Located in the heart of Mayfair, close to Bond Street, Oxford Street and Regent Street, theatres, art galleries and major attractions, Green Park and Hyde Park, a short taxi ride from the City, Canary Wharf and the main business district, 45 minutes from Heathrow International Airport and 1 hour 10 minutes from Gatwick Airport.
The legendary Brown's Hotel is located on a quiet 18th-century street in London's prestigious Mayfair neighbourhood, close to Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly Street. A short walk away are the fashionable shops of Bond Street. The current owner of Brown's Hotel London, The Rocco Forte Collection, has ensured that the renovation retains the wild, aristocratic atmosphere of a luxury hotel. When designing the interiors, the company's art director, the famous designer Olga Polizzi, combined the best of modern design with the traditions of English style.
Brown's Hotel was founded in 1837 by James Brown, the former valet of Lord Byron. Since then, it has hosted a number of celebrities. Among them: writers Rudyard Kipling and Agatha Christie, Emperor Napoleon III, US presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, queens of Belgium and the Netherlands. Alexander Graham Bell, the creator of the telephone, was also a guest of Brown's Hotel. It was here that he first demonstrated his invention to the British public. The hotel is proud that it was from here that the first telephone call was made in England.
Today, as it was almost 200 years ago, Brown's Hotel is still as sophisticated and famous. It offers magnificent rooms, a restaurant and bar, as well as a very cosy tea salon, which, without exaggeration, can be called one of the best in London.