Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park

London, United Kingdom. Located in Knightsbridge, facing Hyde Park, with a ‘Royal Entrance’ on the park side reserved for special occasions.

Mandarin Oriental Hyde ParkLondon, United Kingdom

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Address: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park
66 Knightsbridge
London SW1X 7LA
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 20 7235 2000
Official website: www.mandarinoriental.com
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181 rooms and suites, including 40 suites, redesigned by Joyce Wang.
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal (two Michelin stars), the Japanese izakaya The Aubrey, The Rosebery tearoom and the Mandarin Bar, with interiors by Adam Tihany.
A spa with 13 treatment rooms, an Oriental Suite with Rasul, and a fitness centre; a Louis XVI ballroom.
Located in Knightsbridge, facing Hyde Park, with a ‘Royal Entrance’ on the park side reserved for special occasions.

12 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

February 1888
Work begins on Hyde Park Court, a luxury apartment block with a gentlemen’s club, built by Jabez Balfour and James William Hobbs to designs by Archer & Green.
1892
The collapse of Balfour’s Liberator Building Society sends both promoters to prison; receivers complete the unfinished building.
1898
The building is sold to Herbert Bennett, a Harrods director; a fire damages its upper floors the following year.
1902
With César Ritz as adviser and Mewès & Davis as architects, it opens as the Hyde Park Hotel with 268 bedrooms.
1911 – 1912
Mewès & Davis redecorate the ballroom in Louis XVI style; Queen Mary, Edward VIII and Rudolph Valentino are among the hotel’s visitors.
1916
Max Aitken, staying at the hotel, is offered the peerage that makes him Lord Beaverbrook.
1937
For the coronation of George VI, the Crown allows guests to use the park-side entrance normally kept for royalty.
1968
Trust Houses Forte buys the hotel.
November 1996
Granada sells it for £86 million to Mandarin Oriental, which renames it Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park.
18 May 2000
The hotel reopens after a £57 million renovation begun in October 1999.
6 June 2018
During renovation works designed by Joyce Wang, a fire damages the exterior courtyard; no one is hurt.
15 April 2019
The hotel fully reopens after its renovation.