The South Kensington Mews, South Kensington
SLEEPS 10
Cobbled mews, five floors, most bedrooms en-suite, and Hyde Park ten minutes away on foot. It’s a very specific kind of London stay — measured, well-kept, the sort of address that makes the whole weekend feel slightly more organised than it actually is. The layout is slightly unconventional: kitchen on the lower ground floor, living space at street level, bedrooms above. It takes about ten minutes to stop thinking about it, and then you just drift between levels — coffee downstairs, someone always halfway up the stairs mid-conversation. Everyone gets space. Mornings don’t turn into a queue. The sash windows and soft neutrals make it feel like a London house rather than a London rental, which matters more over a long weekend than it does on paper. This isn’t a big-night-out house. It’s museum mornings, a dinner reservation that actually gets honoured, a glass of something good before heading out again — and somewhere genuinely calm to come back to.
Good to know: Five floors means a lot of stairs. Quiet residential mews — keep evenings low-key. Kitchen being downstairs takes a little getting used to.
From £1,000 per night
The Fulham House, Fulham
SLEEPS 10
Cancel at least one dinner reservation now. You won’t regret it. Parsons Green is leafy and well-heeled, full of people who look like they own good coats, and the house fits the neighbourhood without trying too hard. The kitchen is where it starts — Smeg, Delonghi, a dining table that expects an actual meal — and the pizza oven outside finishes it. Someone will use it on the first night. Everyone will talk about it for the rest of the weekend. Then there’s the cinema room, which starts as a novelty and becomes a nightly fixture, and a record player in the kitchen that makes staying in feel like an active choice rather than a default. Air conditioning in every bedroom. Good linen. The tube is nearby and the city is easy to reach, but the house keeps pulling people back. By Sunday, nobody will have stuck to the original plan and nobody will mind.
Good to know: Not central, but well connected. The outdoor cooking setup is a real feature — build it into the weekend rather than discovering it by accident. Three night minimum booking.
From £1,035 per night
The Notting Hill House, Notting Hill
SLEEPS 8–10
Portobello Road Market is around the corner, Daylesford is two minutes away, and the street looks exactly like the bit of London everyone has saved on their phone. The house leans into that without making a point of it — four bedrooms, a living space that actually invites you to sit down, a dining table for proper meals in, which you’ll do more than expected once you’ve clocked what’s on the doorstep. The top floor opens onto a roof terrace that becomes the default gathering spot for the whole weekend without anyone deciding it should be. Morning coffee, pre-dinner drinks, the kind of late-night conversation that only happens once everyone’s stopped moving. It makes you slow down without realising, which in London is a rare thing. Worth knowing before you allocate rooms: the terrace connects to the top floor bedroom rather than sitting as a shared space. Sort that one out early.
Good to know: Eight minutes to Notting Hill Gate. Residential setting — evenings need to stay low-key. Roof terrace is attached to the top bedroom, not communal.
From £980 per night
Nottinghill Mews House, Portobello Road
SLEEPS 8-10
Right off Portobello Road (the bookshop is basically next door), this four-bed mews is peak Notting Hill fantasy – cobbled street, pastel houses, the whole film set energy.
Inside, it’s clean, modern and actually comfortable to stay in (not always a given). Three king rooms, one queen, good linens, and a layout that works when there’s eight of you getting ready at once. Upstairs is your main space – open-plan kitchen/living, two bedrooms, and a very good bathroom moment. Downstairs has its own kitchen, sitting room and two more bedrooms, so you can split the group without it feeling cramped. Best bit: you’re straight out onto Portobello for coffee, vintage, and a slightly chaotic wander that turns into lunch and then somehow drinks. A really easy, very good London base.
Good to know: Busy tourist area outside, but the marina is calm. Worth knowing about the air con situation if you’re booking in July.
From £1,240 per night
The Camden House, Camden
SLEEPS 12–14
Four bedrooms for fourteen people. That’s the information you need upfront, and either it works for your group or it doesn’t. If it does — if everyone’s easy about sharing, already planning to be out most of the time, and on the same page about what the weekend actually is — this is a very good option. You’re minutes from Camden Market, the canal, live music venues, and late food, in a neighbourhood where the plan has always been to see where the night goes. The house is warm and eclectic — layered, lived-in, a lot of artwork — with a main living space that holds everyone and a kitchen that’s surprisingly well-stocked for a house that probably sees a lot of people treating it as a crash pad. The garden is a quieter corner that gets used more than expected, usually on the morning after. It’s not trying to be perfect. It fits the kind of weekend where perfect was never really the brief.
Good to know: Fourteen people across four bedrooms means shared setups — sort this before arrival, not on the night. Central Camden with easy transport links throughout.
From £765 per person
The Shoreditch Warehouse, Shoreditch
SLEEPS 10–12
One bathroom. No doors between the sleeping areas. Right in the middle of Shoreditch. Luxe is a stretch, but cool? Cool is exactly right. The bedrooms — and “bedrooms” is doing some work here — are partitioned rather than walled, which makes the whole thing feel somewhere between a loft and a grown-up sleepover. It’s chaotic in the best way for the right group, and genuinely testing for the wrong one. Upstairs is a proper living space: drinks, takeaway, someone finding something questionable to put on. The location means everything is within five minutes — you could leave the house with no plan whatsoever and have a full evening. Which is more or less the point. The building entrance won’t impress anyone and the finish isn’t polished, but inside it settles into its own thing quickly. Groups who are already on the same wavelength and not expecting any privacy will have a brilliant time. Everyone else should probably look at the Fulham house.
Good to know: One bathroom. No separation between sleeping areas. Shoreditch-level street noise throughout.
From £1,015 per night
The Old Street Loft, Shoreditch
SLEEPS 8–10
The terrace is the reason. A proper rooftop — not a balcony with two chairs — where the sun actually hits, there’s room to sit and eat and stay longer than planned, and you get that specific London feeling of being above it all for a minute. Everything else is very good: exposed beams, wooden floors, one open-plan space that holds a group without anyone feeling squeezed, en-suites that make mornings easy. Seconds from Old Street, right in the middle of everything. The rules are aggressive and non-negotiable. No celebrations, no extra guests, no testing the limits. It’s for groups who want a very good base in a great location — not a venue. If your hen weekend involves any kind of organised chaos, this will penalise you for it. If it doesn’t, you’ll love it.
Good to know: Third floor, no lift — not the weekend to overpack. Strict no-party policy with penalties. The terrace earns everything.
From £1,007 per person
