Where is The Langham, London?

At 1C Portland Place, in Marylebone, London. The nearest Tube station is Oxford Circus, on the Bakerloo, Central and Victoria lines.

Which museums and sights are near The Langham, London?

The British Museum is 1.2 km away, The National Gallery is 1.5 km away, London Eye is 2.3 km away. Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.

Does The Langham, London have a swimming pool?

Yes. It has a sixteen-metre swimming pool in the Chuan Spa, in what was once a bank vault.

When did The Langham, London open?

In 1865. It has 380 rooms and suites.

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The Langham, London

When the Langham opened it was the largest and most modern hotel in the city, with a hundred water closets, thirty-six bathrooms and the first hydraulic lifts in England. Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and Arthur Conan Doyle all came here.

Class: Five-star hotel
Opened: 1865
Rooms: 380 rooms and suites
Area: Portland Place, at the top of Regent Street

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What sets The Langham, London apart

The Palm Court
Afternoon tea has been served in this room since 1865, and the hotel claims it as the place where the custom of taking it in a hotel began.
A literary dinner
In August 1889 an American publisher gave dinner here to Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle. Each went home with a commission: one wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray, the other The Sign of Four.
The BBC years
After the war the hotel was used by the BBC, whose Broadcasting House is across the road, as offices and studios. It became a hotel again in 1991.
Regent Street
The door faces All Souls church and the curve of Regent Street. Oxford Circus is three minutes south and Regent's Park ten minutes north.

What it has

Afternoon tea in Palm Court
Artesian bar
Chuan Spa
Swimming pool
Cookery school

Where The Langham, London is

Address

1C Portland Place
London W1B 1JA, United Kingdom

Nearest Tube

Oxford Circus, on the Bakerloo, Central and Victoria lines

Museums and sights nearby

Distances are in a straight line from the hotel.

The first of the grand hotels

The Langham was built between 1863 and 1865 to the design of John Giles and opened on 10 June 1865 by the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII. It had six hundred rooms then.

It was badly damaged in the Blitz, served the BBC for forty years, and was restored and reopened in 1991. It is the flagship of the Hong Kong group that took its name.