A spa with London’s first hotel magnesium pool and the first Six Senses Place members’ club fill the old Whiteley’s department store on Queensway, the brand’s first hotel in Britain.
The grand staircase of Whiteley’s department store was taken apart, lengthened and rebuilt by hand in Devon. It is back on Queensway now, climbing three floors to a glass dome. Around it, Six Senses has made its first hotel in Britain.
Six Senses in The Whiteley
Six Senses London opened on 1 March 2026 in The Whiteley, the old Whiteley’s emporium in Bayswater, a short walk from Hyde Park. It has 109 rooms and suites, 14 branded residences and the first Six Senses Place, the brand’s members’ club. The hotel takes a quarter of the building, which Foster + Partners redesigned behind its Grade II listed façade.
The interiors are by AvroKO with EPR Architects. Six Senses says they draw on William Whiteley’s fascination with the Great Exhibition of 1851, with industry and invention under one roof. Adam Farmerie of AvroKO set deep greens into the lobby marble where the period would have used black and white, and filled the store’s old display vitrines with plants.
Six Senses Place sits above the lobby, open to members and hotel guests. It runs to a programme the brand calls the Almanac: gatherings timed to the seasons, talks and shared meals.
The rooms and suites pair Art Deco curves with glass rain showers, and many have their own terraces. At the top, the Whiteley Suite has a 125-square-metre roof terrace and can be extended into a private floor.
A spa with a magnesium pool
The spa covers 2,300 square metres on one level below the hotel. Six Senses says its magnesium pool is the first in a London hotel, and a 20-metre indoor pool, a hammam, flotation and cryotherapy sit beside it.
At the Alchemy Bar, the head alchemist Charlotte Pulver has guests turn locally foraged herbs into tinctures and tonics, which the hotel then uses in its treatments and its bars. A Biohack Recovery Lounge has compression boots and inversion tables. On the first floor, HUM2N, the longevity clinic founded by Dr Mohammed Enayat, has blood tests, IV nutrient therapy and a hyperbaric chamber.
Whiteley’s Kitchen
The ground floor is Whiteley’s Kitchen, Bar and Café, named for the store’s founder. The executive chef, Eliano Crespi, and the head chef, Jose Jara, cook British food built on fire and preservation, with vegetables to the fore. A fermentation lab makes everything from fruit preserves to koji, and the eggs come from Orchard Eggs and the dairy from The Estate Dairy.
Every cocktail at the bar can be made with or without alcohol. The signature, Clouds Over Islay, mixes Bruichladdich whisky with amazake and a lemon hydrosol made with the Alchemy Bar, so it is the drink that ties the bar to the spa. Until the end of the year the kitchen also runs a chef’s table at lunch and dinner, served beside the kitchen as the chefs cook.
Chef’s table at Whiteley’s Kitchen from 1 October to 31 December 2026, lunch and dinner, £78 per person, for two guests or more.
Six Senses London, The Whiteley, Queensway, London.
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