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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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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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There is nothing worse than waking up in your hotel room, realising you’ve missed breakfast and have only 15 minutes to shower, pack and check out. Madness! If this sounds like you, you may want to stay at Rubens at The Palace this winter and check out their latest deal. The luxury hotel near Victoria is part [...]
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Across the road from the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace is Hotel 41 - a free WiFi 5 star boutique London hotel which has been at or near the top of the Tripadvisor charts for quite a while thanks to its flawless service and stylish retro design. We recently visited to test its promise of free WiFi. Hotel 41, just like the Rubens [...]
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With another year having flown by, I thought I’d have a go at trying to work out which new trends will stick and which will sink without trace… There are some indisputably major trends – I suppose the boutique hotel has been one of the bigger trends, as well as the expansion into hotels by luxury brands such as Bulgari. [...]
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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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The next hotel on our tour of London’s best free WiFi hotels is Rubens at the Palace - already featured on this blog for its unique location right opposite the Royal Mews and its outstanding concierge team. As you may know, London Hotels Insight recently launched the free WiFi touchdown project to promote the UK capital’s leading free WiFi hotels. The Rubens [...]
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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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I wrote before about The Chesterfield Mayfair’s unique brand of afternoon tea, The Poetea, featuring musings by Britain’s premiere tea poet Elizabeth Darcy-Jones. Well, she must have gone down like a cup of tea in a drought as the hotel has just announced her as its official poet in residence. Her stint at The Chesterfield Mayfair’s [...]
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The luxurious Egerton House Hotel is already probably London’s cosiest 5 star boutique hotel with its 28 individually-styled rooms and wonderfully hospitable little bar famous for serving some of the best martinis in London. It now has a further treat in store for guests this winter with the addition of a complimentary refreshment table in [...]
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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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If our post on London’s four most expensive hotel rooms whetted your appetite for the high life, you’ll be pleased to know that you can live the lifestyle without bearing those eye-watering prices. Whilst these suites certainly aren’t cheap, they do offer super value given the “wow” factor they offer, proving you can splash out without [...]
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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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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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