Showing posts with label England-London-hotels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label England-London-hotels. Show all posts
January 31, 2011
November 8, 2010
London, England: The Montague on the Gardens; hotel review
15 Montague St., WC1B 5BJ, l 011-44-020-7637-1001; www.montaguehotel.com. 4 stars. 88 rooms, 11 suites. Sauna.
Located in Bloomsbury right across the street from the British Museum, the elegant luxury Montague on the Gardens hotel backs on a large shared garden with Bedford Place. Rooms are beautifully decorated, and a proper afternoon tea is served in the Lounge. Plaid and chintz fabrics mix with antiques and fine finishes for a very posh ambiance.
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Located in Bloomsbury right across the street from the British Museum, the elegant luxury Montague on the Gardens hotel backs on a large shared garden with Bedford Place. Rooms are beautifully decorated, and a proper afternoon tea is served in the Lounge. Plaid and chintz fabrics mix with antiques and fine finishes for a very posh ambiance.
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September 13, 2010
London, England: The Portland Hotel; hotel review
The Portland Hotel
31-32 Bedford Place, in Bloomsbury, +44 (0) 20 7580 7088. 18 rooms. Weekend rates include continental breakfast.
This beautifully restored Georgian townhouse has large rooms—some with high ceilings and decorative molding, and some in the back with large windows overlooking the Duke of Bedford’s former garden (it is a backyard running the length of Bedford Place and shared with Montague Street).
The sophisticated decor at The Portland Hotel falls somewhere between contemporary style and old-fashioned English chintz. I liked the “fitted kitchenette” in a closet, and most especially its tea cabinet equipped with a hot water kettle and tea bags. Our dramatic oversized bathroom had the same tall ceiling as the bedroom plus another window looking out to the yard, a large soaking tub and shower, and a shiny black marble floor in which I could actually see my reflection.
Breakfast is taken a few doors down the street in a sister hotel, The Clarendon. Guests can relax with a drink in the bar lounge there, too, or just sit in a private back garden.
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This beautifully restored Georgian townhouse has large rooms—some with high ceilings and decorative molding, and some in the back with large windows overlooking the Duke of Bedford’s former garden (it is a backyard running the length of Bedford Place and shared with Montague Street).
The sophisticated decor at The Portland Hotel falls somewhere between contemporary style and old-fashioned English chintz. I liked the “fitted kitchenette” in a closet, and most especially its tea cabinet equipped with a hot water kettle and tea bags. Our dramatic oversized bathroom had the same tall ceiling as the bedroom plus another window looking out to the yard, a large soaking tub and shower, and a shiny black marble floor in which I could actually see my reflection.
Breakfast is taken a few doors down the street in a sister hotel, The Clarendon. Guests can relax with a drink in the bar lounge there, too, or just sit in a private back garden.
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image courtesy of hotel
August 22, 2010
London, England: The Stafford London; hotel review
St. James’s Place, SW1A 1NJ, +44 (0) 20-7493 0111, US 800-525-4800 or 800-448-8355. Restaurant; bar.
Situated on the site that once held the home of Sir Christopher Wren, who is known for designing St. Paul’s Cathedral, this tasteful small hotel is located on a tranquil cul de sac in an exclusive residential section of town. Understatedly elegant, The Stafford London, by Kempinski spoils guests with marble bathrooms featuring deep tubs equipped with full-size soaps. My favorite amenity was the soft, fluffy terry cloth slippers that greeted me on my pillow at turndown instead of a chocolate. The hotel’s celebrated, cozy American Bar is decorated with an eclectic collection of ties, baseball caps, and other items that travelers have purposely left behind. Its head barman, Charles, claims to have exported the first dry martini to the U.S.
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Situated on the site that once held the home of Sir Christopher Wren, who is known for designing St. Paul’s Cathedral, this tasteful small hotel is located on a tranquil cul de sac in an exclusive residential section of town. Understatedly elegant, The Stafford London, by Kempinski spoils guests with marble bathrooms featuring deep tubs equipped with full-size soaps. My favorite amenity was the soft, fluffy terry cloth slippers that greeted me on my pillow at turndown instead of a chocolate. The hotel’s celebrated, cozy American Bar is decorated with an eclectic collection of ties, baseball caps, and other items that travelers have purposely left behind. Its head barman, Charles, claims to have exported the first dry martini to the U.S.
