Three postcodes make up the western heart of this catalogue. SW7 holds the museums and the Cromwell Road hotels, W8 the palace, the gardens and the high street, and SW5 the terraces around Earls Court. They join without a seam, and a guest can walk from one into the next without noticing the change.
Read this page as a gallery plan. Every district named below opens onto a full page of hotels, stations, walking times and nearest companions.
5 districts under one code
Hotels, apartments and private homes
The Ampersand Hotel, Baglioni Hotel and 1 more hotels
Royal Garden Hotel and The Milestone Hotel
Gloucester Road, 1 min on foot
Earl's Court, 1 min on foot
Royal Garden Hotel
The whole collection is on call for SW7, with no charge for her travel.
South Kensington is the home district: Exhibition Road and its three great museums, with The Ampersand, the Baglioni and The Kensington among the hotels. Gloucester Road, one stop west, carries the larger hotels along Cromwell Road and the Piccadilly line straight in from Heathrow. Queen's Gate and the Royal Albert Hall are SW7 as well.
Kensington covers the gardens, Kensington Square and the mansion flats, where the Royal Garden Hotel and The Milestone overlook the park. High Street Kensington is the shopping street, the Design Museum and the antique dealers of Kensington Church Street. Most W8 bookings are to private addresses rather than hotels.
Earls Court is tall white stucco, garden squares and boutique hotels, served by Earl's Court and West Brompton stations, and livelier after dark than either of its neighbours.
Some addresses sit close to a boundary. The Baglioni on Hyde Park Gate is SW7, yet the mansion blocks of De Vere Gardens a few steps away are W8, and several hotels on Cromwell Road west of Gloucester Road carry SW5 on their letterheads. None of this changes a booking; it only tells you which page to open first.
All three codes fall inside Zones 1 and 2, and nobody is ever billed for her journey. One hour is £250, a dinner date of four hours £900, and ten hours overnight £1,800, with the full ladder on the rates page. Across the belt, a standard hotel or residence booking is confirmed once 25 percent has arrived by bank transfer. Overnights, events and travel double the deposit to 50 percent, its travel portion non-refundable. Once confirmed, a companion is normally with you within the hour at any address in the three codes.
Check your booking confirmation or the hotel's own website. The desk can also place it from the hotel name alone.
No. Fees, deposits and arrival times are the same in all three.
Yes. Houses, mansion flats and serviced apartments carry exactly the terms a hotel room does.
Write once on WhatsApp or Telegram with the time and the address. A person on the desk answers within 10 to 15 minutes, day or night, and a verified companion is usually with you inside the hour.