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London hotels go Sherlock Holmes crazy!
The iconic detective character, Sherlock Holmes, on the side of his very own museum
With the new Guy Ritchie movie “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” recently having been released, it’s time to look at some related London hotel deals and murder mystery games that you can participate in.
The Langham Hotel - commemorated in several Sherlock Holmes stories including “A Scandal in Bohemia” - offers guests the opportunity to retrace the steps of the iconic detective with a luxurious stay. The Sherlock Holmes package is priced at £595 per night (or £265 in a Classic Room) and includes overnight accommodation in the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Suite, English breakfast for two in Roux at The Landau, two tickets to the Sherlock Holmes London Walking Tour and a rather appropriate gift from The Langham’s in-house Book Butler – The Adventures of Sherlock Homes.
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The Langham Hotel, mentioned in several Sherlock Holmes stories, offers a special package for fans of the great detective.
If you’re after something more mysterious, Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes is just the place you’d expect a murder or two. After all, without a murder there would be no mystery for the great detective to solve. So you can now put on a deerstalker and suck your pipe (though no lighting up as it’s illegal!) as you try to solve your own case. The hotel has been hosting murder mysteries which have been specially devised just for you by a team of professional actors, one of whom is guilty.
This murder mystery experience also includes a treasure hunt around the local area to further tease your brain cells. It costs £144 per person, including a night’s stay, breakfast, the treasure hunt, the mystery and a 3 course dinner (based on two sharing a room). It’s arranged by the original Murder Mystery Events company, which has been in this business for years (if you’ve been on one of their murder mysteries before, you’ll be pleased to note that scripts/outcomes are regularly varied).
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The Sherlock Holmes Hotel offers a special murder mystery to add intrigue to your stay!
The Hendon Hall Hotel in north London also offers dinner-only, as well as one and two-night packages. Its murder mysteries are put on by theatre company The Killing Game. Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre also hosts murder mysteries at venues including the Rembrandt Hotel and Charing Cross Hotel, so there are plenty of options to choose from.
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The Charing Cross Hotel hosts the Murder Mystery dinner theatre.
You might also want to give your detective skills a workout by seeing The Mousetrap - the longest-running show of any kind in the world - at St Martin’s Theatre. It’s been running since 1952 and still going strong, though with several changes of cast since opening – the cast now changes annually (though two of the early actors lasted 11 years in their roles).
There’s one exception to the changes. Spookily, one of the original cast still appears in the play even though he died in 1999 – Deryck Guyler recorded the radio news bulletin in the play and you can still hear it just the way it was on the first night. One prop also remains from the original (twice changed) set – the clock on the mantelpiece in the main hall.
And the cast are still asking theatre-goers not to reveal the twist in the plot that brings about the surprise ending…
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Photo credits: ell brown, The Langham Hotel, Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes, Charing Cross Hotel.
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