London’s best child-friendly hotels

With the world-leading array of child-friendly museums, pop-ups and attractions crossed London, booking a sleepover successful municipality is the eventual household luxury. 

Spending a nighttime successful municipality means you tin compression truthful overmuch much into the time – whilst besides making blessed memories, beryllium they astatine the meal buffet (my kids’ blessed place) oregon falling dormant unneurotic aft a West End show.

Some hotels mightiness person had a estimation for stuffiness successful the aged days, but contiguous the capital’s hoteliers are bending implicit backwards to invited families successful the astir imaginative ways. From treasure hunts to child-focused concierges, escaped kids meals to in-room teepees, my household of 5 (including kids aged six, 4 and one) cheque retired the London hotels doing everything they tin to guarantee children – and their parents – consciousness other invited successful their beds.

London’s oldest edifice takes luxury seriously. This Mayfair spot thinks of each item for parents, from a Liberty-print Dockatot teepee structure filled with books and toys successful families’ rooms down to kids’ silky-soft furniture linen being embroidered with London buses and landmarks. There are tiny, heavy towelling robes, astute stripy kids’ slippers and, for babies, a play mat, integrated toiletries, positive nappies, and changing table. Crumbly biscuits successful our Kipling suite connected accomplishment cement my kids’ presumption of this edifice arsenic the champion spot connected earth.

There are beauteous floral prints and whimsical elephant and monkey statues, a motion to Kipling’s penning parts of the Jungle Book successful this immense and beauteous suite. A walk-in wardrobe means nary of the accustomed hodgepodge of kids apparel each implicit the spot - and added to the fantabulous crippled of fell and question played retired successful the myriad nooks astir this fantastical suite. 

The lone interest successful this stunning historical edifice is that kids mightiness get utilized to it. My six-year-old joins maine for a Mummy and Me spa attraction - aft gentle, side-by-side facials, he’s near snoozing connected the attraction array arsenic I sip jasmine tea. 

Hamleys, London’s champion shops and galleries are steps distant - and my eldest loves ogling the sports cars retired the window. The affable doormen and waiters soon knew each my kids’ names, handing retired colouring menus astatine dinner, which had due nutrient for kids including steak and salmon.

Back to our country for bathtime, it’s the largest edifice bath I’ve ever seen. The tremendous tub offers up Irene Forte toiletries, and Browns’ rubber duckies and heated level adhd to the joy. The immense lounge meant zero sitting-in-the-dark waiting for kids to autumn dormant - alternatively we work and gazed retired astatine bustling Albermarle Street. After breakfasting connected beautifully crisp pastries and croissants, gooey French toast with cleanable berries, and fluffy American pancakes, we regrettably had to permission Brown’s to instrumentality to the existent satellite - but had precise fond memories of the paradise down its dense doors.

You’re other Big Ben, you’re a toddler-without-moaning region from the London Eye and London Aquarium, and you’re adjacent theatres and museums astatine this large, cardinal hotel. The Park Plaza’s spacious Studio Rooms see a treble chamber and a sofa furniture successful the lounge truthful parents tin debar the accepted post-kids’ bedtime evening spent hiding successful a bathroom. There’s besides a kitchenette, perfect for making children’s snacks oregon meals truthful you don’t person to dine astatine 5pm, and a 15-metre excavation wherever kids are allowed to aquatics astir each day, from 8am-8pm. Children besides person their ain check-in, wherever they person a colouring publication contiguous and ‘money’ to walk connected nutrient and portion during the stay, positive occasional events similar kids’ day beverage and pizza-making.

This edifice acceptable successful 300 greenish acres is simply a playground which comes live successful the warmer months. A immense and well-heated outdoor pool, framed by sandy formation and buckets and spades, ensures the kids ne'er privation to leave. A shot transportation positive tennis, array tennis and perfectly-kid-sized walking trails with woodland philharmonic structures to interruption up the travel support everyone extracurricular each time long.

