The Beaumont Hotel

The Beaumont Hotel

The Beaumont Mayfair sits on Brown Hart Gardens in Mayfair, close enough to walk to Bond Street and St. Christopher's Place. It presents itself as an Art Deco modernist hotel with a boutique attitude rather than a big-brand shell, and with only 101 rooms across five floors it keeps that promise. One suite here is unlike anything else in Mayfair: ROOM, created with Sir Antony Gormley, a booking that gives the hotel a reason to choose it over its neighbours before price enters the conversation. Standard rooms run smaller but still carry bathrobes, minibars, laptop safes and soundproofing, while the junior and premier suites add space and, in some cases, a private terrace. Rosi handles dinner, Le Magritte pours the cocktails, and the Gatsby Room is kept for afternoon tea and champagne, so a night here rarely requires leaving the building. A gym, sauna, steam room and spa fill the gaps, and the concierge desk, working in English, French, German, Italian and Polish, will arrange the hotel's chauffeur-driven house car or a table at one of the city's most sought-after restaurants. Three private, soundproofed meeting rooms take groups of ten to sixty, which makes the hotel as workable for a small offsite as for a weekend. Dogs travel for a fee, a detail that will please some readers and rule the hotel out for others. The bill arrives with its own list of extras, a 150 GBP daily deposit, 40 GBP valet parking, and a 32 GBP charge per person for English breakfast, all worth checking before booking rather than after checkout. The Gormley suite is what stays with you, not the Art Deco trim. The Beaumont Mayfair pairs 101 Art Deco rooms in Mayfair with one thing no rival has: ROOM, a suite created with Sir Antony Gormley. Add a gym, spa and three soundproofed meeting rooms, and it suits business trips and weekends alike, though the deposit and valet fees add up.