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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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Thirty odd years ago, a hotel’s business centre was essential to business travellers: without it, you simply couldn’t communicate. You needed the fax back then for a start and later when the internet arrived you needed a networked computer to connect to it (and wouldn’t imagine getting one in your room). In fact, you relied on [...]
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Across the road from the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace is Hotel 41 - a free WiFi 5 star boutique London hotel which has been at or near the top of the Tripadvisor charts for quite a while thanks to its flawless service and stylish retro design. We recently visited to test its promise of free WiFi. Hotel 41, just like the Rubens [...]
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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 [...]
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Hotel 41 has won fistfuls of awards and accolades, from Travellers Choice 2011 to Conde Nast Traveler’s ‘One of The Best Places in The World to Stay’. The ultra-discreet 5 star boutique London hotel - one of the few hotels in London closed to the public which whisks you up by private lift - is also now carving out a niche as one of London’s [...]
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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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Ever tried playing tennis on your own? Fancied a kickabout but had no team mates? Or simply prefer working out with a friend? If that’s you (it’s certainly me!) then you’ll be pleased to hear about the new sports buddy-up scheme at two of London’s best boutique luxury hotels, Rubens at the Palace and 41 [...]
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If our post on London’s four most expensive hotel rooms whetted your appetite for the high life, you’ll be pleased to know that you can live the lifestyle without bearing those eye-watering prices. Whilst these suites certainly aren’t cheap, they do offer super value given the “wow” factor they offer, proving you can splash out without [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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“Clubland” isn’t just a place: it is also a time and a state of mind. The Club was where Bertie Wooster could disappear to, away from the demands of his family and ever-decreasing circles of PG Wodehouse’s plots. The Club was where Regency gentlemen once bet on which drop of rain would reach the bottom [...]
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We’ve been banging on about the importance of WiFi for quite a while now – and it’s pleasing to see that nowadays almost all the top-rated London hotels on TripAdvisor provide free WiFi as a matter of routine. There is now added statistical evidence in favour of this essential hotel amenity (which, as we argued [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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I’ve had some truly horrible meals in hotels. After all, hoteliers know they’ve got a captive market – people who are too tired, lazy or jet-lagged to want to head out to a restaurant; so the quality of the food may often be compromised even in otherwise decent hotels. Bland ‘international’ cuisine that’s low on [...]
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