Two small central houses with no restaurant, no spa and no gym, at rates that land in much the same place. Hazlitt's if you want a 1718 Soho house with sloping floors and four-posters and every dinner out of the front door, The Zetter Marylebone if you want twenty-four rooms and a cocktail parlour for a lobby, a minute off Oxford Street.
The classicA 1718 Soho townhouse hotel that refuses to be updated: four-posters, sloping floors, breakfast at your door and no restaurant.
€€From about £305 a night
Choose Hazlitt's if
The catch
Steep stairs and floors that slant, and the hotel publishes nothing about lifts. Listings disagree on whether there is one at all, so plan for stairs.
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 central houses with no restaurant, no spa and no gym, at rates that land in much the same place. Hazlitt's if you want a 1718 Soho house with sloping floors and four-posters and every dinner out of the front door, The Zetter Marylebone if you want twenty-four rooms and a cocktail parlour for a lobby, a minute off Oxford Street.
Questions people ask
Two small central houses with no restaurant, no spa and no gym, at rates that land in much the same place. Hazlitt's if you want a 1718 Soho house with sloping floors and four-posters and every dinner out of the front door, The Zetter Marylebone if you want twenty-four rooms and a cocktail parlour for a lobby, a minute off Oxford Street.
Hazlitt's suits people who want the 18th century left roughly as it was found, stairs and all. Take a Superior Double, plan every dinner outside the front door, and let Soho do the rest. A small, old, deliberately unmodernised house in the middle of Soho, where character is the entire proposition. Everything a modern hotel would add, a restaurant, a spa, lifts in the staircases, has been left out or left unmentioned.
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.