Why you should experience Novotel London West in London, England.
Novotel London West is a dynamic conference hotel where Hammersmith's performance culture, international connectivity, commercial energy and large-scale hospitality tradition converge within one of West London's most substantial hotel complexes.
Set along Shortlands near Hammersmith Road and just steps from Eventim Apollo, the hotel opened in 1973 during the formative international expansion of Novotel, six years after Paul Dubrule and Gérard Pélisson introduced the first Novotel at Lille Lesquin in 1967. The Hammersmith property emerged as the young French company was rapidly translating an American-influenced approach to standardized modern hospitality into increasingly ambitious European hotels, part of the expansion that preceded the creation of Accor in 1983. Hammersmith subsequently developed into one of London's most concentrated performance and exhibition districts, placing the hotel between the entertainment history of Eventim Apollo and the international exhibition culture of Olympia London. The result is a hotel where Paul Dubrule, Gérard Pélisson, Novotel and Hammersmith's performance economy connect a 1970s hospitality experiment with more than half a century of international hotel growth.
What you should know about Novotel London West.
Novotel London West is best known for operating 630 bedrooms alongside 40 dedicated conference, meeting and event spaces spanning 5,000 square meters, with the contemporary events configuration capable of accommodating as many as 4,000 delegates across the property simultaneously. The program includes the 1,726-square-meter Champagne Suite, a six-meter-high modular plenary capable of dividing into seven spaces, and the 1,360-square-meter Chablis Suite exhibition hall, establishing a physical scale that places the hotel among London's major hotel-based conference operations. Conference & Events Awards named Novotel London West its 2025 Most Versatile Venue winner, while London Venue & Catering Awards awarded the property Bronze for Best Event Venue over 750 Attendees and West London Chambers named it a 2025 Best Business for Hospitality & Leisure winner. The hotel subsequently entered Cvent's 2026 Top 50 Meeting Hotels in Europe at number 47, extending a sequence of industry recognition centered specifically on its conference operation. General Manager Ioannis Koletakis was separately named a finalist for General Manager of the Year at the 2026 beam Awards, connecting the property's institutional recognition with named contemporary leadership.
Executive Head Chef Omkar Mestry provides the strongest culinary authorship within the property, overseeing its food operation while developing Artisan around charcoal cooking and ingredient provenance. Artisan's kitchen focuses on flame-grilled meat and fish, while Aroma establishes a separate international dining program and Mirrors Bar & Terrace completes the hotel's principal food-and-drink collection. Director of Food and Beverage Otto Horvath leads the wider dining operation, while Elaine Ranahan serves as Director of Sales & Marketing within the team supporting the property's large conference business. Omkar Mestry's kitchen operates at a scale extending beyond conventional restaurant service into the banqueting requirements generated by thousands of delegates, giving culinary production a direct relationship with the hotel's defining conference identity. Together, Omkar Mestry, Otto Horvath, Elaine Ranahan and Ioannis Koletakis provide a named contemporary leadership structure behind a property whose scale has made meetings, food and hospitality inseparable parts of the Novotel London West identity.
How to fold Novotel London West into your trip.
Novotel London West works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing Victorian design, performance architecture and the artistic culture that developed along the Thames at Hammersmith.
Begin at William Morris Society, based at Kelmscott House, where William Morris lived from 1878 until his death in 1896 and developed work spanning textile design, literature, printing and politics while his nearby Kelmscott Press became one of the defining enterprises of the Arts and Crafts movement. Continue to Emery Walker's House, where photographer and typographer Emery Walker lived within an interior shaped by his friendship with Morris and a wider circle encompassing figures including Philip Webb and William De Morgan, preserving an unusually intimate expression of Hammersmith's Arts and Crafts culture. Conclude at Eventim Apollo, where architect Robert Cromie designed the former Gaumont Palace cinema opened in 1932, creating an Art Deco auditorium that later became Hammersmith Odeon and accumulated a performance history associated with artists including David Bowie, Queen and Kate Bush. The progression moves from Morris and Walker's creative circle into Cromie's architecture for mass entertainment, revealing the unusually rich relationship between design, craftsmanship and performance surrounding Novotel London West.
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