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Today we’ve invited Jules Pearson, founder of London On The Inside, to share her favourite London hotel with us. My favourite London hotel has to be the Hoxton hotel in East London, because it gets everything spot on and proves you can still be a design-led and fashionable hotel without charging the earth. The hotel [...]
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Despite the continuing chill in the air, spring is definitely on its way to London and we can’t wait to see the daffodils put out their blooms. It’s a time for new beginnings and this season will see refurbishments, special offers and brand new premises joining the boutique hotel scene. Set to open in May, [...]
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Cycling is all the rage in London these days and the streets of East London are full of uber trendy riders. The Hoxton Hotel, which is quite possibly the coolest hotel in East and known for its generosity when it comes to add ons – they’ve never charged for WiFi, always given a free breakfast bag and even [...]
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The cold January weather may have been dominating the news over the past month, but there’s plenty going on in London’s boutique hotel scene to warm the cockles. Here we take a look at some of the big stories in January and look ahead to what’s happening in February. Some of the capital’s most popular [...]
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Christmas is almost upon us once again and there are few places more festive to spend a winter break than London. Aside from the Christmas fairs at Hyde Park, South Bank and elsewhere, there are the extravagant Christmas lights and pantomimes to enjoy, with many of the capital’s top boutique hotels also arranging something extra [...]
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We all know that a good concierge is a mine of information on the local area – what’s on, what’s hot and what’s not. But concierges aren’t naturally scalable; they’re human, and one concierge doesn’t go far when guests are being demanding, however good he may be. In view of this and the opportunities presented by [...]
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After the Olympics and all the new openings, the more established hotels need to do something to make sure they get their share of the limelight. The latest hotel to give guests a reason to talk about it – apart from its free WiFi and attractive room rates – is the trendy Hoxton Hotel in [...]
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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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