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Last week, the Red Carnation Hotels’ UK teams raised over £10,000 for charity with sponsored running, cycling and abseiling amongst the charitable activities. The main focus was to raise money for the fifth annual Hospitality Action Week (13 – 19 May 2013) which has run for over 170 years, supporting vulnerable people working in the [...]
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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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Stranded in Mayfair? If you find yourself in this less than distressing predicament, you may wish to do what we did recently and pop in to the Terrace Bar at the Chesterfield Mayfair for some sophisticated bar food. We’re not talking here about dodgy pork scratchings or a ham sandwich. It’s proper food designed for sharing [...]
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In the ‘Sunday Times Top 100 Companies to Work For’, Red Carnation has jumped from 71st to 26th. The group is already renowned for hiring and retaining great staff and is the highest-ranking hotel group within the list. After making its debut on the prestigious Sunday Times list just last year, the Red Carnation Hotel Collection is [...]
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Red Carnation Hotels (which have currently sewn up the top 3 London spots on TripAdvisor) are now offering you an opportunity to indulge in uncompromising luxury without paying a penny. There is a 3 night stay for two in a suite at any of the boutique collection’s 14 luxury hotels up for grabs, accompanied by [...]
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With London’s January sale season now in full swing, Red Carnation Hotels have arranged their very own January sales with some special deals for shopping addicts in search of a touch of luxury as well as bargains. Each of the group’s six London properties is centrally located and an easy hop from all of the city’s major [...]
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This is the moment that the Christmas lights were turned on at Kensington’s Milestone Hotel with a bit of help from three ballerinas from the English National Ballet dressed in costumes from the Nutcracker. Appropriately enough, the hotel is also offering an ultra-deluxe Christmas package called Nutcracker Christmas Extravangaza. Book direct with the Montague Hotel at the best guaranteed [...]
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The festive season is definitely in full swing for London hotels. Christmas trees are going up and stunning gingerbread houses are appearing everywhere! Both The Langham and Chesterfield Mayfair have returning gingerbread houses that are always meticulously crafted. Take a look below at our top 5 London hotel gingerbread houses. Why not let us know in [...]
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When it comes to creating a truly memorable luxury hotel experience, it takes more than just good design, exquisitely comfy beds and sumptuous dining to win over today’s demanding traveller. The true heart of any luxury hotel is its staff and the service they give to guests. And since they recently won the award [...]
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Mrs Beatrice Tollman, the founder of Red Carnation Hotels, has won the hotelier of the year award at the European Hospitality Awards 2012. The judges stated: “Beatrice Tollman has never lost sight of the guiding principle of hospitality – service. After five decades in the industry, her ongoing involvement on the front line of her [...]
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The days are getting shorter, Christmas is getting closer and there’s a slight chill in the air; it’s around this time of year that London’s boutique hotels start pulling out all the stops to do something special for guests. One such hotel is the Montague on the Gardens in Bloomsbury, which held the launch party for [...]
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US TV channel Fox has commissioned a second series of Hotel Hell, the reality TV show in which chef Gordon Ramsay takes on under-performing hotels. It’s fascinating viewing, particularly for a hotel blogger – but are there any lessons for London hotels? There’s quirky – and then there’s unsaleable. I’m a great lover of London’s [...]
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With the nights fast drawing in and London’s busy summer beginning to fade into memory, you might be forgiven for thinking that things are quietening down. But as our news roundup from the UK capital’s boutique hotel sector shows, that’s simply not the case… One Aldwych in Covent Garden launched its brand new guests-only lounge [...]
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Here at London Hotels Insight, we have an ever growing collection of photographs of hotels that we’re adding all the time to our Flickr account, all of which we’ve personally visited. From beautiful afternoon teas to sleek interior design, our London hotel Flickr account covers a wide range of wonderful features across 16 hotels – and it’s [...]
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Note: the article below was published in 2012. We’ve since posted an up-to-date rundown of the top 10 best-value London hotel afternoon teas in 2013 with lovely photos. Last year we presented our top 5 best-value London hotel afternoon teas which still receives huge traffic every day and is our most read blog post. This year, to mark [...]
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Since my blog colleague Holly recently published a scathing and funny critique of the ‘women only’ service at Duke’s, I wanted to offer hoteliers some further thoughts on how they might cater to women’s needs from a professional working female perspective. Admittedly, business-oriented hotels have traditionally been very masculine places. Even the decor often showed that such hotels were designed primarily for men – sporting prints and [...]
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