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London hotels go Wimbledon crazy.
The Royal Horseguards Hotel's Wimbledon afternoon tea including a ball bucket!
Wimbledon fever has begun and London hotels are getting involved whether it’s afternoon tea, 3D TV or good old strawberries and cream.
Those who weren’t lucky enough to score tickets for the court should visit the Park Plaza Victoria London for the next best thing. The hotel’s bar will be screening the Wimbledon singles finals on its 47 inch 3D television and 100 pairs of glasses will be available on the 2nd and 3rd July. The hotel is located near Victoria Station, a short walk from leading tourist attractions like Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey.
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The 5 star Royal Horseguards Hotel is always among the first to come up with themed afternoon teas and true to form, has created a special Wimbledon high tea. It features all the usual scones and sarnies as well as a bucket of homemade tennis ball truffles and Wimbledon logo cupcakes (pictured above). The tea starts from £38 per person.
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Can you guess the players? If you can, then the Royal Garden Hotel will enter you into a draw to win a 2 night London hotel break
Over at the renovated Royal Garden Hotel meanwhile, they’re serving a tennis-themed tea in which the chef has also created 8 special caricatures of well-known tennis stars using a sugar-based dough. Anyone who takes tea (priced at £22 per person) at the hotel gets to guess the players’ names: a winner picked at random will win a 2 night stay with breakfast.
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Other hotels doing a Wimbledon afternoon tea include the Wyndham Grand in Chelsea, whose afternoon tea includes a tennis ball and racquet-shaped cake priced from £20 per person. Whilst The Dorchester is serving the most expensive Wimbledon tea we could find priced at £49.50 per person: it includes coconut smash tennis balls and a miniature tennis pitch cake.
White choccie tennis balls at The Savoy
And if you don’t fancy the full afternoon tea you can always drop into The Savoy’s tea shop and pick up some of their white chocolate tennis balls.
But be quick because Wimbledon will be over before you know it!
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Photo credits: Savoy Hotel, Royal Garden Hotel, Royal Horseguards Hotel.
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