Experience A Life Beyond the Ordinary
Stay at Raffles London and a week here opens out into a season of its own. Live at The OWO and a Tuesday becomes a morning at the spa, a private chef in the evening, the Whitehall Ballroom lit for a gala celebration. Behind the Portland stone façade, an entire world is arranged around you – at your pace, in your time.
exclusive residence experiences
For those who call The OWO home, a private circle opens. British makers whose craft is already part of the building – Smallbone of Devizes in the kitchen, Halcyon Days’ enamel at hand. A dedicated lifestyle programme follows the year: evenings with Bovet in the penthouse, Aston Martin unveilings, private views arranged only for residents. The access an address alone confers.
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Wellness
Three floors below street level, the Guerlain Spa opens into twenty thousand square feet of hushed, scented calm. A twenty-metre pool lit from above, a vitality pool alongside, sauna, steam, nine treatment rooms of polished plaster and antiqued brass. At ground level, L’Atelier Guerlain offers express facials, fragrance and the craft of SALON64. Paris’s two-century art, translated to London.
Fitness
Pillar Wellbeing moves the body as Guerlain stills it. A gym dressed in timber and polished stone, a movement studio for yoga, Pilates and strength work, a recovery zone for physiotherapy and soft tissue. Personal trainers, nutritionists and specialists compose programmes to your own objectives – several drawn from the world of professional sport. Fitness here is a practice, quietly kept.
Weddings
A wedding at The OWO is written in Portland stone. The Grand Staircase for the procession, the Whitehall Ballroom for six hundred guests, a Heritage Suite for the night that follows. A dedicated planning team composes every moment alongside you – from the first call to the last dance. A day remembered in the language of a landmark.
Events
London’s largest hotel ballroom sits within these walls – the Whitehall Ballroom, seating six hundred beneath restored Edwardian mouldings. Alongside: The Heritage Gallery, Morse & Code, and The Lawrence for smaller gatherings. The Drawing Room and Pillar Kitchen open for private hire; The Spy Bar opens by invitation. A state dinner, a brand launch, a private recital – each at home here.
Heritage tours
Two ways to explore this historic landmark. Tea and Tour takes in the hotel itself – an hour with a Heritage Ambassador among the staircases, corridors and stories never before seen by the public, finishing with afternoon tea in The Drawing Room. Step into the world of intrigue and espionage with Secrets & Spies Tours, which step out into Whitehall to trace the street’s deeper history before returning to The OWO for tea.
Afternoon Tea
Tea is served in The Drawing Room – panelled, firelit, its windows opening onto the Household Cavalry. Secrets & Spies is the menu at its heart: a pocket watch cast in chocolate, pastries drawn from the stories of the wartime agents whose names grace the suites above, scones with Cornish clotted cream. The English tradition, told through the lens of Whitehall.
