A forecourt winter market, a Cali-Mexican Christmas Day and a rooftop New Year’s Eve with front-row fireworks: Marylebone’s most playful hotel is going all in on the festive season.

If your idea of Christmas leans more mezcal than mulled sherry, Treehouse Hotel London has you covered. The Langham Place hotel has unveiled its festive programme for 2026, running from late November into the first hours of 2027, and it’s a far cry from the usual turkey-and-tinsel routine.

For the first time, the hotel’s forecourt is being turned into a winter market, mixing in-house stalls with a tight edit of independent London makers. Rooftop bar The Nest will be pouring seasonal cocktails, 14th-floor restaurant Madera brings its Cali-Mexican cooking down to street level, and cult cookie spot Blondies Kitchen — of Selfridges and Covent Garden fame — is baking festive batches on site.

Elsewhere, Filipino coffee brand Tita’s Coffee shares a stall with cent.ldn, whose collectible statement candles are hand-poured by wax artisans here in the capital. Gift shopping, sorted.

The location does a lot of the heavy lifting. Treehouse sits right beside All Souls Church, home to one of London’s best-loved carol services and a magnet for more than 25,000 visitors across the season. The carols need no booking, so a sing-song followed by a hot drink at the market is about as low-effort as festive plans get.

The events calendar is stacked with hands-on sessions, most of them up at Madera:

• 28 November, 10am–12pm — upcycling designer Lydia Bolton leads a charm-making workshop using reclaimed fabrics, beads and ribbons, with the results ready to hang on a bag, keys or the tree.
• 1 December, 7–9pm — The Glitter Store’s Lillie shows guests how to turn their own printed photos into one-off glittered gifts, with mulled wine and nibbles on hand.
• 6 December — the Christmas edition of the Sharky + George Family Fiesta Brunch. Parents get Madera’s brunch menu and cocktails; kids aged 4–10 get 90 minutes of parachute games, tug of war, bubbles and dancing.
• 6 December — over at The Nest, Paws & Portraits sees illustrator Bee Davies paint live, made-to-order dog portraits onto baubles. Niche? Yes. Brilliant? Also yes.

Madera opens on 25 December, serving its full à la carte menu in place of a traditional roast — with the skyline thrown in. Expect the signature sirloin with piquillo peppers, wild mushrooms and Mexican chillies, a wild mushroom fajita bowl with charro beans, and chicken mixiote enchiladas in salsa verde. Leave room for the churros with dulce de leche or the Oaxacan chocolate cake.

On 31 December, Madera serves a three-course set menu at £175 per person: chicken tinga tostaditas to start, a caviar-topped Wagyu On The Rock for main, and a wintry Black Forest dessert with raspberry and cranberry sorbet.

One floor up, The Nest is the party. DJs and cocktails build towards midnight, when the outdoor terrace becomes one of the best vantage points in town for London’s fireworks — and things keep going well into the early hours. Tickets are due to go on sale shortly.

For anyone who’d rather not face the Night Tube, the hotel’s rooms and suites sit within walking distance of Regent Street, Oxford Street and Soho. Two seasonal packages are on offer: Holly & Jolly, which dresses your room up with festive decorations, and Twixmas, built for that strange limbo between Christmas and New Year, with two half bottles of Silverhand English sparkling wine waiting on arrival.

Opened in 2019 by Barry Sternlicht — the man behind 1 Hotels — Treehouse has always sold itself on a sense of childlike fun. This Christmas, it looks set to deliver.

Bookings for Treehouse Hotel London’s festive season are open now at treehousehotels.com/london/festive-season.