There are escaped bikes for kids (£10 for adults), archery and axe-throwing, laser clay shooting (£20 for 6+), woodland hawking walks and - our children’s favourite - mini Land Rovers to contention done woodland paths: they shrieked with delight astatine being down a existent wheel.

The well-stocked trove of escaped arts and trade activities successful the Potting Shed saw our kids marque jewellery and jigsaw puzzles, and bask the arcade games, excavation array and aerial hockey. For due relaxation a paid-for staffed kids nine runs Saturday mornings and Sunday afternoons. When the upwind is wet, a tiny children’s excavation is amusive for the kids, though little truthful for adults. The immense and excellent-quality meal buffet astatine the Glasshouse restaurant, with everything from sashimi to roast meats, caller pasta to Sri Lankan cuisine, and a dessert presumption implicit with cocoa fountain and crystal pick sundae stand, won everyone over. 

Bedrooms are spacious, successful relaxing olive and pick tones; determination are Petit Prince kids’ toiletries, positive snuggly fleece dressing gowns and small slippers, whilst grown-ups person Bamford unctions. The stunning Sequoia Spa is simply a due dainty for adults and implicit 12s - but mostly it’s the roaming and state that the kids remembered: the Grove’s immense grounds marque it a household favourite. It’s besides lone 3 miles from Harry Potter World if that’s connected the wish-list.

From £590 for a deluxe country for 4 including breakfast; thegrove.co.uk

This is simply a enactment that volition person your kids showing disconnected to their friends astatine school. London Zoo’s 9 Indian-inspired lodge cabins each person a backstage balcony wherever families person meal (included) whilst listening to the sounds of the neighbours - Asiatic lions, gibbons, and honking flamingos. The Zoo hosts abstracted big nights and household nights, truthful you won’t person to interest astir your tiny ones being excessively noisy (although you can’t instrumentality immoderate tiny ones with its property five-plus lone policy). Each lodge tin acceptable 2 adults and 2 children, oregon 1 big and 3 children, up to the property of 13.

The rooms are snug, with children sleeping connected sofa beds, and en-suite bathrooms (shower not baths) - but you won’t beryllium spending excessively agelong successful them anyway: guests tin research the zoo for 2 afloat days earlier and aft spending the nighttime and person 3 exclusive after-hours tours of the zoo astatine sunset, torch-lit after-dark, and aft meal the adjacent morning, including gathering keepers. This enactment would marque a precise peculiar day present.

From £202 per idiosyncratic (based connected duplicate share) with each further kid £75 each; zsl.org

Here’s wherever parents who privation the benignant of luxe interruption they enjoyed pre-kids request to publication in. Sure, you astir apt won’t get a prevarication successful but you volition get everything other you utilized to bask during your lazy child-free holidaying days successful this beauteous art-packed hotel. Kit Kemp’s chic-and-cheerful plan gives everyone successful the family’s eyes thing to beryllium enjoy. The friendly, adjuvant unit emotion children, ever retrieve their names and bring delicious, personalised cookies and beverage for a midnight feast.

There’s a wow excavation wherever kids tin splash anytime successful beforehand of a integer sunset. Although astatine 1.5m deep, astir kids won’t beryllium capable to basal up, determination are armbands, babe chairs and Insta-ready donut lilos to borrow.

There’s an honesty barroom for parents who request propping up - and Brumus edifice has a children’s paper (salmon, chicken, caller veg, caller potatoes) that really cares astir its diners. You consciousness similar you’re staying successful your coolest friend’s house. An astonishing cook whips up chilli sweetcorn fritters for meal and loves your kids truthful overmuch they’ve enactment retired tiny towelling robes, slippers and bunny toiletry sets. You won’t privation to leave.

As 1 of the closest hotels to London Zoo, which is besides adjacent to the Tube for each of cardinal London’s array of sightseeing, this super-modern refurbished edifice makes a truly comfy spot to unbend if you’d similar a much spacious enactment aft a engaged time with the gorillas. Being a small further retired of the manic capital, this subdivision of the Melia concatenation has a decent magnitude of country to play with. The Level household rooms acceptable 2 adults, kids successful a sofa-bed and a chic bathroom. Another enactment is an interconnecting country for bigger families. Children person their ain toiletry container and kids’ country work paper oregon included entree for each to person drinks and snacks each time long- a item for astir grazing children.

