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Serviced apartments in Mayfair · W1

A small portfolio of serviced residences across Mayfair, for stays from a month, in the streets between Hyde Park and Bond Street.

Serviced apartments in Mayfair

Why Mayfair.

Mayfair is the half square mile between Hyde Park and Regent Street, Oxford Street and Piccadilly. Most of it is not shops. Behind New Bond Street and the galleries are quiet Georgian streets and three garden squares, Grosvenor, Berkeley and Hanover, where the people who live here outnumber the people passing through. It is old money, embassies and discreet offices rather than nightlife.

People take a flat here for a month or longer when they want to be central and private at once: relocating, between homes, in town for the Season, or on a placement that keeps them in the West End.

The grid you walk was laid out by the Grosvenor estate in the eighteenth century, and the estate still owns much of it, which is why the streets stayed residential while the West End grew up around them. The squares were the centrepieces and they still work that way. Mount Street Gardens behind the Connaught is mostly residents and gardeners on a weekday; Grosvenor Square has lost its old American embassy but kept its plane trees. The shopping spine, New and Old Bond Street, Mount Street, runs along the edges, and one street back the noise drops within fifty paces.

For a stay of a month or more the practical truth matters more than the address. You are four minutes from Bond Street station and the Elizabeth line, fifteen minutes on foot from Hyde Park, and walking distance to a butcher, a chemist and a flower stall on Mount Street that residents actually use. The food hall at Selfridges covers the weekly shop. The restaurants are good and the members clubs are busy, but the residential streets go quiet early and stay that way.

Mayfair does not suit everyone, and it is worth saying so. It is expensive, it is not lively after dark, and on a Sunday in August parts of it can feel half asleep. If you want a neighbourhood that hums under the window, or better value for the space, Marylebone next door or Bloomsbury further east will serve you better. If you want to be in the centre of London and barely hear it, this is the part to be in.

Photograph · to be shotA quiet residential turning off the retail spine. Georgian terrace, plane trees, empty pavement. Daylight, no models.
Photograph · to be shotA garden square mid-morning. Railings, benches, a few residents. The two-timetable feel of the area.
Our impressions
No. 03 / Mayfair

Mayfair keeps two timetables. The shops run on visitors; the streets behind them run on the people who actually live here, and the two rarely meet.

Stand in Mount Street Gardens on a weekday morning and you would not know New Bond Street is four minutes away. It is mostly residents, a few people reading, the gardeners. If I were taking a flat here for a few months I would want to be north of Grosvenor Square, around the Mount Street and South Audley end, where the butcher and the chemist and the flower stall are the kind you use rather than photograph.

The honest reservation is the evenings. This is not a part of London that hums after ten. The restaurants are good and the members clubs are busy, but the residential streets go quiet early and stay that way, and on a Sunday in August the whole place can feel half asleep. For a lot of our guests that silence is the entire point. If you want a neighbourhood that buzzes under the window, this is not it, and Soho is a fifteen-minute walk when you want it.

Visited often By a StayLuxe senior consultant. We let across Mayfair and walk it in every season before we write about it.

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The area, oriented
No. 04 / Mayfair

Where Mayfair sits.

The frame an orienter needs before judging fit: the boundaries, the postcode, how connected it is, and where the green space and the airports are. Distances measured on foot or by the line you would actually take.

W1, Mayfair Approximate area
Where it sits

The West End, quiet side.

Mayfair is the quarter of the City of Westminster bounded by Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane, with Hyde Park along its western edge and Green Park to the south. It is the West End, so the City is twenty-five minutes by Tube and Soho, Covent Garden and St James's are walkable. Five Underground stations sit on its perimeter, and the Elizabeth line at Bond Street reaches Heathrow in about forty-five minutes.

  • BoroughCity of Westminster
  • PostcodesW1J, W1K, W1S
  • Conservation areaMayfair
  • Green spaceHyde & Green Park

Mayfair, in brief

Best for
Central and private

Being in the middle of London and barely hearing it.

Borough
Westminster

Postcodes W1J, W1K and W1S.

Conservation area
Mayfair

Georgian grid, largely Grosvenor estate.

