Durley House, London, United Kingdom
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Durley House 5 Stars
“Tastefully discreet, the Sloane Square boutique hotel has just 11 spacious suites filled with antiques and Regency furnishings.”
Hotel Overview
Review of Durley House, by Anna Jankovich
Among the elegant residential buildings of London’s fashionable Sloane Street, lies a hidden gem – Durley House. The discreet entrance leads guests into an oasis of tranquillity and sophistication. Durley House is an 11 bedroom, all-suite hotel, laid out like a typical London townhouse.
The luxurious suites are individually furnished in an English style and you feel you are entering a private apartment. The suite living rooms are spacious and equipped with comfortable couches, big armchairs, antique writing tables and fireplaces.
The bedrooms are charming, offering maximum comfort and the bathrooms are bright and cheerful. Each suite has a fully equipped kitchen (ideal for families with children). Otherwise, guests can order meals which are brought up directly to their suite via a lift and are served by a butler.
There is a comfortable salon on the ground floor where guests can entertain or have a meeting with several people. Cocktails and dinner parties can be arranged upon request. For those wanting to keep fit, there are two tennis courts across the street, set in a beautiful private garden, and a health club nearby.
Those seeking privacy in a luxurious and spacious setting in the centre of London should certainly consider Durley House.
Facilities
Hotel Policies
Rooms
11Who stays here?
The access to the garden square, the spacious rooms and the ability to cook your own meals make Durley House perfect for families and those looking for a longer stay.
Come for...
- The butler service
- Your own keys to Cadogan Gardens
- Sloane Street shopping
Not Suitable for...
- Smaller budgets
Children
Extra beds and baby cots are available. There is also a children's playground onsite.
Eating in
Suites have kitchenettes, there is full room service (delivered by dumb-waiter, served by your butler) and the hotel will organise caterers should you wish to entertain.
Reviews
Review of Durley House, by Angela Moore
Two 18th-century townhouses have been gracefully converted to make up Durley House Hotel in London. Enter from Sloane Street to find a little reception room, presided over by a po-faced portrait of Lord Durley and by smiling, attentive staff. This in turn leads through to a small sitting room. It's extremely elegant in a low-key and welcoming way, with rugs on a flagstone floor and plump silk-striped sofas ranged around a fireplace. A large armoire hides an honesty bar.
Durley House is fortunate enough to be situated right over the road from Cadogan Gardens, a large private garden square. Guests are given a key to the gardens and they are marvellous - lawns under spreading trees, benches behind high yew hedges, even a tennis court and a playground where you can safely let the kids off the leash. It doesn't get better than this for outside space in London.
There's another pleasant surprise in the kitchens, which are far larger and much-better stocked than you would expect. You could actually cook here, if you wanted to; otherwise, order from 24-hour room service and your meal will arrive from the kitchens in a dumbwaiter and be served to you by your butler.
The hotel doesn't have public rooms to speak of. The point of Durley House is that the suites are spacious and detailed enough to act as mini-apartments. All of the 11 suites are furnished with grace and taste - everything is original and everything has been chosen because it suits the room, not because it came as part of an auction-house job-lot of antiques.
It's also unaffected, with a touch of fresh country chic in the cheerful Regency sofas piled with cushions, happy pale primrose walls and fresh flowers on the marble fireplaces. Big bedrooms have everything you would expect, down to proper (non-ziplink!) beds piled with Irish linen and enough wardrobe space for an extended stay.