Sea Containers London fills the south wing of Sea Containers House, the block Warren Platner designed in 1974 as a hotel and which opened in 1978 as offices instead. A refit begun in 2011 put it back to its first purpose. It opened on 30 September 2014 as Mondrian London, with interiors by Tom Dixon's Design Research Studio, and in January 2019 Lore Group took it on and renamed it after the building. Jacu Strauss worked on that original scheme at Dixon's studio and is now Lore's creative director, so the hotel is being revised by one of the people who drew it.
There are 354 rooms and suites, 57 of them suites, and the line that matters is which way you face. Standard, Superior, Superior Double Double, Superior Patio, Studio and the One Bedroom Suite are all filed as city view, looking inland. The river side is the Riverview Deluxe, Riverview Deluxe Double Double, Riverview Studio Suite, Riverview One Bedroom Suite, Riverview Balcony Suite and the Thames Apartment, through wall-to-wall glass. A Standard is 29 sqm, a Riverview Deluxe 32, and the Riverview Studio Suite added in spring 2026 is also 32, so paying up there buys the river and the layout, not square metres. The ship idea runs through the public rooms, and the Cabin Suites are themed Edwardian, Art Deco, Mid-Century and Dynasty.
Gordon Ramsay at Sea Containers opened on 1 September 2026 in the old riverside dining room, a Lore Group partnership with Gordon Ramsay Restaurants designed by Strauss in the reds of Blackfriars Bridge. It runs all day, British produce with a seafood lean, Beef Wellington and Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips among the group classics, and the River Terrace sits right on the water with St Paul's to the east. Lyaness is the other draw, Ryan Chetiyawardana's bar, the first to take a 3 PIN award from The Pinnacle Guide. 12th Knot is the rooftop. agua spa runs on level -2 with treatment rooms, steam rooms and agua Studio for yoga and Thai massage, and Curzon Sea Containers is a 56-seat screening room open Friday to Sunday.
The compromises are real. There is no swimming pool anywhere in the building. The entry rooms face the city, and recent feedback keeps calling the cheapest of them small and dark for a London rate, while air-conditioning hum and thin walls come up often enough to plan around. At 354 keys this is a busy house, and the bars pull in plenty of non-residents. What you buy for accepting that is a building you can spend a whole evening in without ordering a car, with the Thames Path at the door. It suits anyone who wants dinner, drinks, a film and a spa hour at one address.
