Park Lane Hotel, Piccadilly, W1

The British puritanical streak, which likes to equate the sybaritic luxury of Mayfair with criminality, is neatly summed up in the opening scene of Gangster No. 1, where Malcolm MacDowell – almost – drinks a flute of pee-contaminated champagne. The luxurious toilet was that of the Sheraton Park Lane. Hooker Cathy Tyson works the hotel in Mona Lisa.

But on the up-side, drink in the art deco splendour of its Silver Gallery, which stood in for the ‘Cafe Royal’ in Neil Jordan’s The End of the Affair.

Park Lane Hotel

The End Of The Affair (1999, dir: Neil Jordan)
Gangster No.1 (2000, dir: Paul McGuigan)
Mona Lisa (1986, dir: Neil Jordan)
Shanghai Surprise (1986, dir: Jim Goddard)
Revolver (2005, dir: Guy Ritchie)
The Golden Compass (2007, dir: Chris Weitz)