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Claridge’s
Television viewers were recently treated to an unprecedented look behind the scenes of Claridge’s in the BBC2 documentary series Inside Claridge’s. With the programme pulling in millions of viewers, there is clearly a good deal of fascination with the inside story of one of London’s best Art Deco hotels. And it turns out that the [...]
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Christmas is a time for indulging in life’s little (and not so little) luxuries, and London is a fabulous city in which to enjoy them. From the twinkling Christmas lights of Oxford Street and Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland, to the carolling choirs around Trafalgar Square’s Norwegian Christmas tree, the city is already getting into its [...]
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Christmas is almost upon us once again and there are few places more festive to spend a winter break than London. Aside from the Christmas fairs at Hyde Park, South Bank and elsewhere, there are the extravagant Christmas lights and pantomimes to enjoy, with many of the capital’s top boutique hotels also arranging something extra [...]
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Christmas is around the corner (apparently) and Claridge’s unveiled its Christmas tree last week, much to the delight of guests and visitors alike. The Claridge’s Christmas tree unveiling is always keenly anticipated and this year’s has been designed by florist Kally Ellis (founder of McQueens). Although it looks a tad gloomy in the pic, the [...]
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Budget backpackers, business travellers and luxury seekers are all catered for in the UK capital, with something to suit all tastes, particularly with new London hotels springing up all the time. But average prices are perceived as high due to the consistent year-long demand and visitors often complain about the expense of a typical London hotel [...]
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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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Hotels are more than just a place to eat and sleep between other activities. Today’s guest wants to do a lot more – for instance, to swim or use the gym or perhaps to be entertained or even play games. Guests want to have fun – and hotels are increasingly able to help them do [...]
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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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With the Olympics and Jubilee getting closer the competition between London hotels is really hotting up! Two hotels have even resorted to bringing in the big boys in whites, having recruited two famous chefs to get things steamy in the kitchen, following in the footsteps of Claridge’s. First up was the Sheraton Park Tower who [...]
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It’s Christmas time. Time for singing carols, eating too many mince pies and drinking too much mulled wine. And also time for London hotels to put up Christmas trees. London hotels traditionally vie with each other for the best trees. Claridges has hired Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz to create a tree that really is ‘glitz to the [...]
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London’s hotels have upped their game this year when it comes to their Christmas tree offerings. Whether you like traditional, gaudy, chic or simple, there’s something for every taste. Here I run down my six favourites, in no particular order… 1. Claridge’s Lanvin tree Fashion powerhouse Lanvin’s Creative Director, Alber Elbaz, personally designed the Claridge’s [...]
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The credit crunch is bad news for some but good news for others. The Barclay brothers are among those who have turned others’ distress to their advantage, buying up luxury hotels and becoming the owners of some prime assets in the London market. Their roots in the trade go back to the 1970s when they [...]
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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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The problem with London hotels in the past wasn’t always that the food was unexciting; quite a few hotels had extremely good chefs working for them. No, the problem was that the ambience was unexciting – ancient waiters in dinner jackets, rooms that hadn’t been redecorated since the Duke of Wellington’s day and a rather starchy [...]
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The latest eagerly-anticipated hotel offering from The Dorchester Collection, 45 Park Lane, opened last week. And with room rates starting from £395 we were pleased to see that WiFi is free throughout the hotel. However we were not so pleased to discover that the original Dorchester Hotel in London - a 5 star hotel with similarly lofty [...]
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Andrea’s already debated whether hotel gyms are a waste of space, and cited research which implied that three quarters of travellers are swayed on where to stay by a hotel’s gym facilities. If, like me, you count yourself among them, it’s handy to know not only that your hotel has a gym but also what that gym [...]
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