Claridge's

Claridge's is a five-star art deco hotel in Mayfair, dating from 1856 and a three-minute walk from Bond Street tube station and the shops of Oxford Street. Rooms offer street or courtyard views, free Wi-Fi and flat-screen TVs; studios and suites add living areas and personal butlers, and some upgraded suites feature a grand piano, a marble fireplace or a four-poster bed.

The hotel's spa holds seven treatment rooms with private bathrooms, steam rooms, saunas, a fitness studio and a relaxation pool designed by André Fu. Dining runs from Dante Mayfair, a New York cocktail-bar import founded in Greenwich Village in 1915, to the Reading Room's afternoon tea and the 1930s Fumoir cocktail lounge.

It suits guests comparing Mayfair's grand hotels who want period architecture, a resident spa and butler service rather than a newer build.