Where is Raffles London at The OWO?

At 57 Whitehall, in Westminster, London. The nearest Tube station is Charing Cross, on the Bakerloo and Northern lines, or Embankment.

Which museums and sights are near Raffles London at The OWO?

The National Gallery is 450 m away, London Eye is 500 m away, Westminster Abbey is 650 m away. Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.

Does Raffles London at The OWO have a swimming pool?

Yes. It has a twenty-metre swimming pool in a spa on four floors below the building.

When did Raffles London at The OWO open?

In 2023. It has 120 rooms and suites.

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Raffles London at The OWO

For more than a century the public could not enter this building. It was the War Office, finished in 1906, with a thousand rooms and four kilometres of corridors, and the men who worked in it included Kitchener, Lloyd George and Winston Churchill.

Class: Five-star hotel
Opened: 2023
Rooms: 120 rooms and suites
Area: Whitehall, opposite Horse Guards

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What sets Raffles London at The OWO apart

The grand staircase
A double stair of marble and alabaster under a great chandelier, up which ministers climbed to their offices. It is the first thing you see.
The ministers' rooms
The offices of the secretaries of state, panelled in oak, are now suites. One was Churchill's when he was Secretary of State for War from 1919 to 1921.
The spy connection
The forerunners of MI5 and MI6 had rooms here, and Ian Fleming, who worked for naval intelligence in the war, knew the building. A bar in the basement is named for the spies' entrance.
Whitehall
The Household Cavalry mount guard on horseback across the road. Trafalgar Square is five minutes one way and Downing Street three minutes the other.

What it has

Nine restaurants and three bars
Guerlain spa
Twenty-metre swimming pool
The Drawing Room
Courtyard

Where Raffles London at The OWO is

Address

57 Whitehall
London SW1A 2BX, United Kingdom

Nearest Tube

Charing Cross, on the Bakerloo and Northern lines, or Embankment

Museums and sights nearby

Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.

The Old War Office

The War Office was built between 1899 and 1906 to the design of William Young, on an awkward four-sided plot that gives each corner turret a different angle. The army's affairs were run from it through two world wars.

The Ministry of Defence sold a long lease in 2016. After six years of restoration the building opened as a Raffles hotel in September 2023, with private flats above.