Garden squares
Three

Grosvenor, Berkeley and Hanover.

Tube stations
Five on the edge

Bond Street, Oxford Circus, Green Park, Marble Arch, Hyde Park Corner.

Nearest park
Hyde Park

Fifteen minutes on foot; Green Park to the south.

Connectivity
  • The City 25 min by Tube
  • Soho 10 min walk
  • King's Cross 15 min by Tube
  • Heathrow 45 min, Elizabeth line
  • Gatwick 60 min via Victoria
On the doorstep
No. 05 / Mayfair

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.

Dining

Scott's

The Mount Street seafood institution, as much a Mayfair fixture for lunch as for dinner.

5 min walk · book ahead

The Connaught Bar

Repeatedly rated among the best bars in the world, and a short walk for a nightcap that does not need a taxi home.

6 min walk

El Pirata

An unpretentious Down Street tapas room that locals keep coming back to, the antidote to the grand dining rooms.

8 min walk
Green space

Hyde Park

Three hundred and fifty acres on the western edge, with the Serpentine for swimming and a proper running loop.

15 min walk

Mount Street Gardens

The hidden residents' garden behind the Connaught, mostly locals and gardeners on a weekday morning.

4 min walk

Green Park

The quiet park to the south, plane trees and deckchairs, and a straight walk through to St James's and the Mall.

8 min walk
Provisions

Selfridges Food Hall

Where the weekly shop actually happens, full grocery range on Oxford Street, and open on Sundays.

6 min walk · open Sundays

The Mount Street butcher

The traditional butcher residents have used for generations, alongside a chemist and a flower stall on the same row.

5 min walk

Waitrose, Marylebone

A full supermarket a few minutes over Oxford Street, for the everyday list the food halls do not cover.

10 min walk
Culture

Royal Academy of Arts

Major exhibitions and a quiet courtyard on Piccadilly, the kind of place you drop into rather than make a day of.

9 min walk

Handel & Hendrix

Two former residents of the same Brook Street address, two centuries apart, now a small and specific museum.

4 min walk

The Bond Street galleries

Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian and the auction houses, free to walk into and a short stroll from the door.

5 min walk
Transport

Bond Street

Central, Jubilee and Elizabeth lines from one station, the fastest way east to the City or out to Heathrow.

4 min walk

Green Park

Victoria, Piccadilly and Jubilee lines, with the Piccadilly running direct to Heathrow if you would rather not change.

8 min walk

Heathrow

About forty-five minutes on the Elizabeth line from Bond Street, no change and no motorway.

45 min by rail
The Residences
No. 06 / Mayfair

A small portfolio in Mayfair.

We visit every building we let. Tell us the shape of your stay and we will match you to the right one. Below: the collection in Mayfair, and one home from inside it to make it concrete.

Building façade, to be shot. Portland stone terrace, the quiet side street, daylight. The Bond Street Collection
Building / The Bond Street Collection · Mayfair

The Bond Street Collection

7residences 3layouts W1Mayfair

A restored Georgian period building on a quiet turning off Oxford Street, four minutes from Bond Street station yet still by most weekday evenings. Seven serviced residences across five floors, each one unique.

  • Period building, restored 2022
  • Daytime concierge in the lobby
  • Four minutes to two Tube lines
  • Stays from one month
View the collection Enquire from £2,200 / week
The Two Bedroom living room, The Bond Street Collection A home in the collection
Apartment / In The Bond Street Collection

The Two Bedroom

110sqm 4guests 2baths

The largest residence in the building, shown here to make the collection concrete. Two equal bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, and an open-plan living space that seats six. The right home for a family in town for the Season, or two colleagues on a long placement.

  • Two equal principal bedrooms
  • Two full bathrooms
  • Dual-aspect living, dining for six
  • Herringbone timber floors
View this home Enquire from £4,200 / week
Why Stay Luxe
No. 07 / Mayfair
2019 Welcoming guests since
7 London residences
94% Guest return rate
4.9 Average review score
Accreditations
ASAP Member Association of Serviced Apartment Providers
CHPA Accredited Corporate Housing Providers Association
ISO 9001 Quality management
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