From £326 for 2 interconnecting rooms for a household of four, oregon £354 for a Level suite; melia.com

That celebrated Asian hospitality extends to the smallest visitors astatine this City-based hotel, wherever children are handed a treasure hunt astatine check-in to summation signatures from antithetic unit each implicit the edifice and triumph an incredibly brushed cuddly lion (the Pan Pacific is from Singapore, the Lion city) astatine the end. Children volition emotion the invited cookies, Dadaumpa integrated kids’ toiletries and awesome towel animals waiting successful the beauteous modern rooms. Going for a ‘double treble room’ class gives you a generous abstraction (even the smallest is 41sqm) with 2 immense beds and country for an other furniture oregon cot too. 

There’s a warm, infinity excavation wherever kids are welcomed with excavation noodles, floats and toys betwixt 7-9 successful the greeting and 4pm-6pm, and the spa - usually a no-go country for children - really welcomes them astatine the Pan Pacific. Those aged 6-16 tin publication successful for the Dreamy Treatment (a immense dainty astatine £100 per person) - months on, my lad is inactive talking astir this facial and assemblage massage, wherever we laic broadside by broadside for the eventual relaxation and were some treated similar royalty. 

The edifice is connected the doorstep of the Tower of London and immoderate of the Capital’s champion viewing points, arsenic good arsenic adjacent Spitalfields municipality workplace and steps from Spitalfields market. We returned for meal astatine Straits Kitchen (where kids nether six devour free, and it’s fractional terms for nether 12s), wherever the work was arsenic child-friendly arsenic passim the hotel, and our children gobbled up due nutrient including fillet steak arsenic we appreciated the Asian cuisine of satay skewers and laksa. 

The Asian-British transverse is backmost astatine breakfast, wherever the buffet is 1 of the loveliest successful London: marque country for each azygous 1 of the crisp croissants, and effort immoderate congee too.

If you’re treating the kids to a West End amusement oregon buying trip, you won’t find a better-located luxury pad than this one. The stages of hits similar Matilda and Mammia Mia are a fewer steps away, arsenic are immoderate of the Capital’s astir child-friendly museums and activities, including the London Transport Museum and Covent Garden’s performers. A Beano-wrapped canine astatine reception sets One Aldwych’s quirky, family-friendly tone. We instantly acceptable disconnected connected its fabulous treasure hunt, which encourages the kids to deliberation arsenic investigative journalists - the clues included nooks astir the West End that I’d ne'er spotted successful my astir four-decades surviving successful London - positive there’s the tastiest benignant of scoop astatine the end. 

The edifice is simply a chic, calm oasis from the Capital’s buzziness. Vast windows springiness London views everyplace - and we loved retreating to the circular lounge wrong country 100, looking retired onto the Strand. All rooms person beauteous precocious ceilings, and marble touches successful a modern way. Our children inhaled the invited mini cocoa cupcakes successful our room, and we each loved the chic bath with gorgeous heated level and TV-side bath. The kids felt similar royalty successful our spacious room, with their mini slippers and bathrobes, and adjacent child-sized umbrellas (this is London, aft all.)

One Aldwych’s gathering dates backmost to 1905, erstwhile it was the location of the Morning Post paper (hence the scoop-finding), but wherever the presses utilized to rotation is contiguous an unthinkable azure basement pool. During the weekend, kids tin entree it each time long, truthful don’t person to program your time astir a swim. (Be aware, though, it’s heavy astatine 1.5m with nary shallow extremity truthful younger swimmers mightiness privation to bring a noodle.) 

The last dainty for children (and childish adults) is the hotel’s unthinkable Charlie and the Chocolate Factory day tea. The adust crystal wizadry, tremendous candy floss, cleanable scones, fruity cocktails, caramel cocoa milkshakes and cakes near our children successful rhapsodies, showing however successfully One Aldwych welcomes families with wide-open arms.