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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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Back at the start of 2010, we wrote reviews of the best of London’s spas, unearthing six which we rated as better than the rest: The Dorchester Spa, So SPA at Sofitel St James, Renaissance Chancery Court Spa, Mandarin Oriental London Spa, The Berkeley Spa, Spa Studio at the Lanesborough. Now, nearly two years on, it’s [...]
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The problem with London hotels in the past wasn’t always that the food was unexciting; quite a few hotels had extremely good chefs working for them. No, the problem was that the ambience was unexciting – ancient waiters in dinner jackets, rooms that hadn’t been redecorated since the Duke of Wellington’s day and a rather starchy [...]
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It’s possible to drop several hundred quid having a decent meal in London these days. Yes, after decades cast into outer darkness, London has become the epicentre of the gastronomic world – but its new prominence has come at a price. However, impecunious foodies need not fear. There are ways of getting a very reasonably [...]
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I really can’t afford £11,300 for the Mandarin Oriental London’s Royal Wedding package. If I treated my significant other to the tour, I’d be spending £18,000 – pretty much what I live on for the year! So I thought I’d see if I could put together the same tour for rather less. Of course I [...]
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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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London Hotels Insight is all about inside information to help you enjoy a great stay in London by securing the best hotel for your budget. But it’s also fun (and cheaper!) to hang out in London’s top hotels even if you’re not actually staying there. So we’ve crafted our “top 10” list of super London [...]
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Having covered the exquisite spas at the Dorchester and Sofitel St James, the next stop on our spa tour of London hotels is the Mandarin Oriental. The Mandarin Oriental’s spa is housed in the basement of this well-known Knightsbridge hotel. It is the epitome of elegance and indulgence. Dark granite passages lit up by tea-lights [...]
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