Editing Mayfair (section)

===Hotels===
Having opened in 1837, [[Brown's Hotel]] is considered one of London's oldest hotels.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicoletrilivas/2020/01/30/inside-browns-hotel-londons-oldest-hotel/ |title=Inside London's Oldest Hotel |first=Nicole |last=Trilivas |website=Forbes}}</ref> Straddling [[Albemarle Street|Albemarle]] and [[Dover Street|Dover]] streets, it is thought to have been a popular [[Afternoon tea|tea]] location for [[Queen Victoria]], and it was from the hotel that in 1876 [[Alexander Graham Bell]] made the first successful telephone call in Britain. Certain writers were known to stay there frequently; [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''[[The Jungle Book]]'' and [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''[[At Bertram's Hotel]]'' were each partly written during a visit to Brown's. [[Theodore Roosevelt]] enjoyed staying at the hotel and married his fiancée [[Edith Roosevelt]] with a reception there in 1886. Now part of [[Rocco Forte Hotels]], the Hotel maintains its popular tea room and has expanded to occupy 11 townhouses.<ref>{{cite web |title=The History of the Brown's Hotel in London – Rocco Forte |url=https://www.roccofortehotels.com/hotels-and-resorts/browns-hotel/story/ |website=www.roccofortehotels.com}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=September 2024}}

[[File:Claridges Hotel - geograph.org.uk - 1064579.jpg|thumb|left|[[Claridge's]]|alt=Corner view of the hotel Claridge's]]
[[Claridge's]] was founded in 1812 as Mivart's Hotel on [[Brook Street, London|Brook Street]]. It was acquired by William Claridge in 1855, who gave it its current name. The hotel was bought by the Savoy Company in 1895 and rebuilt in red brick. It was extended again in 1931. Several European royal families in exile stayed at the hotel during the Second World War. [[Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia]], was born there on 17 July 1945; the Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]] is said to have declared the suite he was born in to be Yugoslav territory.{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=192}}

[[Flemings Mayfair]] on [[Half Moon Street, London|Half Moon Street]] was opened in 1851 by Robert Fleming, who worked for [[Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey]]. It is the second-oldest independent hotel in London.<ref>{{cite news |title=Step Inside London's Second-Oldest Hotel Flemings Mayfair |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/bridgetarsenault/2018/06/09/step-inside-londons-second-oldest-hotel-flemings-mayfair/#1a95ba01a3ec |work=Forbes |date=9 June 2018 |access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref>

The London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square on the corner of Grosvenor Square and [[Duke Street, St James's|Duke Street]] was the first [[Marriott Hotels & Resorts|Marriott Hotel]] in Britain. It opened as the Europa Hotel in 1961 and was bought by Marriott in 1985. It was a popular place for visitors to the American Embassy.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/londt-london-marriott-hotel-grosvenor-square/ |title=London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square |website=Marriott International |language=en-US |access-date=5 June 2018}}</ref>

The [[Grosvenor House Hotel]] on Park Lane is on the former site of [[Grosvenor House]], the home of [[Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Earl Grosvenor]] (who later became the 1st Marquess of Westminster). It was built by [[Arthur Octavius Edwards]] in the 1920s and has over 450 bedrooms, with 150 luxury flats in the south wing. It was the first London hotel to have a swimming pool.{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|pp=358–9}}

[[The Dorchester]] is named after [[Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester]]. The first building here was erected by Joseph Damer in 1751, and renamed Dorchester House following the Earl's succession in 1792. The property was purchased by [[Sir Robert McAlpine|Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons]] and [[Gordon Hotels|Gordon Hotels Ltd]] in 1928 to be converted into a hotel, which opened on 18 April 1931. It was General [[Dwight Eisenhower]]'s London headquarters in the Second World War. The [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Duke of Edinburgh]] held his [[stag night]] at the hotel prior to his marriage to [[Elizabeth II|Princess Elizabeth]].{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=244}}

[[The May Fair Hotel]] opened in 1927 on the site of Devonshire House in [[Stratton Street]]. It also accommodates the May Fair Theatre, which opened in 1963.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.themayfairhotel.co.uk/may-fair-theatre_131-en.html |title=The May Fair Theatre private screening room |website=www.themayfairhotel.co.uk |access-date=7 March 2019}}</ref>{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|pp=536,679}}

[[The Ritz Hotel, London|The Ritz]] opened on Piccadilly on 24 May 1906. It was the first [[Modular building|steel-framed building]] to be constructed in London,{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=695}} and it is one of the most prestigious and best-known hotels in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.coventry.ac.uk/culc/culc-primary-news/london-campus-signs-collaborative-agreement-with-the-ritz-london/ |title=London Campus signs collaborative agreement with The Ritz London |publisher=Coventry University |date=30 April 2014 |access-date=3 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216045106/http://www.coventry.ac.uk/culc/culc-primary-news/london-campus-signs-collaborative-agreement-with-the-ritz-london/ |archive-date=16 February 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>