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image courtesy of hotel
updated August 25, 2023
August 13, 2010
London, England: The Langham, London; hotel review
1 Portland Pl., (44) 20 7636 1000.
Located in the West End, just a block from the upscale, curved shopping strip known as Regent Street and not far from Regents Park and the London Zoo, The Langham London hotel was established in 1865. It was London’s first grand hotel. It was also the first hotel in town to have hot and cold running water in every bathroom, and the first hotel in the world to have hydraulic passenger lifts (or “ascending rooms,” as elevators were once called here). Featured in many Sherlock Holmes sagas, it was closed after a bomb attack during World War II. Reopened in 1991, it has been restored to its original splendor. Rooms are posh, pale, and thoroughly modern, with all-marble bathrooms. An expansive breakfast is included and presented buffet-style in a magnificent room with its own name--Memories of the Empire.
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Located in the West End, just a block from the upscale, curved shopping strip known as Regent Street and not far from Regents Park and the London Zoo, The Langham London hotel was established in 1865. It was London’s first grand hotel. It was also the first hotel in town to have hot and cold running water in every bathroom, and the first hotel in the world to have hydraulic passenger lifts (or “ascending rooms,” as elevators were once called here). Featured in many Sherlock Holmes sagas, it was closed after a bomb attack during World War II. Reopened in 1991, it has been restored to its original splendor. Rooms are posh, pale, and thoroughly modern, with all-marble bathrooms. An expansive breakfast is included and presented buffet-style in a magnificent room with its own name--Memories of the Empire.
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updated Aug. 25, 2023
July 24, 2010
London, England: 47 Park Street; hotel review
47 Park Street
In Mayfair, +44 (0)20 7491 7282.
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| exterior of 47 Park Street hotel in London, England |
Decidedly upscale, this small Edwardian-style luxury apartment collection is part of the Marriott Grand Residence Club, but it is possible to rent by the night. 47 Park Street is just a few blocks from Hyde Park’s Speaker’s Corner and the shops on bustling Oxford Street. My spacious, tastefully decorated, comfortably appointed lodging was blessedly quiet (the windows are triple glazed), and the elegant gray marble bathroom was hidden behind a false wardrobe door and filled with amenities--terry cloth slippers, emery boards, nail brushes, and Molton Brown aromatherapy essence for the bathtub.
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image c2010 Carole Terwilliger Meyers
July 19, 2010
London, England: The Ridgemount Hotel; hotel review
65-67 Gower St., Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6HJ; +44 (0) 20 7636 1141, and +44 (0) 20 7580 7060.
Located just across the street from where women’s suffrage pioneer Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett lived and died (in 1929) at #2 Gower, and from where the first anaesthetic was administered in England in 1846 at #52, the simple Ridgemount Private Hotel operates within in a 1700s Georgian town house and offers rooms with and without baths. On my second trip to London, when my budget was weak but my bladder was still strong, we opted for the cheapest room in the house, sans bath. Note that Gower Street is a noisy thoroughfare and that building restrictions forbid double-glazing the windows. Request a quiet room in back.
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updated Aug. 25, 2023
Located just across the street from where women’s suffrage pioneer Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett lived and died (in 1929) at #2 Gower, and from where the first anaesthetic was administered in England in 1846 at #52, the simple Ridgemount Private Hotel operates within in a 1700s Georgian town house and offers rooms with and without baths. On my second trip to London, when my budget was weak but my bladder was still strong, we opted for the cheapest room in the house, sans bath. Note that Gower Street is a noisy thoroughfare and that building restrictions forbid double-glazing the windows. Request a quiet room in back.
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image courtesy of hotel
updated Aug. 25, 2023
July 14, 2010
London, England: Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Street Hotel; hotel review
9-13 Bloomsbury Street, + 44 (0)20 7636 5601, US toll-free 800-333-3333. 4 stars. 175 rooms.
