Six lobbies, named as landmarks
Most Mayfair requests come from six hotels. They appear here the way a driver would name them, as addresses and nothing else. No hotel in the district has an arrangement with the desk and none is needed, because she arrives as your guest, the same as a friend stopping by for a drink.
The art deco house on Brook Street, W1K 4HR, all mirrors behind a revolving door. The red brick house on Carlos Place, W1K 2AL, set back behind its own forecourt and the shallow pool of water outside it. The Park Lane landmark at W1K 1QA, and its smaller sister at W1K 1PN a few doors north, both looking across six lanes of traffic to the trees of the park. On Albemarle Street, the run of joined townhouses at W1S 4BP, where the Donovan Bar is a gentle place to say hello. The colonnaded corner on Piccadilly, W1J 9BR, where jacket and tie are expected in the public rooms and she dresses to match the room.
Mews flats and the serviced apartments tucked down the side streets count exactly as hotel rooms do. Tell the desk the building, which flat, and whose name is beside the buzzer.







