The New Points Hotels Coming to London — and the Ones Already Open (2026)

The quiet success of this list. Opened on 26 May 2026 as the anchor of the £1.3bn Olympia London regeneration in West Kensington, the Hyatt Regency is built — improbably — inside a converted 1930s multi-storey car park, with around 200 rooms and suites, a restaurant, bar and market, and a clutch of meeting rooms. It is not trying to be a destination hotel, and the location is exhibition-and-Kensington rather than postcard London. What it is, is the best-value points redemption in the city by a distance.

As a fixed Category 5 property it costs 17,000 / 20,000 / 23,000 points a night (off-peak / standard / peak) for a standard room — a number that does not move when cash rates spike for a trade fair next door. With central-London cash rates regularly north of £300, that is a redemption approaching 1.8p a point: among the strongest value in a programme that has spent the year raising its chart.

Hilton's tenth UK Curio Collection property opened this spring on Great Tower Street, in the heart of the Square Mile. The Derby leans into a playful City-of-London theme — a bowler-hat design motif runs through the 234 rooms and thirteen suites — with an all-day restaurant, a coffee house, and a bar named Rycrofte's after a Tudor sergeant of the larder. It is a lifestyle business hotel rather than a grand one, and it is priced and pointed accordingly.

For Hilton Honors members this is the accessible everyday redemption London has lacked. Award nights start around 61,000 points, with cash rates from roughly £160 in a sale to £300-plus at peak — comfortably the lowest points entry of anything new in the city, and a property where the fifth-night-free benefit genuinely bites on a working week.

The most ambitious new opening in London by some margin. Six Senses made its UK debut on 1 March 2026 inside the restored Whiteley's — the grand Edwardian Bayswater department store — preserving the Grade II–listed façade and rebuilding the original sweeping staircase by hand. There are 109 rooms and suites plus fourteen branded residences, but the headline is the 2,300-square-metre spa: London's first hotel magnesium pool, a 20-metre lap pool, cryotherapy, flotation, a hammam, a longevity clinic and even a hyperbaric chamber. It is wellness taken to its logical extreme.

The two caveats are well documented on FlyerTalk and by the UK points press. First, location: Queensway and Bayswater are improving but still firmly "up and coming," and at £800-plus a night that gap matters. Second, opening teething — the indoor pool and thermal suite were temporarily closed for remedial works in the weeks after launch. On IHG One Rewards the room is bookable on points, but at roughly 0.4p a point an £800 night implies 200,000+ points; this is a cash-with-perks stay, not a redemption play.

The hotel that started the wave. Park Hyatt opened its first London property in late 2024 in the One Nine Elms tower — a polished, residential 203-room hotel with a 25-metre pool, a strong spa and the understated Park Hyatt service template. The physical product is widely praised; the location, less so. Nine Elms is a mixed-use cluster of new towers across the river from Pimlico, well served by Vauxhall and Battersea Power Station but a long way, in feel, from a flagship address. OMAAT's own review landed on "solid generic luxury."

The points story has just got harder. Park Hyatt London moved from Category 7 to Category 8 on the World of Hyatt chart in May 2026, lifting standard award nights to the top band — from around 35,000 points off-peak to 45,000 at peak. Still a fixed-chart redemption, and still good value against £600-plus cash rates, but no longer the bargain it was at launch.

The grandest of the recent arrivals, and the one that opened first — in September 2023, in the Old War Office on Whitehall. The Grade II*-listed Edwardian pile where Churchill and Ian Fleming once worked has been turned into 120 rooms and suites (plus 85 Raffles-branded residences), nine restaurants and bars including three by Mauro Colagreco, a Guerlain spa across four floors, and a ballroom. On sheer drama of building and depth of service it outclasses everything else here; it is also the most expensive, with lead rates routinely above £1,100.

The catch is the currency. Raffles sits inside Accor's ALL programme, which has no award chart — points are redeemed as a flat rebate (roughly €40 off per 2,000 points), so there is no "free night" to chase and no outsized redemption to engineer. Treat ALL points as a small discount and the loyalty value as status recognition; the real reason to book is the hotel itself, best secured on a cash rate with preferred-partner perks layered on.

Perhaps the most anticipated property in the entire Hilton portfolio, and it is easy to see why. Admiralty Arch — commissioned by Edward VII in memory of Queen Victoria, once home to Churchill's office and to Ian Fleming — stands at the end of The Mall, looking straight down to Buckingham Palace. After a glacial decade-long conversion it becomes a hotel for the first time: 114 rooms, suites and residences across 200,000 square feet, with Coreus by Clare Smyth and a rooftop Café Boulud by Daniel Boulud. No chain has ever opened inside a building like this.

It is now bookable, with an opening slated for autumn 2026 and reservations currently taken for stays from 1 March 2027 — a sensible buffer given the building's history of delay. The numbers surprised even the sceptics: cash from around £660 a night, cheaper than expected for the address. On Hilton Honors, expect a minimum of 160,000 points a night, falling to an effective 128,000 with the fifth-night-free benefit — not outsized value on Hilton's own currency, but for this building, many will pay it.

Marriott's flagship return to Mayfair, and the most central address on this list. The former Westbury — a Luxury Collection hotel on the corner of Bond Street and Conduit Street — is being rebuilt as a St. Regis after a £90m-plus ($122m) redevelopment that adds an eighth floor and extends the building. The result will carry 193 rooms, of which 66 are suites, with a French brasserie, Le Perroquet, by chef Daniel Rose, a lobby bar, spa and fitness centre. The opening, first promised for 2023, has slipped repeatedly; the current target is October 2026, with reservations open for stays from 1 December 2026 and cash rates from just over £750.

For Bonvoy collectors the appeal is twofold: the Mayfair location is the best on this list, and St. Regis honours elite benefits better than Ritz-Carlton — Platinum members and above get free breakfast and can deploy Suite Night Awards. The risk is dynamic Bonvoy pricing in a peak-cost market; commentators expect punchy award rates and recommend free-night certificates and shoulder-season dates.