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The Red Carnation Hotel Collection which owns some of this blog’s favourite luxury London boutique hotels including Rubens at the Palace and Montague on the Gardens have gone all soppy on us! Valentine’s Day is around the corner and we’ve already seen other hotels creating all kinds of extravagant packages to mark the occasion. Red Carnation [...]
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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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The Milestone - the 5 star Kensington boutique hotel known for its “tiny noticeable touches“- is offering a special package to couples this Valentine’s Day - a massage master class with world-famous therapist Fiona Keane. What could be more romantic than a gift you could give each other over a lifetime? In the complete Valentine’s massage master class [...]
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It’s been a packed year of developments, openings and promotions for London boutique hotels in 2011 and December was no exception. With the New Year almost upon us, we take a look at some of the most newsworthy items to emerge in the past month, as well as some exciting prospects for 2012 and beyond. [...]
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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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On the second day of our free WiFi touchdown campaign, we have today been visiting The Milestone - a gorgeous luxury London boutique hotel with a welcoming atmosphere right opposite Kensington Gardens. We launched free WiFi touchdown to promote hotels that offer this basic amenity to guests in contrast to others (often in the luxury sector) which charge lofty fees that are often not even disclosed [...]
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Will it affect our campaign for free WiFi that the Maybourne Hotel Group will soon be taken over by the Barclay Brothers – owners of The Ritz which currently shamefully charges the highest prices in London for WiFi? Our fingers are crossed that Claridge’s, The Connaught and The Berkeley will continue to offer free WiFi – even under the Barclays’ ownership. We’ve [...]
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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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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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London has world-class boutique hotels, offering the perfect antidote to high-rise sterility and big-brand anonymity. To help you keep up with the ever-changing scene, we proudly present our monthly round-up of all the latest news from the very best London boutique hotels. The family-owned Goring Hotel is certainly no stranger to famous guests, so staff were no doubt [...]
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This year marks the 80th anniversary of The Dorchester Hotel on swanky Park Lane. And its Grill restaurant, which has played host to countless celebrities and dignitaries over its eighty years, will celebrate the momentous date in the best way I know – with lashings of booze! As a special treat to mark its 80th [...]
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Andrea’s already debated whether hotel gyms are a waste of space, and cited research which implied that three quarters of travellers are swayed on where to stay by a hotel’s gym facilities. If, like me, you count yourself among them, it’s handy to know not only that your hotel has a gym but also what that gym [...]
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Welcome to the latest London Hotels Insight round-up from the thriving London boutique hotels scene. The city is home to some of the world’s best boutique hotels and this summary reviews the most recent news. London is set to gain a new boutique hotel as planning permission has now been given for a property in [...]
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London’s luxury family-owned Milestone Hotel in the exclusive Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has topped a list of Europe’s best small hotels, with two other London hotels also featuring in the top 10. Travel + Leisure‘s World’s Best Awards, voted by their readers, provide an essential list to help you navigate the globe like [...]
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There’s nothing worse than been kept awake by your partner’s snoring, especially when you’re staying away from home. Which is why the Crowne Plaza London City are putting the world’s first “snore absorption” room on trial. It includes soundproofing and a specially-designed pillow to help guests sleep. No more piling pillows on top of your [...]
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I’ve never been clear about exactly what a sommelier does. It seems a rather mixed job – front-of-house glad-handing mixed with lots of behind-the-scenes work. So I naturally jumped at the chance to have lunch with Lia Poveda, Head Sommelier at the 5 star Milestone Hotel in Kensington. The most visible part of her job [...]
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