Best luxury hotels in

United Kingdom

Part of Europe

15 properties in our curated United Kingdom collection — ranked by Fat Score and distilled from signals across luxury travel communities, editorial publications, and verified guest reviews.

Fat Score17.1/20avg. score

At the top of our United Kingdom list sits The Lanesborough with a Fat Score of 18/20. A Regency-style Oetker Collection hotel in Knightsbridge, London, facing Hyde Park, with a basement wellness centre and hydrotherapy pool.

The Lanesborough — London, United Kingdom

Oetker Collection

The Lanesborough

London, United Kingdom

The case for The Lanesborough is the people, not the building, though the building does its part too. A concierge lent his own tie, several fresh off their own hangers, to a guest short one for a…

Belmond The Cadogan — London, United Kingdom

Belmond

Belmond The Cadogan

London, United Kingdom

Sixty-seven keys, and it behaves like a house with sixty-seven keys: staff learn your name by the first night, and the small gestures pile up fast. One couple mentioned an Arsenal game in passing at…

Claridge's — London, United Kingdom

Maybourne

Claridge's

London, United Kingdom

Claridge's is the London hotel people mean when they say a place still feels run by humans, not a system. A tea server named Marius brought Nutella for a granddaughter's scones when the table only had…

The Connaught — London, United Kingdom

Maybourne

The Connaught

London, United Kingdom

The Connaught costs a genuine splurge, and what arrives for it is one of the most complete hotel experiences in London: a £30-plus martini poured tableside from a trolley, breakfast at Jean-Georges,…

COMO The Halkin — London, United Kingdom

Como

COMO The Halkin

London, United Kingdom

Pammy Liu comes up more than anyone else in the stack of reviews on this place, and for good reason: one traveller missed a flight entirely and she rebooked the room on the spot, no fuss, no charge…

The Berkeley — London, United Kingdom

Maybourne

The Berkeley

London, United Kingdom

Doorman after doorman turns up by name across these reviews: Mohamed and Danny at the front door, Waleed finding a junior suite before check-in and sending up coffee while the room was finished, Sofie…

The Peninsula London — London, United Kingdom

The Peninsula

The Peninsula London

London, United Kingdom

The Peninsula London cost a billion pounds to build, and it shows the moment you open the door on a base Deluxe or Premier room: walk-in closets, double-sink bathrooms with Toto washlets, and a…

The Emory — London, United Kingdom

Maybourne

The Emory

London, United Kingdom

The Emory is Maybourne's one real departure from the Claridge's/Connaught script: Richard Rogers' glass box across from Hyde Park, 61 keys, all-suite, barely a lobby, sharing a spa and rooftop with…

Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane — London, United Kingdom

Four Seasons

Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane

London, United Kingdom

What you're paying for at Park Lane isn't drama, it's competence. Andrei's team remembered a diaper pail request without being asked twice; Amanda in events kept a full family baptism running smoothly…

Four Seasons Hotel London at Tower Bridge — London, United Kingdom

Four Seasons

Four Seasons Hotel London at Tower Bridge

London, United Kingdom

Edwin Cooper's 1922 Port of London Authority headquarters at Ten Trinity Square is now a Four Seasons, and the building does most of the convincing before a single staff member says hello: five-metre…

COMO Metropolitan London — London, United Kingdom

Como

COMO Metropolitan London

London, United Kingdom

What you notice reading through this hotel's reviews isn't the marble or the Nobu downstairs, it's how often specific staff turn up by name. Ali the doorman comes up constantly, from a Moroccan guest…

Mandarin Oriental, London (Hyde Park) — London, United Kingdom

Mandarin Oriental

Mandarin Oriental, London (Hyde Park)

London, United Kingdom

Door attendants Joaquin and Graham, receptionists Hugo, Ruby and Georgi, breakfast servers Mark and Sherif, bartender Claire: these names show up because people keep singling them out, not because…

Rosewood London — London, United Kingdom

Rosewood

Rosewood London

London, United Kingdom

People come back from this hotel talking about the same handful of things: a table quietly repositioned at afternoon tea so an immunocompromised guest wasn't jostled, a birthday cake produced without…

Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, London — London, United Kingdom

Mandarin Oriental

Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, London

London, United Kingdom

This is the Mandarin Oriental where guests write down staff first names instead of just calling the service "great": Thomas Kong on the front desk, Helmut Roessler running the floor, Georgie Beauchamp…

The Chancery Rosewood London — London, United Kingdom

Rosewood

The Chancery Rosewood London

London, United Kingdom

The Chancery took the old US Embassy on Grosvenor Square, a brutalist Portland stone block Mayfair had learned to look past, and turned it into the most architecturally confident hotel London has…