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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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It seems like somebody has answered our prayers – following years of campaigning for all hotels to have free WiFi, a new hotel group announces its arrival in the city not just with free WiFi but also designer rooms at attractive room rates apparently starting from just £75 a night. Z Hotels already have three hotels [...]
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Nightjar, Old Street You wouldn’t know Nightjar existed unless you know it – in fact I lived a two minute walk from it for months before learning of its existence. The bar’s unassuming exterior – it doesn’t even have a sign – conceals a far more exciting interior. It plays host to a programme of [...]
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Hotel room rates have always been something of a movable feast. “Rack rate” has never been exactly what everybody paid and most hotels have a yield management program that prices to get the best profit from the hotel – balancing occupancy rates and price to make the optimum return. That makes it hard to know what the [...]
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If you like designer things but don’t have the money to match, the Hoxton Hotel in East London may be the place for you. The hotel – in the uber-cool Shoreditch area – last year gave three designers the task of creating a new room each. Project Orange, Suzy Hoodless and Adrian Kilby were each [...]
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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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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 [...]
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Think of top London hotels and I bet you’re thinking of the West End – Mayfair, Chelsea or Westminster. But a new generation of hotels is now springing up in unlikely places like Bethnal Green, Lambeth and Battersea. And while London is not a particularly dangerous city – it seems these new hotels are showing [...]
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London hotels have contrasting views on this particular topic. Flagship hotel restaurants are often seen as a selling point. This especially applies to luxury hotels, with Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester and Gordon Ramsay at Art Deco gem Claridge’s notable examples, along with Galvin at Windows (Hilton on Park Lane) and Apsley’s at the Lanesborough. [...]
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Clerkenwell isn’t a particularly well-defined part of London. There’s no ‘Clerkenwell station’ and it’s not entirely clear where it shades into Farringdon, Hatton Garden or Islington. No wonder so many miss it. It’s divided by a main road that goes right past all the most interesting places – so you end up crossing and recrossing [...]
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There are many different hotels in London and no individual one is perfect for everyone. But we all love “something for nothing” and the feeling that we’ve got ourselves some valuable extras without paying for them. Here then is our guide to some of the best “freebies” in London hotels. All the hotels mentioned below [...]
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People often complain about the expense of staying in London’s hotels. While there are certainly some great cheap options available – both at the pure budget and “luxury budget” ends of the market, how can you make absolutely sure you’ve nabbed the best deal? Recent reports suggest that London hotel rates are starting to pick [...]
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Stoke Newington is one of London’s many “villages”: a community with its own character, swallowed up in a sea of Victorian terraces. Let London Hotels Insight guide you on a tour of this fascinating, underrated area. “Stokey” has two axes, each with its own distinctive buzz; Church Street, with its yummy-mummy cafes and boutiques, and [...]
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We’ve commented on the rise of London’s “luxury budget” hotels, with the likes of the Hoxton Hotel and Base2stay Kensington leading the way. There are also the impressive London airport hotels created by YOTEL, adapted from the Japanese “capsule” idea, which show that “cheap” can also be fun, look good and provide free WiFi. In [...]
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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without pantomimes and London hosts some of the best around. “Pantos” are plays based on popular fairytales retold in an eccentric way (this is England after all!). They also have certain characteristics: the handsome hero, a pantomime dame (played by a man in drag), the panto horse (one actor as the [...]
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Several bloggers engaged on the “Free the WiFi” campaign have mentioned an odd thing: how can some of the cheapest hotels and hostels provide free internet access while many of the most famous brands cannot? Here we put the spotlight on London’s budget hotels to identify more “good guy hotels” with free WiFi. We hope [...]
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