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Montague on the Gardens
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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Last winter the Montague on the Gardens created a ‘winter wonderland’, turning its outside terrace into an alpine ski lodge with a BBQ and cocktails to create the perfect apres ski environment. Well now it’s summer and the luxury boutique London hotel has teamed up with floral designer and fragrance creator Kenneth Turner to create a [...]
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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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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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For many of us a room in a luxury hotel is already an indulgence. But for some, even that’s not enough - they want a suite. Sometimes the reason is tangible – an entourage or a large family. A suite is required for entertaining; it’s difficult to hold a dinner in a bedroom, after all. A suite [...]
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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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Today we’ve taken our campaign to promote free WiFi London hotels to the beautiful Montague on the Gardens Hotel in Bloomsbury. Regular readers will be familiar with this gem of a boutique luxury hotel, which currently has an atmospheric apres ski bar on its terrace; and know that it serves some of the best afternoon teas in London. Book direct with the [...]
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As the nights draw in and Christmas looms ever closer, right now is a great time to explore London whether for a spot of Christmas shopping in the newly lit-up shopping precincts, to check out the festive markets or simply to kick back and take it easy. And if you want to stay somewhere with [...]
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We’ve already revealed how the outdoor Wood Deck at The Montague on the Gardens will be transformed into a central London Alpine ski lodge throughout December – a sort of apres-ski bar without the ski. Now we’ve even had a sneak preview of the festive atmosphere thanks to a party attended by London Hotels Insight and other bloggers recently. As you [...]
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During the summer months, the Wood Deck at the Montague Hotel is popular for barbecues and cocktails – only last month we enjoyed a cigar and whisky event there as well as some alfresco dining back in July. And this year the 4 star luxury London hotel has added a winter season too! The area will be transformed [...]
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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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