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Portico Rooms

The Portico Rooms

View from The Portico balcony

Neoclassical architecture, contemporary inspiration

Available for daytime and evening hire

The perfect proportions of the Portico Rooms offer stunning elegance. Natural daylight floods the room on two sides by expansive windows.

The Portico Rooms offer a contemporary yet serene location for entertaining, with uninterrupted views of the river Thames on one side and The Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court on the other. The main room has two accessible balconies from which your guests can take in the spectacular views.

Capacities and further opportunities

Theatre style 100 
Cabaret style 56
Hollow square 48
Reception 200
Reception & lunch/dinner 80
Reception The Portico Rooms & Navy Board Rooms 250
Reception The Portico Rooms, dinner The Seamen's Hall 120
Reception The Portico Rooms, dinner and dancing, The Seamen's Hall 80


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