Marking the brand’s UK debut, Six Senses London has opened its doors within The Whiteley, the former Whiteley’s emporium on Bayswater’s Queensway.

The hotel brings together 109 rooms and suites, many with private terraces, alongside 14 branded residences. Crowning the hotel, the Whiteley Suite, with its distinctive 125m² roof terrace, offers the option to create a private floor.

Designed by AvroKo in collaboration with EPR Architects, Six Senses London preserves the Whiteley’s original Grade II listed façade while maintaining its Art Deco heritage and taking inspiration from William Whiteley’s fascination with the Great Exhibition of 1851. Throughout the hotel, glass rain showers, towering windows, inky blues and warm woods blend with bold lines and Art Deco curves.

At the hotel’s centre rises the restored grand staircase, once the defining feature of the original department store. Deconstructed, lengthened and rebuilt by hand in Devon by Foster + Partners in collaboration with The Hub, it now ascends through three floors up to the glass-domed ceiling.

“Six Senses London draws from the visual language of the Great Exhibition era, which often relied on black and white contrast,” comments Adam Farmerie, Partner of AvroKo.  “Rather than replicate that palette, we introduced deep greens into the lobby marble and architectural detailing, reframing the period through a natural lens. Vitrines remain, but plant life now occupies them. Transparency, from the staircase to the glass shower pods in the rooms, allows light to move freely through the building and shifts the emporium from spectacle to immersion.”

As in all Six Senses properties, wellness is infused into the entire guest journey. The 2,300m² Six Senses Spa London features London’s first hotel magnesium pool – which supports muscular recovery and nervous system regulation – as well as a 20m indoor swimming pool, a 325m² fitness centre and dedicated yoga and mindful movement studios.

A total of 13 wellness spaces and six treatment rooms encompass cryotherapy, flotation, red-light therapies, a traditional hammam and a sensory suite. The Biohack Recovery Lounge, designed as a reset shortcut for performance and recovery, offers personalised blends using PEMF therapy, sound loungers, compression boots, lymphatic suits, electro muscle stimulation, vibration platforms and inversion tables.

Furthermore, an integrated Wellness Centre offers private consultations and advanced functional screenings, including biomarker analysis and lifestyle evaluation, forming the foundation for sleep regulation, metabolic health, cognitive performance and stress management.

The Alchemy Bar – led by Head Alchemist Charlotte Pulver – functions as a contemporary apothecary, guided by the Anglo-Celtic calendar. Here, guests are invited to transform locally foraged herbs into tinctures and tonics used across treatments, restaurants and bars and steam and hammam rituals.

To further enhance the hotel’s wellness offering, Six Senses London has partnered with HUM2N, the longevity clinic founded by Dr. Mohammed Enayat. Situated on the first floor, it provides advanced blood diagnostics, IV nutrient therapy, hormone optimisation and performance-focused health protocols. This is complemented by a hyperbaric chamber designed to simulate altitude conditions and support cellular adaptation in a clinically supervised environment within the hotel.

Six Senses London also features the world’s first Six Senses Place. Located above the lobby, the social and wellness members’ club extends the brand’s reconnection philosophy into an urban context, offering space to switch off and engage in experiences that feel restorative rather than performative.

Forming part of the BREEAM-certified redevelopment of The Whiteley London, Six Senses London is supported by infrastructure that includes rainwater harvesting, energy-efficient systems and more than 1,150m² of green roof space designed to enhance biodiversity and urban cooling.

The Whiteley London is a mixed-use development spanning more than one million ft², comprising 139 unique homes, over 60,000ft² of amenities and a collection of 19 commercial brands, in addition to the Six Senses hotel.

Occupying an entire city block, its reimagining has been led by development managers Valouran, with joint venture investment partners MARK and C C Land and architecture by Foster + Partners.

Beyond the building, The Whiteley forms part of the wider £3 billion regeneration of Queensway, delivering public realm improvements, enhanced connectivity and a renewed retail and hospitality offering.