The Savoy

The Savoy is a luxury hotel on the Strand in the City of Westminster, central London, with views across the River Thames. It is managed by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, has 267 guest rooms and is a Grade II listed building.

La Liste's 2025 ranking of the ten best hotels in the world lists it at No. 3. Time Out's report on the list mentions it as the Grade II-listed Savoy, one of two London hotels in the top ten.

The impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte built it with profits from his Gilbert and Sullivan productions, and it opened on 6 August 1889. It was the first hotel in Britain with electric light throughout and electric lifts, and Carte hired César Ritz as manager and Auguste Escoffier as head chef. Guests and performers over the years included George Gershwin, Frank Sinatra, Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe, and Winston Churchill often took his cabinet there for lunch.

Sources of this text: Wikipedia · La Liste (France)