The Zetter Marylebone is a pair of Georgian townhouses with a cocktail parlour and staff who learn your name, close to Oxford Street, for couples and shopping trips; The Pilgrm, much cheaper, pairs small, fan-cooled rooms with the Heathrow Express two minutes away, for solo travellers and short stops.
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.
The smart moneyTwo minutes from Paddington, in Victorian townhouses, with the front desk replaced by a café and the savings put into the rooms.
£From about £184 a night
Choose The Pilgrm if
The catch
No air conditioning anywhere, only fans, which tells in a heatwave.
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The verdict
The Zetter Marylebone is a pair of Georgian townhouses with a cocktail parlour and staff who learn your name, close to Oxford Street, for couples and shopping trips; The Pilgrm, much cheaper, pairs small, fan-cooled rooms with the Heathrow Express two minutes away, for solo travellers and short stops.
Questions people ask
The Zetter Marylebone is a pair of Georgian townhouses with a cocktail parlour and staff who learn your name, close to Oxford Street, for couples and shopping trips; The Pilgrm, much cheaper, pairs small, fan-cooled rooms with the Heathrow Express two minutes away, for solo travellers and short stops.
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.
The design budget went into the building here, and the savings came off the rate. Book a Comfy, ask for the back of the house, and accept that the room is for sleeping. Design-led and deliberately stripped back: the money went into the building, the beds and the salvage, and came off the rate and off the facilities. A city base rather than somewhere to spend the day, in a Victorian house that could not be anywhere but London.
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.