travel42 Hotel Review: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London

Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Scrunched between the south side of Hyde Park and the incessant noise of Knightsbridge traffic, across the street from Harvey Nichols and a five-minute walk from Harrods, this Gothic-revival building has the opulence of the Victorian gentleman's club it once was.

Its Gothic revival Victorian structure looms over arrivals, and in scale can only be compared to the Renaissance St. Pancras. But that brick pile is out by the rail station; this place sits in th...