Ham Yard Hotel

Important Bits

Type
Boutique luxury.
Vibe
Like being at the home of a successful and welcoming interior designer friend. It’s full on colour clashing prints everywhere you look, which is not my normal vibe, but it works here.
Location
Could not be a more central location, situated down a very quiet side street that I didn’t know existed until the hotel opened there.
Rooms
91 hotel rooms & suites and 24 hotel apartments.
Music
Nothing noticeable – which is a good thing.
Year Opened
Early 2015
Designed By
The very colorful ‘more is more’ aesthetic of Ham Yard is the work of its co-owner Kit Kemp, who is an internationally acclaimed interiors expert and designer. She’s designed everything from the fabrics to the wallpaper, and also found the time to write a couple of books on the subject.

Health & Wellness
The hotel has a full spa and treatment center, plus great little gym with personal trainers available on request and a special ‘Hypoxic’ studio – a space that advances stamina by simulating the lack of oxygen experienced training at high altitude. Or more appropriately given the hotel’s location, the London Underground…
Restaurant
There is a restaurant and it was always pumping. I didn’t make dinner but ate breakfast in the hotel twice and it was delicious, with all the subtle differences you notice in luxury hotels vs other hotels. A small example that stood out being that ’fruit’ for breakfast at Ham Yard meant generous bowls of all different berries, fresh mango, figs etc. ‘Fruit’ in a lot of hotel’s usually means a bowl of chopped up apple and melon in some kind of cold sugary liquid. They also asked how well scrambled I wanted my scrambled eggs scrambled. No one has ever asked me that before.
Bar
There is definitely a bar, I counted at least three. The ceiling-high orange juicer that rollercoasters down two levels to the basement bar is probably the worlds most instagram’d juicer, and for good reason.
Minibar
A very thoughtfully curated selection of high quality booze and snacks, as well as some of the hotel’s own brand of ‘Rik Rak’ products such as the scented candles, that fill the hotel with an aroma best described as both ‘expensive and relaxing.’
Children
Leave them at home.
Price
It’s not cheap, but London isn’t cheap. Rooms start about 380 (UK pounds per night). We had room number 316, which is the luxury junior suite category (around 550 UK pounds a night) and was such a nice room that we canceled dinner plans and had room-service cheeseburgers in bed instead.