The catch at Claridge's

Claridge's has housed three starred restaurants and in the 2026 guide holds none. Davies and Brook closed at the end of 2021, Claridge's Restaurant closed in May 2026, and Dante Mayfair, the Greenwich Village bar and restaurant run by Linden Pride and Nathalie Hudson, took the room in June. The hotel's own page for it gives breakfast daily from 8am to 11am and all-day dining from noon to 9.30pm Sunday to Wednesday and to 10.30pm Thursday to Saturday, with shrimp cocktail, Carlingford oysters and a negroni list as the draw. It is a hotel restaurant, not a reason to cross London, and it is three months old.

The contrast is five to seven minutes away on foot. Hélène Darroze at The Connaught and the Lecture Room at Sketch each hold three stars in the 2026 guide on guide.michelin.com, and Sabor on Heddon Street holds one. Whatever you eat in the hotel, a discretionary 15 percent service charge goes on the bill; both breakfast menus say so.

The 35 square metre Superior faces the courtyard, and the hotel's own room pages make the picture wider than that. The Superior and the 40 square metre Mayfair Room are sold on the courtyard only. The 50 square metre Claridge's Room lists four outlooks, Davies Street, Courtyard, Brook's Mews and Brook Street, so a bigger rate does not buy you off it. The 60 square metre Claridge's Studio lists the internal courtyard among its views, and the 65 square metre Deluxe Junior Suite, the first suite on the ladder, faces the courtyard and nothing else. Guests report that side catches noise.

The categories the hotel sells without a courtyard option are the Mayfair Balcony Room at 45 square metres and the Claridge's Balcony Room at 55, each over Brook Street, Davies Street or Brook's Mews, and everything above the 65 square metre Deluxe Junior Suite, where every stated outlook is a street, the mews or the skyline. The hotel publishes no floor plan or floor numbers, and the Superior is the one room sold with a king bed only and no twin option.

Claridge's Spa is 7,000 square feet by the hotel's own June 2026 brochure, below the lobby, with seven treatment rooms on the spa page (the brochure says six), steam rooms, saunas, a Technogym fitness studio and a pool the hotel itself describes as an intimate, electrolyte-rich relaxation pool by André Fu. It publishes no length. Guests report it as small and the gym as modest for the rate, and the hotel's wording does not argue with them. The spa opens daily from 8am to 9pm and family-friendly swimming runs from 8am to 10am, so a child gets the pool for two hours a day and the rest of the day it is adults only.

Access to the spa, pool and sauna is included on every room category, which is the good news. Treatments are not: the brochure lists 60-minute treatments from 250 pounds and 90 minutes from 290 to 390, a personal training session at 150 and a cut and blow dry with Josh Wood's team at 350.

Breakfast is not on any room page's list of what a stay includes. The Foyer's July 2026 breakfast menu prices the English at 45 pounds, two Cacklebean eggs at 20, a breakfast croissant at 25 and pancakes at 24, before the 15 percent service charge; Dante's September menu is gentler, with a full English at 32 and scrambled eggs at 16. Afternoon tea in the Foyer is 95 pounds, 110 with Champagne and 125 with rosé, and from 3 November to 3 January it becomes a festive tea at 120 on weekdays and 130 at weekends.

The hotel publishes no rates beyond the dates you search, so this page carries no nightly price; treat the figure on our main entry as a band, not a quote. Drivers get no parking of the hotel's own: the directions page sends you to a nearby Parkbee car park. The helicopter transfer from the private jet terminals is reserved for The Octagon and higher categories.

This is a hotel with a children's menu in the Foyer and a firm set of rules everywhere else. The Painter's Room, the bar to sit in first, states on its own page that children are not permitted in the bar area; it opens Tuesday to Saturday from 4.30pm to midnight, so it is closed on Sunday and Monday. Claridge's Bar and The Fumoir, open from noon to 1am Monday to Saturday and to midnight on Sunday, admit only children who are resident at the hotel, with an adult, and only until 6pm. The pool, as above, is theirs from 8am to 10am.

The rooms follow the same pattern. The Superior and the Mayfair Room sleep two. The Claridge's Room and Claridge's Balcony Room sleep three, and from the Claridge's Studio upward the hotel's phrasing is up to three with an extra bed, so a family of four is looking at interconnecting rooms, available on request, or a two-bedroom suite.