3 Best Boutique Hotels in London
Bloomsbury

Charlotte Street Hotel

Enter Charlotte Street, a 21st century reinvention of the perfect Bloomsbury London pad. This is not a design hotel, all blank white walls and chrome trim — rather, it's early twentieth-century England.This building, once a pharmacy, today sports interiors of which the Bloomsberries would have no doubt approved; these spaces are light, airy and full of wit, with curlicued wallpaper, four-poster beds and brightly colored vases. In the drawing rooms, paintings by Bell, Grant, and Roger Fry brighten the walls. There's even a movie house that seats 67 in lipstick red leather cushions amidst pinstriped walls. More...

Rosewood London

Bloomsbury

One can't help but feel this classic Edwardian monument, on High Holborn in the part of London between the City and the West End that we're apparently meant to start calling Midtown, is more classic luxury than boutique hotel but we'll include it nevertheless. While the Belle Époque edifice remains in fine shape — there's a quarry's worth of marble in there — the old insurance-company interiors have been thoroughly reimagined by Tony Chi, of much Park Hyatt fame. The result is grand, confidently understated, somehow both contemporary and historically aware, somehow both quintessentially London and invitingly cosmopolitan. More...

The Bloomsbury

This is by no means the most outré boutique hotel you'll ever experience, but it's an intensely localized experience. Much of that is thanks to an extremely sensitive renovation, which leaves the building looking more or less as its architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens, must have left it — give or take the occasional fitness center or conference room. The rooms and suites, of course, augment their Georgian character with all the necessary modern conveniences, from free wi-fi to Nespresso coffee makers to the spa-like bathrooms. Dalloway Terrace, the restaurant, serves upscale British fare made with suitably local and fresh British ingredients. More...