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With Valentine’s Day behind us and Easter just round the corner, London’s boutique hotels have been continuing to develop their offerings in a bid to pull in the guests over the coming months. In conjunction with Somerset House’s Valentino: Master of Couture exhibition the Baglioni London ran its own V for Valentino package. The package was [...]
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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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One of the wonders of London is the plethora of hotel mascots. From Kaspar the Cat at The Savoy (who sits at the table whenever there would otherwise be thirteen guests) to the rubber ducks at Apex Hotels (waiting for guests’ in their bath tubs) and at The Stafford (in normal and super sizes, depending on [...]
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Last week we wrote about how the two Jumeriah Hotels in London have a couple of Faberge Big Eggs on display as part of the big charity Egg Hunt taking place across London in the run-up to Easter. Well now we’ve discovered a host of other central London hotels hiding some of the 200 eggs hidden [...]
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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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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 Mercer Street Hotel has a prime spot by the Seven Dials landmark. The reception is a light, contemporary space with a few well-chosen artworks – but it was the friendly staff and the way they sprung into action to help at every opportunity that drew my attention on a recent stay. The service is excellent – friendly, helpful [...]
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Once upon a time, travellers wanted to feel at home wherever they went. English tourists wanted fish and chips whether they were in Barcelona or Bodrum, Tenerife or Thailand and chain hotels offered total consistency whichever continent you were on, with the same colour carpet, the same ‘international’ menu and pretty much the same room, [...]
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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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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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Covent Garden – a hub of activity with its plethora of theatres, wide array of restaurants, bustling bars and world-class shopping – is an easy choice when picking an area of London for your next stay. And besides all the entertainment, it also offers rich pickings in terms of luxury accommodation; here are my four [...]
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The winners of the annual COOL Venues Awards, developed in 2007 by Wesley Mendy of Prestige Events magazine, were announced recently. Winners are chosen in a rather unique way looking at whether or not a venue is “COOL” enough to attract guests to RSVP to an invitation and actually turn up at the event, as well as how exciting [...]
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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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The refurbished Radisson Blu Edwardian Mercer Street (previously called Radisson Blu Edwardian Mountbatten) has undergone a massive facelift and recent guests have been raving about it. A very satisfied guest of the hotel, Tripadvisor 42Sara said: “Excellent hotel, in a fantastic location with superb staff… We will definitely be returning to this hotel and I [...]
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Today we’re live blogging and tweeting from the Radisson Blu Edwardian Bloomsbury Street as part of our freeWiFi touchdown campaign. It’s one of the group’s dozen or so 4 star hotels in London (all have free WiFi) and the perfect hotel for bookworms – more on that below! We’ve used the free WiFi for several hours [...]
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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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