London's Christmas Highlights

Start at Bond Street

Bond Street Underground is central to the highlights and convenient for the Central, Jubilee and Elizabeth lines. The decorations at this end of Oxford Street are sparse, so head straight up the road to Selfridges where the proper festive theatre begins.

Selfridges & Oxford Street

In 2025 Selfridges has gone full-Disney. The flagship is clad in a bespoke façade with a three-dimensional Disney Castle and a light-and-music show every 15 minutes between 5pm and 9pm. Twelve windows reimagine Cinderella, Peter Pan, Pinocchio and Mary Poppins.

Selfridges has gone full-Disney — twelve windows reimagining Cinderella, Peter Pan, Pinocchio and Mary Poppins.

Mayfair

The streets of Mayfair are heavily decorated with canopy-style lights and shopfronts dressed up with wreaths and garlands. Mercato Mayfair (a deconsecrated church turned food hall) is worth the queue for the vaulted crypt and roof terrace. Then walk past the Chancery Rosewood, the Biltmore and the Connaught — the latter's Christmas tree is festooned with baubles bearing real human faces.

Annabel's & New Bond Street

Annabel's on Berkeley Square has gone Narnia for 2025: 'The Wardrobe — A World of Wonder' fronts the Grade-I-listed Georgian entrance. New Bond Street's display draws on the crown jewels — think crowns, pearls and tiaras strung from roughly 93,000 LEDs, with Chanel, Dior, Cartier and Ralph Lauren competing window by window.

Burlington Arcade to Piccadilly

Burlington Arcade is its own little dome of light. Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly takes Christmas more seriously than the rest of the country combined. Piccadilly Circus, Regent Street's angels and Hamleys all sit on the route back.

Carnaby, Liberty & home

Carnaby Street's theme rotates yearly and is always worth the detour. Liberty's facade-meets-Christmas-tree on Great Marlborough Street is one of London's quiet greats. From there it is a short walk through Oxford Circus and John Lewis back to Bond Street, where the loop closes.