London Hotels

• Set in the lively Bond Street shopping area, the Westbury Mayfair is 1 block from Savile Row, and 1 mile from Buckingham Palace.
  
  
• Each of the 247 soundproofed rooms has high-speed Internet access, climate control, and framed Matisse prints.
  
  
• Built in 1955, this updated seven-story hotel has a fine-dining restaurant, fitness center, and shopping discounts for guests.
  
  

GENERAL INFORMATION:
What to expect: This hotel exemplifies a very British combination of reserve and attention to detail. The marble floors and fireplace, leather armchairs, Rococo mirrors, and chandeliers create an atmosphere that is refined, but not overly lavish. Although busy with fashionably clad executives and vacationers, a sense of calm prevails throughout the lobby, restaurants, and intimate hallways.

Amenity highlights: Centrally located in the popular Bond Street shopping district, the Westbury Mayfair has an arranged discount for guests with many UK and international designer stores. The fitness center offers a variety of machines—rowing, running, step, ski—and provides changing rooms, showers, and steam rooms. The business center has fax and photocopying facilities.

Insider tip: One block south is the Burlington Arcade, commissioned by Lord Cavendish in 1818. Little altered from its original appearance, the arcade features a variety of jewelers, boutiques, and antique sellers. The traditional "Beadle" guard—clad in Edwardian dress—ensures that a sense of courtesy and decorum is maintained within.

PROPERTY AMENITIES:
Less than 1 half-block from Bond Street, Westbury Mayfair Hotel has an arranged discount for guests with a variety of local shops. Climate-controlled throughout, the hotel features 24-hour room service, a fitness center, and currency exchange.

ROOMS:
Westbury Mayfair Hotel, London, has 249 rooms decorated in subtle shades of sage green and crimson, or pale blue and cream. Decor features framed Matisse replicas, upholstered headboards, armchairs, and leather-topped tables. Tiled bathrooms feature tub/shower combinations, shaving/makeup mirrors, phones, and speakers connected to the TV. The desks have UK-, US-, and European-style electrical sockets. High-speed Internet access is available for a fee.

DINING:
The Restaurant at the Westbury Mayfair - In keeping with the decor of the lobby, the hotel's fine-dining restaurant has walnut paneling, a large serpentine marble fireplace, and bookcases loaded with books, figurines, and whiskey decanters. Champagne-colored, Queen Anne-style chairs are positioned around generously sized round tables. The cuisine is modern British and includes a variety of seafood dishes. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served during the week, with dinner-only on weekends.

The Lounge - In the Lounge, breakfast is served in the morning, and traditional tea in the afternoon, with drinks and a changing menu of light snacks available throughout the day. Illuminated neoclassical columns dominate the room, and the salmon-pink walls are bedecked in vividly colored photographs of fashion models, in keeping with the hotel's Bond Street location. Tartan wing chairs and fresh flowers add hits of color throughout.

The Polo Bar - Deep red walls and tartan upholstered chairs add to the rich color scheme of the Polo Bar. The green, purple, and red plaid carpet, mahogany furnishings, and emerald-colored wing chairs lend an air of a private club, furthered by a mural of a polo match, and wall-mounted polo mallets. Live entertainment is often featured in the piano area, and light snacks can be ordered from the Lounge menu. The bar has an extensive cocktail list. Open from noon until the early hours.