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Mayfair

Practical London guides tagged Mayfair.

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A lit Christmas tree hung with gold baubles covering the front of Annabel's at night on Berkeley Square, with a black cab passing in the foreground

Things to do

Private Members' Clubs in London: Fees, Dress Codes and How to Get In

London's private members' clubs, from Soho House and Annabel's to the St James's gentlemen's clubs: what each costs to join in 2026, how to apply, the dress codes and phone rules, and what a visitor can book without a membership.

  • Members' clubs
  • Mayfair
  • Soho
  • Nightlife
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Claridge's red-brick and terracotta corner at Brook Street and Davies Street, with Christmas trees over the entrance canopies and taxis passing on the street below

Stay

Where to Stay in Mayfair: Which Grand Hotel, and What Costs Less

Mayfair's hotels compared by what actually differs: Park Lane or Grosvenor Square, the bar, the tea, the family rooms and the rate. Plus a £90 underground room and apartments with kitchens.

  • Where to stay
  • Hotels
  • Mayfair
  • Luxury hotels
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A croupier's hands dealing cards across a blue baize casino table, with stacked chips in the tray below

Things to do

Casinos in London: Which Are Still Open, and the Rules Before You Go

Three of Mayfair's grandest gambling rooms have closed since 2018. Every casino here was checked against its own website, with the rules that actually decide your night — ID, membership, dress codes and the camera ban.

  • Casinos
  • Nights out
  • Things to do
  • Mayfair
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The curving Regent Street Quadrant with a black cab passing the Hotel Cafe Royal

London areas

Mayfair Area Guide: The Arcades, Bond Street and the Royal Academy

A complete Mayfair guide: the Victorian shopping arcades, the Royal Academy, Handel and Hendrix next door to each other, and the free things worth doing.

  • Mayfair
  • Bond Street
  • Royal Academy
  • Neighbourhoods
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The glass-roofed Burlington Arcade lined with jewellers' windows

London areas

A Walk from Fitzrovia to Mayfair: Squares, Savile Row and the Arcades in Eleven Stops

A numbered walking route from Fitzroy Square to Green Park by the back streets: All Saints, Savile Row, both Piccadilly arcades, the reopened Grosvenor Square and Shepherd Market. With what is shut on which day.

  • Fitzrovia
  • Mayfair
  • Walks
  • Free things to do
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The dining room at Circolo Popolare, walls stacked floor to ceiling with bottles under a ceiling of hanging greenery, wisteria and fairy lights

Food and drink

The Most Instagrammable Restaurants in London, Ranked by How Many Lists Name Them

The rooms London's guides keep naming — a Mayfair Greco-Roman fantasy with Damien Hirst marbles, a townhouse of rooms with egg-pod lavatories, a courthouse atrium — and which ones cook as well as they photograph.

  • Restaurants
  • Design
  • Dining
  • Photography
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