Two small townhouses, each with a cocktail bar and neither with a spa. Artist Residence London, ten rooms with original art above its own restaurant, suits art lovers; The Zetter Marylebone, twenty-four rooms with no restaurant a minute from Oxford Street, suits shopping trips.
The insider oneTen rooms above a neighbourhood restaurant and an old pub cellar, in a Pimlico townhouse that is still independent.
££From about £350 a night
Choose Artist Residence London if
The catch
No lift, and the bedrooms are spread over three floors above the ground floor.
The intimate oneTwenty-four rooms in two listed Georgian townhouses off Oxford Street, with a cocktail parlour for a lobby and nothing else on site.
££From about £300 a night
Choose The Zetter Marylebone if
The catch
No restaurant, no spa, no gym and no pool, so dinner and everything else happens outside the building.
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The verdict
Two small townhouses, each with a cocktail bar and neither with a spa. Artist Residence London, ten rooms with original art above its own restaurant, suits art lovers; The Zetter Marylebone, twenty-four rooms with no restaurant a minute from Oxford Street, suits shopping trips.
Questions people ask
Two small townhouses, each with a cocktail bar and neither with a spa. Artist Residence London, ten rooms with original art above its own restaurant, suits art lovers; The Zetter Marylebone, twenty-four rooms with no restaurant a minute from Oxford Street, suits shopping trips.
Ten rooms, a bar in the old pub cellar and a quiet Pimlico street outside, at London townhouse money. It works if the house itself is what you came for. A ten-room house that spends everything on character and the ground floor and nothing on facilities. The rate is mid-range for central London and high for what you physically get.
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
Book the Deluxe King, treat the Parlour as your sitting room and plan dinner somewhere else. If you want facilities in the building, this is 24 rooms and a bar and nothing more. Twenty-four rooms, one public room and nothing else: no spa, no gym, no pool and no restaurant, on a Georgian street three minutes from Marble Arch. The money goes on the house and the people in it rather than on facilities.
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.