Claridge’s prices per night: Google’s year, month by month, and what the hotel’s own page asks

The spine of this page is Google Hotels’ calendar for one night and 2 adults, read on 11 October 2026: 352 nights with a price between 12 October 2026 and 30 September 2027. Each figure is the lowest price Google showed for that night. The calendar names neither the room nor the seller, and gives no word on a service charge, so read it as a floor for comparing dates. Half of the 352 nights stood at £867 or less. The median night was £1,268 in what was left of October, about £1,137 in November and £1,325 in December. Then the floor drops: £782 in January, about £785 in February, £782 in March and in April, £798 in May. June climbs to £1,110 and July sits at £1,013, before August and September settle at £867.

The cheapest stretch is short and exact: from 18 to 27 March 2027 all 10 nights showed between £706 and £728, with Sunday 21 March the lowest of the year. Around it lies a long plateau. From 3 January to 17 March, 63 of 74 nights stood between £775 and £812, and the highest of the 11 exceptions sit in February: £851 to £920 over 12 to 14 February, then £925, £1,299, £1,288 and £1,183 from Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 February. The dear nights sit in the last quarter of 2026. Only 4 of the 352 passed £2,000: Tuesday 13 October at £2,531, Saturday 21 November at £2,003, Thursday 10 December at £2,436 and Saturday 12 December at £3,194. Across the whole reading a Saturday’s median was £1,013 and a Friday’s £944, against £867 for every other day of the week.

We then opened Claridge’s own booking page for 3 of those nights, the same day. For Monday 16 November 2026 it listed a Superior Room from £1,122 a night, a Mayfair Room from £1,173 and a Claridge’s Room from £1,428, up to a Brook Suite from £6,120; Google’s lowest for that night was £1,012. For Sunday 21 March 2027, the cheapest night of Google’s year, the Superior Room began at £867 and the Mayfair Room at £944. For Saturday 12 December 2026 the page offered 3 categories and no more: a Deluxe Junior Suite from £3,540, a Terrace Junior Suite from £3,900 and a Mayfair Terrace Suite from £5,400. On the dearest night of the calendar, the cheapest thing on Claridge’s own list was a junior suite.

Prices here move quickly. We had read the same calendar on 28 September 2026, and 13 days later each of the 4 nights we had kept was dearer: 15 October went from £791 to £1,381, 22 October from £1,020 to £1,546, 16 November from £751 to £1,012 and 24 November from £1,254 to £1,932. For the night of 12 October 2026 the second reading also listed who was selling. The calendar’s £1,324 was Super.com’s price; Luxury Escapes showed £1,425, Expedia and Hotels.com £1,520, and the link to Claridge’s itself £1,620 for a Superior Room, the same as Booking.com.

What is added to a figure is one charge, and it is discretionary. Maybourne’s booking terms state that prices are inclusive of sales taxes; among the group’s hotels they name a city tax for Roquebrune-Cap-Martin and surcharges for California, and the terms we read do not mention a city tax for London. 3 offer pages (The Art of Dining, Stay Four Longer and the Christmas stay) add a line the general terms do not have: rates are quoted per room, per night, inclusive of VAT and subject to a 5% discretionary service charge. The sum that follows is ours: if the same 5% is applied to the Superior Room’s from-price for 16 November, £1,122, it is £56.10, and the night comes to £1,178.10 as long as the charge stays on the bill. The booking page did not name the rate behind a from-price, nor show whether it can be cancelled; the terms leave cancellation to room type, rate and travel period.

Guests who put a number on their stay in Google reviews mostly do so when something fell short. One, in June 2026, wrote of paying $1,000 a night for a room that was fairly small, looked onto an interior courtyard and had no coffee or tea in it. Another, in October 2025, counted €1,000 a night for a Claridge’s Room that had no view, asked to change, and ended in a Claridge’s Studio. A third, in December 2025, set the entry at £1,300 a night at least and missed a lobby where residents could wait for their room. 2 reviews posted on the same day in January 2026, which may come from one party, tell of being asked to settle balances of £150 and £200 in the course of 7-night stays; the terms say stays of 7 days or more are settled weekly. And one guest, in March 2026, who had «paid his way in for a night», wrote that Claridge’s has a way of making you feel the most important person in the world.

On each of the 3 nights we opened, Claridge’s own from-price stood above Google’s lowest: by £161 for 21 March 2027, by £110 for 16 November and by £346 for 12 December 2026. Google’s figure is the cheapest of every seller it lists, and for 12 October that seller was Super.com, £296 under the hotel’s own link.

Neither column is a total. A fair comparison sets one room against the same room, with the service charge and the same cancellation terms on both sides.