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Boutique hotels offer a unique way to experience London and fortunately the UK’s capital has many top-notch ones to choose from, with new ones emerging all the time. For the very latest on the city’s dynamic boutique hotel scene, read on for our September news round-up… According to a report published this month by hotel consultants [...]
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The London Restaurant Festival 2011 hits the capital in a few days, running from October 3-17 as a citywide celebration of eating out. The festival consists of several elements – fringe ‘side orders’, such as chocolate tours and medieval banqueting, restaurants providing special festival menus, as well as more extravagant main events. To save you [...]
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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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Nightjar, Old Street You wouldn’t know Nightjar existed unless you know it – in fact I lived a two minute walk from it for months before learning of its existence. The bar’s unassuming exterior – it doesn’t even have a sign – conceals a far more exciting interior. It plays host to a programme of [...]
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The latest eagerly-anticipated hotel offering from The Dorchester Collection, 45 Park Lane, opened last week. And with room rates starting from £395 we were pleased to see that WiFi is free throughout the hotel. However we were not so pleased to discover that the original Dorchester Hotel in London - a 5 star hotel with similarly lofty [...]
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Andrea’s already debated whether hotel gyms are a waste of space, and cited research which implied that three quarters of travellers are swayed on where to stay by a hotel’s gym facilities. If, like me, you count yourself among them, it’s handy to know not only that your hotel has a gym but also what that gym [...]
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For two weeks in summer 2012, London’s hotels will become the most desirable real estate in the world. Thousands will flock to enjoy the world-renowned spectacle that is these quadrennial games, happening in the UK capital for the first time since 1948. You can’t be sluggish in booking a hotel for the London Olympics, as [...]
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While some London boutique hotels like the Hempel are totally Zen – cool minimalism, white space, almost austere in design – others are at the opposite end: crammed full of antiques, upholstery and vibrant colour. And what’s in fashion seems to swing from one pole to the other from year to year. Then each of [...]
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London has a great deal to offer in surprising and delighting diehard fans of the silver screen. For one thing, it is a fabulous film set as our recent review of the best movies which use London as a backdrop highlighted. But as well as numerous film-related events in the capital, several London hotels even [...]
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Passport to Pimlico. Notting Hill. The Lavender Hill Mob. 84 Charing Cross Road. 10 Rillington Place. London’s geography resounds in the titles of films – and in many of them, you might say, the city itself is the hero. London is one of the world’s great film sets. It’s naturally at the centre of many [...]
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Kit Kemp – the design genius behind boutique hotel chain Firmdale Hotels – recently carried out a comprehensive redesign of the flagship Loft Suite at the company’s highly-rated Covent Garden Hotel. The suite is a duplex penthouse imbued with a fresh new look based on an open-plan layout. The mezzanine-style space has a well-proportioned dining [...]
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Checklist-based star rating systems were historically the natural way to rank and classify hotels. When the Savoy opened in London in 1889 it was seen as the ultimate luxury hotel: features like electric lifts and individual bathrooms were a genuine novelty and the epitome of indulgence. As competitors in the next century caught up or [...]
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Purely in the name of research of course, London Hotels Insight has been secretly checking out some of the UK capital’s very best hotel bars. We reviewed all bars anonymously and paid our own way. Visits were recent so opinions are up-to-date though you may not always agree with them. Any list of this kind [...]
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From Christopher Wren’s magnificent St Paul’s Cathedral to Norman Foster’s iconic ‘Gherkin’, the UK capital certainly has no shortage of architectural and design flair (and its fair share of ugly buildings too!). But away from such well known sites of photogenic splendour, London’s hotels also have a lot to offer anyone with an eye for [...]
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On a recent summer’s evening, a friend and I decided to check out Barrafina, the tapas bar in Soho that everyone’s talking about, followed by Latin American cocktails at the Soho Hotel’s “Refuel” bar. Having sampled real tapas all over Spain, I am very sceptical when it comes to any UK-based restaurateur’s interpretation of tapas. [...]
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Firmdale Hotels has done well to sew up some of the top spots on TripAdvisor for its six London hotels. This has been achieved with a smart blend of good taste in design and attentive yet unintrusive service. Their stylish Soho Hotel for example is a celebrity magnet and consistently in the top 5 London [...]
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