring’s version of Le Caprice and a London outpost of NYC fave Carbone. Opens: 2025
Six Senses London
£1 billion is being spent on the redevelopment of the old Whiteleys shopping centre, which opened in Bayswater in 1911 and was one the city’s first department stores. Now the former shopping centre is being transformed into The Whiteley, a luxury development featuring a Six Senses hotel (the first in the UK) with 110 rooms and 14 residencies, a lobby bar and lounge, an all-day dining restaurant and a Six Senses spa, along with a wellness centre and 20-metre pool. Opens: 2025
Ergon House
Though it’s expanding in the hotel market with Ergon House locations, the Ergon brand started life as a food-focused operation showcasing artisanal Mediterranean produce. The company boasts over 20 stores across Greece, Cyprus and the Middle East, adding Ergon House in Athens to its portfolio in 2019 (it also has a beach club in Chalkidiki). The Athens hotel is set up a bit like a Greek version of Eataly – the Agora on the ground floor features greengrocers, butchers, bakers, fishmongers and a deli – with rooms above the marketplace. Now Ergon House is coming to London, taking over a heritage-listed building on the corner of King Street and Garrick Street in Covent Garden. Just as in Athens, the hotel will feature an Agora marketplace filled with the best farm-to-table produce as well as a rooftop restaurant with a terrace, a fitness centre, and 20 bedrooms. Opens: 2025
St. Regis London
Marriot is bringing the St. Regis brand to London, redoing the old Westbury hotel in Mayfair and turning it into the St. Regis London. The £90 million redevelopment has included adding an eighth floor and extending the rear of the property, taking it to 196 bedrooms and suites. The Polo Bar, designed for the Phipps family who created the Westbury, is staying put and it’ll be joined by a restaurant, a speakeasy jazz bar, a spa and a fitness centre. Opens: 2025
Cambridge House
Grade I-listed townhouse and Georgian mansion Cambridge House in Mayfair, the former home of Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, the Duke of Cambridge and Lord Cholmondeley, and the former site of the Naval and Military Club, is being turned into an Auberge Resorts Collection hotel. The 102-bedroom property (part of the Reuben Brothers’ £1 billion regeneration of 1.3 acres of the Piccadilly Estate) will also feature a private members’ club, a brasserie restaurant, and a double level spa with several hydrotherapy facilities, two heated pools, seven treatment rooms and a gym. Opens: late 2025
The Other House Covent Garden
Hotel and resident’s club The Other House, which already has a location in South Kensington, is opening a second London site close to the Covent Garden piazza at the end of 2025. It’ll have 146 rooms and Club Flats, which come with fully-equipped kitchenettes and living spaces, a private members’ club, and wellness facilities including a gym, a pool, a sound bath and treatment rooms. The Covent Garden property will also be home to outposts of all-day brasserie The Other Kitchen and cocktail bar Owl & Monkey, with exclusive bar The Peacock Lounge on the roof. Opens: late 2025
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