Featuring a thoroughly modern interior, the spiffy Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Street Hotel is located in the same area as The Kingsley, adjacent to the British Museum.
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updated Aug. 25, 2023
Featuring a thoroughly modern interior, the spiffy Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Street Hotel is located in the same area as The Kingsley, adjacent to the British Museum.
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updated Aug. 25, 2023
July 7, 2010
London, England: Thistle Holburn, The Kingsley; hotel review
Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2SD; 0871 376 9006 /+44 845 305 8306.
Built in 1898, the gorgeous red-brick Kingsley by Thistle hotel was originally named for Charles Kingsley, the author of some popular English children’s books. It is in a prime location just a few blocks from The British Museum and Covent Garden. Bloomsbury has always attracted writer residents and visitors, and the hotel can claim that E.M. Forester slept here in 1902. Though I remember fondly staying here in a room equipped with a canopy bed and decorated with wallpaper and chintzes in a lovely theme of pale yellow and English blue, the hotel has been refurbished into more contemporary style. But some rooms still have a view of the ancient roof of The Parish Church of St. Georges Bloomsbury (located just next door, it was built in the early 1700s by a former pupil and assistant of Sir Christopher Wren). One of my favorite amenities was the room’s tea tray, stocked with Scottish chocolate chip shortbread and Cadbury’s hot chocolate.
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updated August 25, 2023
Built in 1898, the gorgeous red-brick Kingsley by Thistle hotel was originally named for Charles Kingsley, the author of some popular English children’s books. It is in a prime location just a few blocks from The British Museum and Covent Garden. Bloomsbury has always attracted writer residents and visitors, and the hotel can claim that E.M. Forester slept here in 1902. Though I remember fondly staying here in a room equipped with a canopy bed and decorated with wallpaper and chintzes in a lovely theme of pale yellow and English blue, the hotel has been refurbished into more contemporary style. But some rooms still have a view of the ancient roof of The Parish Church of St. Georges Bloomsbury (located just next door, it was built in the early 1700s by a former pupil and assistant of Sir Christopher Wren). One of my favorite amenities was the room’s tea tray, stocked with Scottish chocolate chip shortbread and Cadbury’s hot chocolate.
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image courtesy of hotel
updated August 25, 2023
June 28, 2010
London, England: Crescent Hotel; hotel review
-watermark.jpg "exterior of the Crescent Hotel in Bloomsbury, London")
Crescent Hotel
no website; book through reservations website. 49-50 Cartwright Gardens, in Bloomsbury, 011-44-(0)20 7387 1515. 27 rooms. Full breakfast.
Located on a crescent-shaped street across from the bucolic Cartwright Gardens, where tennis courts and a playground beckon, this aptly-named bed and breakfast is situated within a converted Georgian building dating from 1810. Because the Crescent Hotel is an historic building, regulations forbid putting in a lift, so unless you luck out with a room on the ground floor, you do have to lug your suitcase up some narrow stairs. It has private bathrooms as well as triple and quadruple rooms--important features that can be difficult for families to find abroad. Bear in mind, though, that the bathrooms seem to be converted closets and are very, very small. It was here that I found myself across the breakfast table from my testy pre-teen and innocently commented, "You look really nice today. Are you wearing make-up?" She cuttingly replied, "No, I didn't bother. There's no one here to impress."
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Located on a crescent-shaped street across from the bucolic Cartwright Gardens, where tennis courts and a playground beckon, this aptly-named bed and breakfast is situated within a converted Georgian building dating from 1810. Because the Crescent Hotel is an historic building, regulations forbid putting in a lift, so unless you luck out with a room on the ground floor, you do have to lug your suitcase up some narrow stairs. It has private bathrooms as well as triple and quadruple rooms--important features that can be difficult for families to find abroad. Bear in mind, though, that the bathrooms seem to be converted closets and are very, very small. It was here that I found myself across the breakfast table from my testy pre-teen and innocently commented, "You look really nice today. Are you wearing make-up?" She cuttingly replied, "No, I didn't bother. There's no one here to impress."
More London hotels.
More ideas for exploring Europe.
image c2010 Carole Terwilliger Meyers
updated Aug. 25, 2023
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