London's best hotels with pools

As luxurious as its name suggests, this new-build hotel on the edge of Hyde Park is sleek and contemporary, with riffs on its jewellery connection in the historic Bulgari patterns on the guest room fabrics and the touches of silver throughout. The serene underground pool space – with its green-mosaic-tiled, 25m pool, cabanas and walls of textured Vicenza stone – has something of a mid-century Palm Springs vibe. A vitality pool with body-massage jets is lined in tiny tiles of gold-leaf glass.

The most recent hotel opening from Soho House members’ club – joining Dean Street Townhouse and High Road House – might even be the best, perfectly catching the local atmosphere with its unfussy, slightly retro design. The rooms feel a bit like urban beach huts, with pastel-coloured tongue- and-groove, shutters and swing doors to the en suite showers. They feel fresh, bright and comfortable, even though they’re furnished with little more than a bed, an old-fashioned phone and DAB radio, and a big, solid dresser (minibar, hairdryer and treats within, flatscreen TV on top). Guests get access to the fine eating, drinking and fitness facilities (yes, there is a gym, but more importantly an excellent rooftop pool) in the members’ club next door. Everything’s put together with a light touch, from the ‘Borrow Me’ bookshelf by the lifts (jelly beans, umbrellas, boardgames) to the room grades: Tiny (from just £105), Small or Small+ (with little rooftop balconies from which to survey the grey horizon).