LONDON > SLEEPING
EATING / DRINKING / AFTERNOON TEA / SHOPPING / SEEING
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1. Rosewood
Don’t expect the answers “spa” and “breakfast buffet” to the question “what can I do in the hotel?” At Rosewood expect cabaret performances and the like.
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2. Chiltern Firehouse
Ok Bridget Jones, you’ve had an eyeful of the doormen now go check-in to your equally as impressive room!
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3. The Hoxton
Some get a kick from champagne, yet I get a kick out of the avant garde. Hotels like The Hoxton, Holborn are revolutionising the concept of hotels. Ideal for young urban professionals that want a comfortable place to sleep and work. (8 minutes)
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4. The Zetter Townhouse
Stay at The Zetter Townhouse just so you can throw all your fancy lingerie and tophats up in the air to be caught by the four posters on the beds. (10 minutes)
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5. Yam Hard Hotel
Ever wanted to live in a showroom home straight out of Home & Design? Here’s your chance as interiors are done by an award-winning modern British style designer. Not to mention there’s a 50s style bowling alley and rooftop garden.
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6. The Soho Hotel
Kate “Soho” Moss is probably a nickname someone gave Kate once (never). When a hotel is boldly named after the foremost entertainment district it’s got to live up to its reputation. And with a screening room and Soho-sanctioned hotel restaurant & bar it indeed does.
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7. Shoreditch House
Goldilocks knew not to trust that “one size fits all” nonsense. Rooms at The Shoreditch House range from 161-170 sq ft aka “Tiny Rooms” to rooms that should by all means be called apartments.
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8. The London Edition
Do you travel so much that if you didn’t have your online hotel reservations in your inbox handy you wouldn’t know where you were going? You’ll only have to glance at your email subject line to know where you’re staying at The London Edition.
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9. Blakes Hotel
Place your travel bags (Very Troubled Child no doubt) a top the decorative Vintage Vuitton trunks in your room and watch as your bags blend into the exotic extravagance that is Blakes.
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10. The Goring
Want a crash course in British etiquette but don’t want to pay for an instructor? Stay at The Goring and you’ll pick up the best British manners in the land while only having to pay for a luxurious experience which is certainly not something you’re going to cry about.
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11. The Draycott
Live your Downton Abbey fantasies at The Draycott with room-delivered homemade biscuits to signal afternoon, champagne at sundown, and hot chocolate after supper, not to mention an honesty bar in the lounge.
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12. Dean Street Townhouse
Ever thought of networking in the past? Well, you can’t exactly chat up Lucian Freud, but you can talk about him and the Matisse that’s long since vacated the former club’s wall on the townhouse’s attic floors in your pursuit of rubbing shoulders with the who’s who in the jet set.
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13. The Kensington Hotel
Ask for the keys to the best room in the house; corner suite 123. A corner room is the more spacious exit row of hotel rooms, not to mention it’s an easy room number to remember.
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14. Flemings Mayfair
Ring up Uncle Pennybags because you’re checking into the most expensive property in Monopoly – Mayfair.
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15. The Portobello Hotel
One day, little Susie realised she had too much furniture for her dollhouse so she put the bathtub in the bedroom. Ever since then, she’d wondered what it’d be like to have a porcelain tub right by her bed. And then she stepped into the Portobello Hotel’s Exceptional Room.
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16. The Bentley London
If you’re staying at The Bentley London and intending to visit city dweller friends think again. Located in the sought after Chelsea neighbourhood, with a full fledged marble hammam, they’ll be visiting YOU.
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17. 11 Cadogan Gardens
We’ve reached the point in our story where we realise every building in London has a history and is either Georgian or Victorian. 11 Cadogan Gardens shakes it up, claimant to the city’s “most distinctive interior”, with a dramatic “hall of mirrors” restaurant.
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18. Knightsbridge Hotel
You know how bird owners say “my bird’s cage is practically not a cage it’s so big and luxurious” to make themselves feel less guilty? Well, imagine if you were told you weren’t allowed to leave Knightsbridge Hotel ever. Think about that.
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19. The Rookery
While the previous hotels owe their charm to the artistry of notable designers, The Rookery has two old gits to thank.
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20. Hazlitt's
After the 2000 pictures hanging around Hazlitt’s, I sure as hell ain’t going to the National Portrait Gallery!
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21. The Gore Hotel
Venetian beds and tapestries adorning the walls – so, this is what “rise and shine your majesty” feels like (gentleman-in-waiting not included).