We are architecture junkies here at Hazlitt’s Hotels. Throughout their long lives, Peter McKay and Douglas Blain (our founders), have fallen for basket-case buildings and set about finding new uses for them. More than 30 years ago, they bought a Georgian terrace in London’s Soho that they didn’t know how to fix or what to do with.

Hazlitt’s is now one of the world’s best-known, best-loved small hotels. The Rookery and Batty Langley’s, equally central, are just as popular, so we must have got something right.

At Hazlitt’s, our philosophy is simple. We have set out to create the kind of accommodation that we ourselves would love to find in the heart of the world’s great cities. Civilised surroundings, old-fashioned hospitality: friendly, efficient service, a location away from the roar of traffic but within a very short walk of the most important tourist attractions.