#10 in Top 20 London for Business · ★★★★★
Rosewood London
Holborn, Edwardian-arches courtyard for arrivals — between Mayfair and the City for cross-town schedules.
Holborn, Edwardian-arches courtyard for arrivals — between Mayfair and the City for cross-town schedules.
"Holborn, Edwardian-arches courtyard for arrivals — between Mayfair and the City for cross-town schedules."
Rosewood London opened in 2013 in the restored Pearl Assurance Building on High Holborn — a 1914 Edwardian-baroque building with a 65-foot domed reception and the most-recognisable hotel arrival sequence in London (an Edwardian-arched courtyard that opens off the High Holborn pavement). Two hundred and sixty-three rooms and suites, the Manor House Wing (a private hotel-within-a-hotel with a separate entrance, butler service, and a private four-room family suite) is the multi-bedroom flagship. Holborn Dining Room (one of the most-recommended business-dinner rooms in London) is the working dinner space. Mirror Room is the more-formal Michelin-starred dining room. Scarfes Bar — named after the cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, with original Scarfe murals on the walls — is the working after-meeting cocktail room. Rosewood London's geographical position is the working asset for the cross-town London business trip — the property is fifteen minutes by Tube to Mayfair, fifteen minutes to the City, ten minutes to Westminster, ten minutes to King's Cross-and-St-Pancras. For the multi-meeting day across multiple London districts, this is the most-efficient base. Rosewood is the right pick for the London business trip where the client meetings span multiple districts and the hotel's working position is geographic.
Manor House Suite (private-entrance multi-bedroom) or Premier Suite for the working tier.
Holborn Dining Room 7pm is the working business dinner; book the corner-banquette by the windows. Scarfes Bar at 6pm — the corner table near the Scarfe murals is the editor's table. Use the Manor House Wing entrance for the most-discreet arrival on the trip.
Rosewood London sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in London for Business list. It scored an aggregate 9.7/10 across the three editorial criteria — competitive against the field but, on business-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same London neighbourhood, see Holborn, Midtown London and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces — the ones that earn this rank — are typically the first to sell out.