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Hazlitt’s Hotel
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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One of the great resources of any high class hotel is the concierge desk. Yet it’s consistently under-used by guests, perhaps because many people don’t know how to get the best out of the service. Concierges in London and elsewhere devote time and effort to knowing the city and particularly the area around any given [...]
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The Joan Collins way of travelling – fifteen suitcases and then the hatboxes – seems to be going out of fashion. Low cost airlines are now charging quite extortionate fees for checked luggage and luggage allowances are getting slimmer all the time, so most of us are trying to pack smarter. It’s easy to say [...]
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While some London boutique hotels like the Hempel are totally Zen – cool minimalism, white space, almost austere in design – others are at the opposite end: crammed full of antiques, upholstery and vibrant colour. And what’s in fashion seems to swing from one pole to the other from year to year. Then each of [...]
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Soho is an area I don’t personally know that well. I used to buy old vinyl in Berwick Street and had a client in video post-production whose offices were in Dean Street – but it was never somewhere I hung around all that much. So I took advantage of my lovely stay at Hazlitt’s to [...]
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Hazlitt’s is a fascinating hotel. From the moment you step in the door, it’s as if you have gone back in time. Antique sofas, paintings of distinguished Victorian gentlemen or debauched Regency dandies, cut glass chandeliers and four poster beds – it’s a proper fantasy world. And since many pieces are real antiques you’d find [...]
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London is superb for antiques shopping. As well as street markets – Bermondsey Antiques Market on Fridays and Portobello Road at weekends – there are several other (mainly indoor) markets that do a good trade. One of the best is Alfie’s in Church Street, Marylebone. It occupies a former department store, a striking (though in [...]
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