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For our very first ‘Hotel of the Month‘, we chose The Cavendish London to share its many attractions. Now you can win a free weekend there just by RT’ing @londonhoteltips on Twitter. Read on to learn how you can win! The 4 star Cavendish London has won awards for its staff wellbeing as one of the Sunday Times [...]
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As part of the investigation of this blog’s hotel of the month for May, I went for dinner at Petrichor in The Cavendish London on Jermyn Street. This hotel has been featured before for its great-value afternoon tea and my colleague Andrea also did a cocktail masterclass in its bar. So we knew already that they’re pretty [...]
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Here at LHI, we’ve decided to show some extra TLC to those hotels which we think are doing it right. Our first Hotel of the Month is… drumroll please….The Cavendish London! The Cavendish London is a 4 star hotel which has won awards for its staff wellbeing and is a Sunday Times Top 100 Small Company [...]
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It’s that time of year when the annual Tea Guild Awards come round again and we’ve done our usual added-value research from their findings to help you track down the best – and best-value – London hotel afternoon teas. Dubbed by some as the Oscars of the afternoon tea world, these awards have been rewarding [...]
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Vine is the latest app to be sweeping across the social media scene. It’s slightly different to Pinterest or Instagram which allow you to upload, like and share pictures. Vine also allows you to make and share a 6 second looping video. Although Vine is only currently available for Apple users there is apparently an [...]
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I arrived at The Cavendish for my afternoon tea in full-on panic mode. There had been an accident on the trains and I was almost an hour late (I hate being late despite having called ahead to let the hotel know). However, the moment I entered The Cavendish, my unease fell away as I slipped effortlessly [...]
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What is it with dim? I just never seem to be able to get a hotel room that’s light enough. You might have thought the loft living tendency of the last twenty years, minimalism and Scandinavian influences had led us all to ‘chuck out the chintz’ (as a certain Scandinavian furnishing chain has it) and [...]
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Hotel lobbies seem to be on the way out – at least, the huge ones of the past (as exemplified by the Hilton Metropole London pictured above) seem to have shrunk. Maybe no one finds them useful any more. After all, what do you actually use the lobby for? There’s a business centre for connecting to the internet, [...]
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London Hotels Insight’s free WiFi touchdown visits are now complete, but we’ll continue to pressurise London hotels that charge extra for WiFi without stating this information clearly upfront before travellers book. During our campaign, we personally visited 14 different free WiFi London hotels and promoted them aggressively on social media. We took hundreds of photos which are being uploaded onto the [...]
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Once upon a time, travellers wanted to feel at home wherever they went. English tourists wanted fish and chips whether they were in Barcelona or Bodrum, Tenerife or Thailand and chain hotels offered total consistency whichever continent you were on, with the same colour carpet, the same ‘international’ menu and pretty much the same room, [...]
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Thirty odd years ago, a hotel’s business centre was essential to business travellers: without it, you simply couldn’t communicate. You needed the fax back then for a start and later when the internet arrived you needed a networked computer to connect to it (and wouldn’t imagine getting one in your room). In fact, you relied on [...]
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I’m not a particularly good trend-spotter. I tend to remain faithful to a number of favourite restaurants or else I like to explore the far out territories of Gujarati, African, or Lebanese food or any other cuisine I haven’t tried yet. But I do occasionally notice what’s going on around me, so I was interested [...]
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Will it affect our campaign for free WiFi that the Maybourne Hotel Group will soon be taken over by the Barclay Brothers – owners of The Ritz which currently shamefully charges the highest prices in London for WiFi? Our fingers are crossed that Claridge’s, The Connaught and The Berkeley will continue to offer free WiFi – even under the Barclays’ ownership. We’ve [...]
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If you are heading to London this September you’re in for quite a treat! The 4 star Cavendish Hotel has created a new cocktail called the Red Rosa to mark the Art of Being British – a one-day street party celebrating all things British. The party takes place from noon until 5pm on 10th September along Jermyn [...]
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I fondly remember the FT’s ‘lunch for a fiver’ offer, which I sometimes made use of when I worked in the City. You cut out the coupon, you went to your preferred hostelry and you paid £5 for lunch. Except, of course, that usually you didn’t. You’d pay £15 after a glass of Perrier, a [...]
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I do love my breakfast, though I don’t get to eat the ‘Full English’ very often – partly since I like my waist measurement to come in well under 30 inches. So I jumped at the chance to savour the “Best of British” breakfast at the Cavendish. The hotel is proud of its effort to [...]
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