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Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Street
With the Olympics on the horizon London hotels are doing all they can to attract visitors and stand out from the crowd. The latest hotel to offer something special is the Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Street. You may recall that we visited the hotel for our recent free WiFi touchdown; it has now also unveiled a new 7th floor with VIP [...]
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London Hotels Insight’s free WiFi touchdown visits are now complete, but we’ll continue to pressurise London hotels that charge extra for WiFi without stating this information clearly upfront before travellers book. During our campaign, we personally visited 14 different free WiFi London hotels and promoted them aggressively on social media. We took hundreds of photos which are being uploaded onto the [...]
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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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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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It’s Christmas time. Time for singing carols, eating too many mince pies and drinking too much mulled wine. And also time for London hotels to put up Christmas trees. London hotels traditionally vie with each other for the best trees. Claridges has hired Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz to create a tree that really is ‘glitz to the [...]
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Today we’re live blogging and tweeting from the Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Street as part of our freeWiFi touchdown campaign. It’s one of the group’s dozen or so 4 star hotels in London (all have free WiFi) and the perfect hotel for bookworms – more on that below! We’ve used the free WiFi for several hours now [...]
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Hurrah! Despite what you read in the papers about reading being a dying art and Kindles taking over the world, bookworms like myself are still very much alive and kicking – and being recognised by London’s hoteliers. Here are my favourite five hotels for literature-loving guests… Swissotel The Howard Hotel The Howard Hotel in the heart of [...]
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I recently met a friend at the St. Pancras champagne bar. Everyone deserves a moment of decadence once in a while and sitting under the giant Victorian arch you can certainly indulge yourself in an unpretentious setting. We took a seat at one of their roomy booths and looked over the menu, which covers familiar [...]
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London is going Sherlock Holmes crazy with the release of the new movie bearing the famous detective’s name. Staff at Visit Britain have even set up a special website to help visitors explore London through Sherlock’s eyes. One of the highlights of this itinerary is a visit to the Sherlock Holmes Museum (at 221B Baker [...]
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For those who want to plan their Christmas shopping, London is perfect for shopping sprees for all budgets. At the top end is Harrods, where purportedly everything and anything is available – at a price. We’ve already covered this and some of London’s other “flagship” department stores in a previous article. But there are also [...]
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London Hotels Insight loves to save you time and money, so here are some insider tips on one of London’s premier attractions: the British Museum. It’s a huge museum with some fascinating exhibits and a compulsory stop for any culturally-inclined visitor to London. Even better, it’s free! Many highlights reflect British archaeologists’ adventures in Greece, [...]
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