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2011 was an exciting year for London’s boutique hotels and 2012 is shaping up to be no different. With the Olympics and the Queen’s Jubilee taking place over the summer, hotels will be falling over themselves to pull in visitors with innovative special offers in the quest for a bumper year. And if January is [...]
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Covent Garden – a hub of activity with its plethora of theatres, wide array of restaurants, bustling bars and world-class shopping – is an easy choice when picking an area of London for your next stay. And besides all the entertainment, it also offers rich pickings in terms of luxury accommodation; here are my four [...]
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The refurbished Radisson Edwardian Mercer Street (previously called Radisson Edwardian Mountbatten) has undergone a massive facelift and recent guests have been raving about it. A very satisfied guest of the hotel, Tripadvisor 42Sara said: “Excellent hotel, in a fantastic location with superb staff… We will definitely be returning to this hotel and I cannot recommend [...]
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The Mercer Street Hotel (formerly The Mountbatten Hotel) re-opened just over a week ago following a £15 million pound refurbishment. The 4 star boutique Covent Garden hotel is part of the Radisson Edwardian group. Its prime location makes it a fabulous base for exploring all the tourist sights as well as some of London’s best secret bars. Inside the decor is chic and modern [...]
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Boutique hotels offer a unique way to experience London and fortunately the UK’s capital has many top-notch ones to choose from, with new ones emerging all the time. For the very latest on the city’s dynamic boutique hotel scene, read on for our September news round-up… According to a report published this month by hotel consultants [...]
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For anyone seeking to excel in a career in the hotel industry, London has always been the place to be; the golden ticket so to speak. And in the run-up to the 2012 Olympic Games and beyond, those with a passion to succeed and the ambition to take on some of the capital’s best hotel [...]
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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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For two weeks in summer 2012, London’s hotels will become the most desirable real estate in the world. Thousands will flock to enjoy the world-renowned spectacle that is these quadrennial games, happening in the UK capital for the first time since 1948. You can’t be sluggish in booking a hotel for the London Olympics, as [...]
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Welcome to the latest London Hotels Insight round-up from the thriving London boutique hotels scene. The city is home to some of the world’s best boutique hotels and this summary reviews the most recent news. London is set to gain a new boutique hotel as planning permission has now been given for a property in [...]
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London has a great deal to offer in surprising and delighting diehard fans of the silver screen. For one thing, it is a fabulous film set as our recent review of the best movies which use London as a backdrop highlighted. But as well as numerous film-related events in the capital, several London hotels even [...]
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Passport to Pimlico. Notting Hill. The Lavender Hill Mob. 84 Charing Cross Road. 10 Rillington Place. London’s geography resounds in the titles of films – and in many of them, you might say, the city itself is the hero. London is one of the world’s great film sets. It’s naturally at the centre of many [...]
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Kit Kemp – the design genius behind boutique hotel chain Firmdale Hotels – recently carried out a comprehensive redesign of the flagship Loft Suite at the company’s highly-rated Covent Garden Hotel. The suite is a duplex penthouse imbued with a fresh new look based on an open-plan layout. The mezzanine-style space has a well-proportioned dining [...]
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Firmdale Hotels has done well to sew up some of the top spots on TripAdvisor for its six London hotels. This has been achieved with a smart blend of good taste in design and attentive yet unintrusive service. Their stylish Soho Hotel for example is a celebrity magnet and consistently in the top 5 London [...]
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A colourful cuisine craze is sweeping London at the moment and its arrival is long overdue. Anyone who has been to Mexico knows the local food is a delicious riot of tacos, tortillas, spicy salsas and chocolatey mole sauces. Sadly for us Europeans, so-called Mexican food here too often consists of limp tortilla chips drowned [...]
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Having covered off Mayfair, Islington and the South Bank in our mini-tour of some of London’s most interesting districts, we now head for Covent Garden, a much-loved haunt for locals and tourists alike. As a Londoner, Covent Garden evokes a certain affection and pride that nearby Leicester Square and other hubs can’t really match. Dominated [...]
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Once upon a time brunch was the realm of businessmen and the Sex and the City girls but nowadays it is the “hot” weekend meal. And London Hotels Insight has a run-down for you of the best London spots to catch a leisurely brunch, with fabulous nearby hotels to stay in. So resist pulling the [...]
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