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Updated: May 22, 2022
By Santorini Dave
•Best Hotels in Mayfair: Connaught • Four Seasons at Park Lane • Claridge’s • Grosvenor House Suites • Dorchester • Athenaeum Hotel & Residences
• London’s Mayfair neighborhood runs east of Hyde Park to Piccadilly Circus, and Oxford Circus. It’s a superb area for designer and high street shopping, home to verdant parks, cocktail bars, first-class restaurants and some of London’s most iconic hotels.
• In Mayfair, you can visit Speaker’s Corner, Marble Arch and Hyde Park, take a boat ride on the Serpentine and browse designer shops such as Chanel, Dior and Louis Vuitton on New Bond Street.
• Nightlife in Mayfair is lively and upscale. The neighborhood offers everything from chic cocktail bars where you can mingle with London’s glitterati to the familiar Hard Rock Café, charming traditional pubs and buzzing nightclubs which are open till dawn.
• Mayfair is also home to some of London’s hippest restaurants serving cuisine ranging from British, Italian, American, Japanese, Cantonese, and Indian food to burger and lobster.
• Hotels in Mayfair are a grand affair, mainly 4 or 5-star overlooking Hyde Park. Airbnb also offer a selection of private rooms and apartments in and around Mayfair.
• Several bus routes operate along the periphery of Mayfair and there are several tube stations dotted around the neighborhood – Marble Arch, Hyde Park Corner, Green Park, Oxford Circus, and Piccadilly Circus.
• To get to London Heathrow Airport from Mayfair, take the tube from Oxford Circus (Bakerloo line) to Paddington Station (10 minutes) for the Heathrow Express train to Terminal 5 (20 minutes).
• For Gatwick Airport, the Victoria line from Green Park station transports you to Victoria Station in one-stop (3 minutes), from there take the Gatwick Express train. You can reach King’s Cross/St. Pancras train station from the Green Park tube station (16 minutes) or Oxford Circus station (11 minutes).
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