Find your bearings
Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London sits on the junction of the smartest streets in Knightsbridge – Sloane Street leading to Chelsea, and Brompton Road to South Kensington – so it’s no wonder it draws a chic crowd. Here, city go-getters close deals over oysters, urban trendsetters admire shop windows created by the fashion elite, and locals cradle sausage dogs in Chanel handbags. A pavement table at one of Motcomb Street’s cute cafés is the ideal vantage point to take it all in, accompanied by slices of artisanal cheese at Fine Cheese Co. or a cup of creamy hot chocolate at ococo.