The Lanesborough

The Lanesborough Hotel
The Lanesborough from Hyde Park Corner
Location within Central London
General information
Location	Hyde Park Corner, Knightsbridge, London
Coordinates	51°30′9″N 0°9′10″W / 51.50250°N 0.15278°W / 51.50250; -0.15278
Opening	1991
Management	Oetker Collection
Other information
Number of rooms	93
Number of suites	43
Number of restaurants	1
Website
www.thelanesborough.co.uk

Coordinates: 51°30′9″N 0°9′10″W / 51.50250°N 0.15278°W / 51.50250; -0.15278

The Lanesborough is a 5-star hotel on Hyde Park Corner, Knightsbridge, central London, England. Operated by the Oetker Collection, the hotel is reputedly the most expensive hotel in London. Opposite are Hyde Park and Apsley House, the London home of the Dukes of Wellington. The hotel is next to Hyde Park Corner tube station and the Lanesborough was closed for renovation in December 2013 and re-opened in 2015. Furniture for the original opening was supplied by Arthur Brett and Sons - who again made some of the furniture for the refurbishment.

St George's Hospital was opened in the original Lanesborough House in 1733. By the 1800s the hospital was falling into disrepair. Lanesborough House was demolished to make way for a new 350-bed facility. Building began in 1827 under architect William Wilkins. The new hospital was operational by 1844, serving continuously as a hospital until transferred to Tooting, south London in the 1970s, leaving the Hyde Park Corner premises vacant in 1980. Rosewood Hotels & Resorts refurbished and re-opened the building as a hotel in 1991. Ten years later the management contract passed to Starwood's St Regis operation as its first and only hotel in England. The hotel left Starwood in November 2014 and is currently managed by the Oetker Collection.