Mayfair · W1 · long stay serviced apartments
Serviced apartments in Mayfair · W1
Mayfair is the West End with the volume turned down: half a square mile of Georgian streets and garden squares between Hyde Park and Regent Street, where the people who live here outnumber the people passing through.
Serviced apartments in Mayfair
Why Mayfair.
Most of Mayfair is not shops. Behind New Bond Street and the galleries the streets go quiet: Georgian terraces around three garden squares, Grosvenor, Berkeley and Hanover, running to a rhythm of old money, embassies and discreet offices rather than nightlife. It is not a part of London that hums after ten, and that is the point: you can live in the middle of the West End and barely hear it.
The people already here are settled: old money and embassy staff, gallerists and auction-house people between Grosvenor Hill and New Bond Street, members walking to Annabel's on Berkeley Square, and on a weekday morning in Mount Street Gardens, mostly residents and gardeners. The tone is discreet rather than performed.
The practical case is strong. Bond Street station has a ticket hall on Davies Street itself, three minutes' walk, and the Elizabeth line from there reaches Liverpool Street in eight minutes and Heathrow in about half an hour. The weekly shop happens on Oxford Street, between Selfridges Food Hall and the Waitrose inside John Lewis, both open Sundays; the full supermarket is the Waitrose on Marylebone High Street, twelve minutes north. The chemist is around the corner on South Audley Street, Hyde Park starts across Park Lane thirteen minutes away, and Green Park serves the southern streets.
The quiet is old and deliberate. The grid was set out from the 1720s, when Sir Richard Grosvenor had a surveyor lay straight streets around a new square on the family's fields, and the estate holds the ground still, roughly three hundred acres that it leases rather than sells, which is why the streets stayed residential while the West End grew up around them. The squares are still the centrepieces: Grosvenor Square, which lost its American embassy to Nine Elms in 2018, reopened in July 2026 as a woodland garden after a year and £25m of replanting.
Mayfair suits the stay that wants everything close and nothing loud: the West End on foot, the park across Park Lane, and streets that stay quiet under the window. The trade-off is the flip side of that quiet: the evenings are subdued, and on a Sunday in August parts of it can feel half asleep. If a long stay in London means a neighbourhood that moves at night, Marylebone next door or Bloomsbury further east will serve you better.
The West End,
quiet side.
Mayfair, in brief
Being in the middle of London and barely hearing it
Largely still Grosvenor estate, leased rather than sold, which is why the streets stayed residential
Designated 1969; a Georgian grid set out from the 1720s
Grosvenor reopened in July 2026 as a woodland garden; Berkeley and Hanover open daily
350 acres beyond Park Lane; 40 acres serving the southern streets
Connectivity
- Soho in about ten minutes east, across Regent Street.
- Elizabeth line from Bond Street: Paddington in four minutes, Liverpool Street in eight, Heathrow in about thirty. None of them needs a change.
- Victoria line from Oxford Circus: King's Cross St Pancras in four minutes, direct.
- Central line from Bond Street: Bank in about ten minutes, direct.
- Gatwick in about forty-five minutes, Victoria line from Oxford Circus then the Gatwick Express.
What's in Mayfair.
What a resident here actually uses, named rather than generalised. Some of it sits inside Mayfair; some is a street or two over the boundary and counts anyway. Distances on foot from our Davies Street cluster.
Scott's
The Mount Street seafood institution, as much a fixture at lunch as at dinner.
A few min walk · book aheadThe Connaught Bar
Twice named the best bar in the world and still in the top ten, close enough that a nightcap does not need a taxi home.
A few min walkKitty Fisher's
A small dining room in Shepherd Market's Georgian huddle, modern British cooking and worth the walk south.
About 10 min walk · closed SundaysBerkeley Square
Plane trees and benches five minutes down Davies Street, open daily from eight; Grosvenor Square, a minute nearer, reopened in July 2026 as a woodland garden after its £25m restoration.
A few min walkMount Street Gardens
A pocket of plane trees and benches behind Mount Street, mostly residents and gardeners on a weekday morning; open from eight until dusk.
A few min walkHyde Park
Three hundred and fifty acres beyond Park Lane, with a proper running loop and the Serpentine lido in season.
About 15 min walkSelfridges Food Hall
The nearest thing to a weekly shop on this side of Oxford Street, counters and groceries under one roof.
A few min walk · open Sundays 11.30–18.00Waitrose at John Lewis
The food hall inside John Lewis on Oxford Street, better for the everyday list than the occasion counters.
About 10 min walk · open SundaysAudley Pharmacy
An independent chemist at 36 South Audley Street, just off Mount Street, for the everyday errands the area's fashion houses no longer cover.
A few min walk · closed SundaysHandel Hendrix House
Handel's house and Hendrix's flat at the same Brook Street address, two centuries apart, now one small museum.
A few min walk · closed Mon–TueGagosian, Grosvenor Hill
One of the largest commercial galleries in London, free to walk into, with a second room on Davies Street itself.
A few min walk · Tue–SatRoyal Academy of Arts
Major exhibitions and a quiet courtyard on Piccadilly, the kind of place you drop into rather than make a day of.
About 15 min walkBegin your enquiry.
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