London Hotels Insight provides up-to-date, independent advice for your perfect stay in London. We research guest feedback, meet management and identify hotels at the top of their game.
Posts tagged as:
Egerton House Hotel
It’s been a packed year of developments, openings and promotions for London boutique hotels in 2011 and December was no exception. With the New Year almost upon us, we take a look at some of the most newsworthy items to emerge in the past month, as well as some exciting prospects for 2012 and beyond. [...]
{ 0 comments }
As we move closer to Christmas and the start of London’s big Olympics year, there are many new developments in the UK capital’s boutique sector – things to look forward to and offers to check out. We summarise what’s hot in the London boutique hotel scene below in our monthly round-up. The five-star Egerton House [...]
{ 0 comments }
The luxurious Egerton House Hotel is already probably London’s cosiest 5 star boutique hotel with its 28 individually-styled rooms and wonderfully hospitable little bar famous for serving some of the best martinis in London. It now has a further treat in store for guests this winter with the addition of a complimentary refreshment table in [...]
{ 1 comment }
I have a theory about good bars in London. There is an inevitable lifecycle: they begin initially as slightly underground bars, drawing in those in the know with something quirky, technically good or unexpected. The word then spreads and they will usually maintain their excellent form for a while – the crowds increase but not to [...]
{ 1 comment }
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 [...]
{ 2 comments }
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 [...]
{ 1 comment }
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 [...]
{ 1 comment }
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 [...]
{ 5 comments }
The word “luxury” is bandied about so freely these days that it has lost much of its value. Nowhere is this more true than with hotels. Tired of the hype? This post takes a guest-centric view on luxury using TripAdvisor. In a previous article we criticised the use of misleading star ratings. Today we take [...]
{ 5 comments }
In the 1970s there was no such thing as a ’boutique hotel’. In fact there was hardly any such thing as ‘hotel design’ – most hotels were highly conservative. This was still the era of place mats with stagecoach and hunting scenes on them and menus with upholstered red plastic covers. Then Anouska Hempel brought [...]
{ 4 comments }
Checklist-based star rating systems were historically the natural way to rank and classify hotels. When the Savoy opened in London in 1889 it was seen as the ultimate luxury hotel: features like electric lifts and individual bathrooms were a genuine novelty and the epitome of indulgence. As competitors in the next century caught up or [...]
{ 9 comments }
If you want art in London, you might head to Tate Britain, the National Gallery or Sotheby’s for example. Or for something more cutting edge, you could be tempted to check out the Saatchi Gallery or Tate Modern. But you might also find your hotel to be an equally good place to find contemporary art [...]
{ 7 comments }
I always thought you needed to shake a cocktail. And James Bond, of course, likes his Martini ‘shaken, not stirred’. But according to Warryn who mixes cocktails at the stylish Cavendish (and recently revealed hotel bartenders’ favourite London bars), that’s the last thing you should do. “Not shaking,” he says, “swirling. You want to get [...]
{ 0 comments }
There’s good service and then there’s great service. I’ve been doing a bit of thinking about the difference between the two. Great service doesn’t have to require a huge effort. A concierge arranging to pick your car up – when you left it in Frankfurt and need it in London – is great service; but [...]
{ 6 comments }
I’ve often heard that if you want to pick a good Chinese restaurant, pick one with plenty of Chinese customers. On that basis, I reckon, if you want to know a good cocktail bar, you should ask a bartender. Since I was already being taught how to make a decent cocktail by Warryn at the [...]
{ 1 comment }
I recently visited Hotel 41 where I met the General Manager of this luxury boutique hotel in Victoria – Malcolm Hendry – as well as the MD of Red Carnation Hotels (and Hotelier of the Year 2009) Jonathan Raggett. I wanted to learn how Hotel 41 had achieved the position of being rated the best [...]
{ 16 comments }
