The new "Six Senses London" is located in the former department store "The Whiteley". It has just opened its doors - Falstaff TRAVEL takes a look inside the new design jewel that is set to upgrade the Queensway shopping street.
Six Senses London opened its doors at the beginning of March 2026 and is the brand's first hotel in the United Kingdom. The location: "The Whiteley", the historic department store on Queensway in Bayswater, just a few steps away from Hyde Park and Notting Hill.
The traditional department store in London's Bayswater district has been the heart of the Queensway shopping street since it opened in 1911. Once one of the most important department stores in the British capital in the Art Deco style, the building is currently being extensively redeveloped as a mixed-use project. Founder William Whiteley's fascination with the Great Exhibition of 1851 is visible in the style of the building with its glass dome.
The "Six Senses London" has now moved in here. The hotel comprises 109 rooms and suites, many with private terraces, as well as 14 residences. The highlight is the "Whiteley Suite" with its 125-square-meter roof terrace. The designers and architects from "AvroKO" and "EPR Architects" have preserved the listed façade and carefully reinterpreted the hotel's Art Deco heritage. Generous windows, glass rain showers, deep blue accents and warm wooden surfaces meet clean lines. In the center of the hotel is the imposing staircase, once the defining element of the original department store. It has been restored and now leads over three floors up to the glass dome.
The "Six Senses Spa London" creates a place for training and regeneration on 2,300 square meters. London's first 20-meter-long hotel magnesium pool is located here; a dip in it supports muscle regeneration and the nervous system.
A fitness studio and several yoga studios create space for exercise. Thirteen wellness areas and six treatment rooms as well as the "Biohacking Recovery Lounge" offer various treatments. Guests can also help themselves at the "Alchemy Bar" and have local herbs transformed into tinctures and tonics that are used in treatments.
At "Whiteley's Kitchen, Bar & Café", Executive Chef Eliano Crespi and Head Chef Jose Jara reinterpret British cuisine - with a focus on vegetables, using traditional preservation and firing techniques. An in-house fermentation laboratory produces ferments and koji cultures. The signature drink in the "Alchemy Bar" is the "Clouds Over Islay" - it combines Bruichladdich whisky with homemade amazake and lemon hydrosol. The wine program focuses on British producers and independent winemakers, with wines that reflect the character of their origins and complement the seasonal philosophy of the cuisine.
The new hotel is part of a regeneration of the Queensway shopping street. "The Whiteley London" comprises almost 93,900 square meters of mixed-use space, including almost 140 apartments and 19 selected retail brands.
