Park Plaza London Riverbank

Why you should experience Park Plaza London Riverbank in London, England.

Park Plaza London Riverbank is a metropolitan riverside hotel where Lambeth's Thames heritage, cultural institutions, metropolitan scale and contemporary South Bank energy converge within a high-rise hospitality address facing Westminster across the river.

Set along Albert Embankment near Lambeth High Street and just steps from Tate Britain across the Thames, the hotel opened in April 2005 as one of PPHE Hotel Group's major early London developments, initially containing 461 rooms within a purpose-developed riverside property. The opening belonged to PPHE's intensive 2003 to 2006 expansion period, when the group developed Park Plaza London Riverbank while adding properties in Leeds, Nottingham, Cardiff and other British markets after establishing its strategic relationship with Carlson for the Park Plaza brand. The hotel subsequently became one of PPHE's defining South Bank properties, establishing the group on a stretch of the Thames whose cultural transformation had accelerated from the Festival of Britain in 1951 through the arrival of major arts institutions and the London Eye around the millennium. The result is a hotel where PPHE Hotel Group, Park Plaza and the cultural evolution of the South Bank place a large contemporary hospitality operation within Lambeth's continuing relationship with the Thames.

What you should know about Park Plaza London Riverbank.

Park Plaza London Riverbank is best known for opening in April 2005 with 461 rooms before PPHE Hotel Group undertook a major vertical expansion that added six floors and reconfigured the existing building, ultimately increasing the property to 646 rooms and suites by 2018. The expansion originated in a 2014 building contract for a six-storey addition, with the initial program encompassing 148 new rooms before wider reconfiguration increased the net addition to 185 rooms, while the project also reshaped the first-floor restaurant and meeting areas. PPHE simultaneously committed £6.7 million in 2016 to refurbishment of the existing public spaces, creating the contemporary first-floor restaurant overlooking the Thames as the enlarged hotel moved into its next operating era. The completed repositioning became sufficiently important within PPHE's portfolio for the group to identify Park Plaza London Riverbank as its principal UK repositioning project of 2018, while a December 2020 Savills valuation placed the 646-room property at £263 million. PPHE's 2005 opening, the six-floor expansion, 185-room net increase, £6.7 million public-space program, 646-room final scale and £263 million Savills valuation establish Park Plaza London Riverbank as one of the group's most consequential London developments.

Head Chef Ederson Bonasso supplies the hotel's principal contemporary culinary authorship through Chino Latino London, the multi-award-winning restaurant that combines Pan-Asian cooking with Peruvian influences from its first-floor position overlooking the Thames. Bonasso's menu moves through black cod with spicy miso, sirloin cooked on hot rocks, sushi and sashimi, building the restaurant's character around Japanese and wider Asian techniques threaded with Latin American flavors. Chino Latino has operated in London for more than a decade, while its relationship with Park Plaza London Riverbank deepened when PPHE's expansion transferred the restaurant into the remodeled first-floor space with panoramic river views. Together, Ederson Bonasso, Chino Latino, PPHE Hotel Group and Park Plaza give the property a culinary and hospitality character that has evolved in parallel with the building's expansion from its original 2005 form into one of the group's largest London hotels.

How to fold Park Plaza London Riverbank into your trip.

Park Plaza London Riverbank works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing British art, horticultural collecting and the institutional memory of conflict through Lambeth and the Thames corridor.

Begin at Tate Britain, where sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate provided the collection and funding behind the National Gallery of British Art, opened on Millbank in 1897 within Sidney R. J. Smith's classical building before the institution became Tate Britain in 2000 and concentrated its character around British art. Continue to Garden Museum, where Rosemary and John Nicholson founded the Museum of Garden History in 1977 to rescue St. Mary-at-Lambeth from demolition, preserving a site containing the tomb of seventeenth-century plant collector John Tradescant and a medieval tower dating to 1377, the oldest surviving structure in Lambeth. Conclude at Imperial War Museum, created after the Cabinet authorized a National War Museum in 1917, formally established by Parliament in 1920 and opened by King George V at Crystal Palace before the Duke of York reopened it in 1936 inside the former Bethlem Royal Hospital in Lambeth. The progression moves from Sir Henry Tate's national collection through the Tradescants and the Nicholsons' preservation of gardening history into an institution created during the First World War, revealing the unusually dense artistic, horticultural and historical culture surrounding Park Plaza London Riverbank.

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