Haymarket Hotel

Rates from GBP 250

Address Haymarket Hotel, 1 Suffolk Place, London, England, United Kingdom SW1Y 4BP
Telephone Bookings : UK Reservations 0845 227 0141
Rooms: 50 rooms, including 23 suites.

 

Recommended by Mr and Mrs Smith
Hotlists: Intimate City Chic, Design Hotels in Barcelona, City Hotels with Cool Pools, Destination: London, Exciting new hotels
Awards: "Hot List," Conde Nast 07; "Coolest New Hotels in the World," Conde Nast Traveller 07

Why stay at Haymarket Hotel?

Come for:
The townhouse, like a super-suite
Cocktail parties in the Shooting Gallery
Drinks poolside in the beautifully lit pool room

Not suitable for:
Hopeless cases - what's not to love?

Eating in:
Modern Northern Italian is served up in Brumus restaurant, which is cocooned in patterned wallpaper; the idiosyncratic decor may not be to everyone's taste but Kit Kemp fans will love it

Press quotes

“The Haymarket feels like an expensively designed stage set for an upscale hotel.” The New York Times 07

“Kit Kemp has rewritten the rule book of conventional taste by juxtaposing objects in a clash of colours, fabrics, styles, origins and periods. It should jar, but somehow it works: the harmony is in the quality, which extends to the friendly service provided by the staff.” The Independent 06

The Hotel Writes

The hotel is situated on the corner of Haymarket and Suffolk Place in the heart of the theatre district next door to the famous Haymarket Theatre Royal. It is surrounded by some of London's best restaurants and bars and is perfect for Mayfair, Regent Street and Jermyn Street shopping. Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery are just around the corner - St.James's Park is a short walk. The hotel is within easy reach of the city's financial centre.

The hotels ground floor is a stunning series of spacious rooms, each with its own individual look and style. The lobby is a beautiful combination of grey oak and original British art by sculpture Tony Cragg and painter John Virtue.

The drawing room and conservatory are stylish, comfortable rooms with a French sandstone fireplace and honour bar. They are for the exclusive use of residents and their guests.

There are 50 beautiful bedrooms and suites as well as an exclusive townhouse. All rooms are spacious and sumptuous, designed in a contemporary English style, each with its own completely individual look and feel. They have a large writing desk with two line phone and voice mail, high speed internet access, mini bar and personal safe. Bathrooms are beautifully designed in granite, glass and oak with double basins, separate showers and TV's. There are 3 stunning one and two bedroom suites as well as a 5 bedroom townhouse with a private and hotel entrance and complete access to all hotel services and facilities.

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Angela Moore's Review of Haymarket Hotel

A new hotel by Kit Kemp of Firmdale Hotels is always a big, exciting event for us hopeless hotelophiles. The Haymarket is one of London’s hottest boutique hotels. It’s smaller than its predecessor Firmdale, the Soho Hotel , which has 90 rooms to the Haymarket’s 50. It also feels less trendy-hip and more stylish-funky.

There are elegantly groovy ethnic references like Afro-style fabric prints, wood carvings and (exquisitely understated) jungle-print wallpaper. Lots of colour, from barely-there sage to hot pink. There is original artwork everywhere, so no two rooms look alike.

The facilities

Where the Soho Hotel (and the Charlotte Street Hotel) have screening rooms, the Haymarket has a huge, subterranean swimming pool-bar-lounge area, with fairy-tale lighting, which is going to be the place to host parties over the next year or so. Brumus, the small restaurant-bar, serves northern Italian cuisine in a room wrapped in gorgeous printed raspberry wallpaper. The library is correctly English (leather-bound books, comfy sofas) but brilliantly updated with funky fabrics, colours, lighting. The beautiful Shooting Gallery (a listed room which had to be suspended while they built around it) is pure Regency in its proportions.

The rooms
The big buzz here is the Townhouse Suite, a proper English townhouse with five bedrooms, bathrooms and a kitchen, to take whole. There are also three two-bed suites. All rooms, though, are light, spacious and filled with desirable art and objects. Kit’s relentless eye elevates detail to high hotel couture. Though the John Nash building is listed, it was gutted by a fire many years ago. As a result, Kit’s had more or less free rein to rebuild interiors, so there’s none of that poky-misplaced-bathroom feel you can get in other historic buildings.

Everyone will have favourites but we loved the third floor rooms. Painted beams run through them and wraparound windows frame views of haughty stone London buildings. Airy seaside colour schemes (and the porthole windows in room 306) make you feel like you’re sailing a ship through the city.

Katie Scott's Review of Haymarket Hotel

Setting foot inside the luxury hotel Haymarket on London's trafalgar Square is like a visit to the Tate Modern or the MOMA. When the reception tells us to have a seat in the lobby, my first thought is, “On these sofas?”, forgetting that the arty furnishings also serve a practical purpose. There are two small sitting areas that mirror each other – one with ornate Louis XVI furniture revamped with canary yellow fabrics, the other with more contemporary sofas that continue the yellow idea.

The facilities

The dichotomy between old and new, and the flawless fusion of the two, is a theme carried throughout the hotel. And it works well. The Library – a private sitting area enjoyed only by hotel guests – displays leather-bound volumes and a Roman plaster bust, but the patterned fabrics, over-sized art on the walls and light fixtures are all contemporary. This area leads off to The Shooting Gallery, a private function room where hand-painted wallpaper depicts a tropical jungle in shades of grey.

Perhaps the boutique hotel’s most stunning feature is the subterranean pool, with a pewter bar, gold-upholstered sofas and light installation by Martin Richman. There are only a handful of London boutique hotels that have a swimming pool, but as always Kit Kemp has turned this space into an art gallery of sorts. In a hotel with only 50 rooms, there are never more than 3 guests at a time in these public areas, making it the perfect setting to entertain friends outside of your room.

One of Haymarket’s highlights is the location itself, ideally planted between Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. Before a night out in London, be sure to stop into Brumus, the hotel’s restaurant that is also open to the public. The well-priced menu is now brasserie-style featuring fresh, organic produce. It’s easy to get distracted by the bold patterns covering the walls and seating, but be sure to look up before you leave. Overhead are umbrella-shaped chandeliers – proving that Kit Kemp’s sharp eye hasn’t missed a beat.

The rooms

That being said, the 51 rooms themselves are large enough to host a party with floor-to-ceiling windows letting in floods of light. Each one is individually designed by Kemp, as in all the Firmdale properties, with the guest’s comfort as a top priority. The fun fabrics bear the Kit Kemp mark, and all mod cons are still there but tastefully done – they’re not the room’s central focus. Bathrooms are luxurious and equally roomy, most with a separate bath and shower and a flat-screen TV, discreetly positioned above the bath to create the perfect space to unwind.