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Rubens at the Palace
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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From the moment I arrived at the Rubens at the Palace, the clouds parted from the sky and the sun started shining as if the hotel staff had arranged the weather for my arrival…I later learned that it’s that kind of place! I’ve visited the hotel before - both for our Free WiFi Touchdown and later to inspect the hotel’s [...]
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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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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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We were recently inspecting the conferencing facilities of the Rubens at the Palace luxury boutique hotel when we caught the hotel staff busy making preparations for a Scottish celebration to honour their corporate partners. The idea came from General Manager Malcolm Hendry – a proud Scot himself – who likes to make this an annual celebration in true Rubens style, to introduce others [...]
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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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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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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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Thirty odd years ago, a hotel’s business centre was essential to business travellers: without it, you simply couldn’t communicate. You needed the fax back then for a start and later when the internet arrived you needed a networked computer to connect to it (and wouldn’t imagine getting one in your room). In fact, you relied on [...]
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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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Fancy being the Queen’s neighbour for a night? Then the Rubens at the Palace - a 4 star luxury London hotel directly opposite Buckingham Palace’s Royal Mews – may be just the hotel for you. With its unique location, it’s the ideal place to stay for anyone who feels enchanted by the Royal Family. The [...]
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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’s hotels are falling over themselves to make tots welcome during the current summer holidays. Special promotions to attract families can be found all over the capital, but below I’ve listed my favourite four: Kiddies’ Cinema at Rubens at the Palace Hotel Throughout August, the Rubens at the Palace Hotel is transforming one of its conference suites into [...]
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Ever tried playing tennis on your own? Fancied a kickabout but had no team mates? Or simply prefer working out with a friend? If that’s you (it’s certainly me!) then you’ll be pleased to hear about the new sports buddy-up scheme at two of London’s best boutique luxury hotels, Rubens at the Palace and 41 [...]
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The Royal Wedding has given London hotels and hoteliers a real boost. Some hotels are already fully booked for the Royal Wedding as this blog previously reported; and research house Verdict reckons the event as a whole will boost the UK economy by a cool £620m. The problem for hoteliers, though, is that while everyone [...]
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