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Last year we presented our top 5 best-value London hotel afternoon teas which still receives huge traffic every day and is our most read blog post. This year, to mark the recent release of The UK Tea Guild’s Top London Afternoon Tea Award and Awards of Excellence 2012, we’re upping the ante with our choice of the ultimate [...]
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With the summer drawing near, not to mention the Olympic Games and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, these are exciting times for London boutique hotels and April certainly saw plenty of new developments. With less than ninety days to go until all eyes turn to London for the Olympics, some hotels are still frantically putting the [...]
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As you already know, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and Olympics both take place this summer right here in London and following on from the Milestone Hotel’s extraordinary ‘Hidden Gems’ deal, the Montague on the Gardens has created two special packages to celebrate these joyous occasions. The ‘Best of British On a Plate Package’ and ‘Best of British Maiden Voyage [...]
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It maybe nearly two months away but London hotels are rolling out their Diamond Jubilee packages thick and fast. If you are still to make plans for this joyous occasion you might want to check out the Milestone Hotel’s ‘Hidden Gems’ package for the chance to own your own crown jewels! The boutique five-star hotel [...]
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With winter rapidly becoming a distant memory and spring well and truly in the air for London’s big Olympic year, now is a great time to enjoy a stay at one of the UK capital’s world-class boutique hotels. March saw a number of interesting developments in the boutique hotel scene and April is looking set fair to [...]
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Since my blog colleague Holly recently published a scathing and funny critique of the ‘women only’ service at Duke’s, I wanted to offer hoteliers some further thoughts on how they might cater to women’s needs from a professional working female perspective. Admittedly, business-oriented hotels have traditionally been very masculine places. Even the decor often showed that such hotels were designed primarily for men – sporting prints and [...]
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With London’s much anticipated Olympic year now in full swing, the capital’s boutique hotels continue to compete for their share of the city’s many visitors from overseas and elsewhere in the UK. In their bid to stay ahead of the competition, many are seeking to innovate perhaps to distract from all the negative publicity about high room rates. According [...]
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London Hotels Insight’s free WiFi touchdown visits are now complete, but we’ll continue to pressurise London hotels that charge extra for WiFi without stating this information clearly upfront before travellers book. During our campaign, we personally visited 14 different free WiFi London hotels and promoted them aggressively on social media. We took hundreds of photos which are being uploaded onto the [...]
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Over a period of a month, London Hotels Insight bloggers personally visited a massive 14 free WiFi London hotels (chronologically listed below) for the Free WiFi touchdown - an initiative designed to promote London’s best free WiFi hotels through the most popular social media channels; while naming and shaming some of the naughty luxury hotels that charge their guests extra for internet use without making [...]
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The award-winning Milestone Hotel, which regularly tops polls of London’s best hotels, has recently shared a video showcasing the hotel’s superior service. The short film invites guests and potential guests to step inside for a glimpse inside this much-loved 5 star boutique hotel. Guests and staff offer their opinion on what makes The Milestone one of London’s favourite [...]
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The results of the TripAdvisor 2012 Travellers’ Choice Awards recently came in. Surprisingly, no London hotel made the top ten hotels in the UK – with number 1 position snatched by the Charterhouse Hotel in Torquay. Three London establishments did however make the top 25: The Milestone coming in at 13, Hotel 41 at 15 and Haymarket Hotel at 22. [...]
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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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