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With the new Guy Ritchie movie “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” recently having been released, it’s time to look at some related London hotel deals and murder mystery games that you can participate in. The Langham Hotel - commemorated in several Sherlock Holmes stories including “A Scandal in Bohemia” - offers guests the opportunity to retrace the [...]
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The Langham’s festive gingerbread house is well known and was last year crowned the biggest one in London. This year it also looks huge; standing at 4.3ft high the gingerbread house will be on display at the entrance to the beautiful Palm Court restaurant – no nibbling though as the house will be on display throughout [...]
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The latest eagerly-anticipated hotel offering from The Dorchester Collection, 45 Park Lane, opened last week. And with room rates starting from £395 we were pleased to see that WiFi is free throughout the hotel. However we were not so pleased to discover that the original Dorchester Hotel in London - a 5 star hotel with similarly lofty [...]
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The five-star Landmark London hotel has recently completed the refurbishment of 51 suites. The hotel located in Marylebone is favoured by A list celebrities and last week also apparently hosted the Manchester United end-of-season bash. To celebrate the completion of the suites the hotel is offering a pretty sweet deal: any guest who books a [...]
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This blog recently looked at London hotel afternoon teas to explore whether they are an overpriced indulgence or a value-for-money treat. We also listed the top 17 hotel afternoon teas in the capital based on the in-depth anonymous inspections carried out by the UK Tea Guild. Today we delve deeper and compare this top 17 [...]
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Afternoon tea is a quintessentially English tradition and it’s no surprise that London hotels do a roaring trade in it. As of late however, its popularity has soared and according to the London Evening Standard, some hotels are now putting on six sittings of afternoon tea every day to keep up! But what is the [...]
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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 Langham is one of an elite group of London hotels with a deep sense of history as our old black and white photos of the hotel illustrate. And it’s also famous for serving a historic afternoon tea – which is still winning awards for best London afternoon tea even today. Here we recap “20 [...]
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Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and there are many ways of showing that special someone how much you care without resorting to time-honoured clichés or massive expense. And nothing says ‘I love you’ like a well-planned day out or weekend break in London. If you want to impress but you’re coming up short on ideas, [...]
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I’m a runner. I like nothing better than hitting Hyde Park for a quick 5k (well – let me admit, a fairly sedate 5k to be honest!). But on a miserable day when it’s pelting with rain – or at night – that’s not really an option. Which leaves the hotel gym. For me, that’s [...]
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London Hotels Insight recently went to check out the award-winning afternoon tea at the Langham. This is after all the tea voted number one in 2010 by the Tea Guild (the previous London hotel winner was Brown’s in Mayfair – possibly London’s oldest hotel). The Langham is also a hotel with a distinguished past – [...]
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I’m a big fan of afternoon tea but it could be said the traditional format is a little tired and could do with some waking up. So I was intrigued by The Arch’s rather different take on tea-time – Earl Grey cocktails and filled eclairs – and on a recent visit I made sure that [...]
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Paris may be the city of light but London has a very pronounced dark side. From Jack the Ripper to Sweeney Todd, the city has some macabre tales and equally gruesome sights. Let us guide you through the best of them… I’m going to leave the ‘Ripper industry’ to one side because all you can [...]
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Purely in the name of research of course, London Hotels Insight has been secretly checking out some of the UK capital’s very best hotel bars. We reviewed all bars anonymously and paid our own way. Visits were recent so opinions are up-to-date though you may not always agree with them. Any list of this kind [...]
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The best London hotels have a sense of history which gives them a certain presence and charisma from the first moment you step inside. We have a soft spot for such hotels having already featured the histories of the Savoy, the Milestone Hotel, Brown’s, the Goring and the Langham among others, as well as giving [...]
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We’ll get to the hotel connection later…but London visitors may initially be a bit curious about our fascination with the London Mayor. He’s been in the news recently due to the introduction of the new London bike scheme. I nearly got mowed down by a ‘Boris bike’ the other day – one of the new [...]
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