Exploring London since 2007
Belgraves, the boutique Thompson Hotel chain’s only offering outside the continental USA, is currently displaying what must be the city’s most unusual Christmas Tree – it’s made of books! The tree, which greets you as soon you enter Belgraves’ atrium, is constructed using 385 titles from Cologne-based art book publisher TASCHEN – it stands seven [...]
This time last week I was at the new Aloft London ExCeL, the Starwood group’s budget conscious yet modern 252-room hotel for a special event. Recently they’ve been running a competition, ‘Play and Stay at Aloft’, where they asked unsigned bands to submit demos of their material, with the winner being invited to record a [...]
We Londoners rarely get the opportunity to peer behind the doors of the city’s more exclusive hotels. While we might see the inside of a conference room at a Hilton or Radisson from time to time, the 5-star establishments simply aren’t our radar. After all, we have our small flats and cosy terraced houses to [...]
New hotels don’t pop up in the City of London very often, so I was eager to see what D&D London, the celebrated restauraters, are bringing to the Square Mile from September with the opening of the South Place hotel. A new boutique hotel, the South Place hotel will feature eighty rooms and two very special restaurants. [...]
A few weeks ago I was invited to take a sneak peek behind the scenes at the Cavendish Hotel on the corner of Jermyn St and Duke St in Mayfair, one of London’s finest 4 star establishments. Although the current building dates from the mid-1960s (with a rather nifty addition I’ll get to later) its [...]
This evening I was lucky enough to be invited to a bloggers’ reception at the Thistle Hotel in Brighton , which sits out on the seafront next to the ‘Lanes’ and a few hundred yards from the pier. Having stayed at the Hilton in Brighton before I was expecting a similar experience at the Thistle, [...]
Today I’m going to tell you about the interesting evening I had last night, being shown around the boutique 5-star Andaz Hotel right next to Liverpool St station in central London. Back in the late 19th century, this building started its life as the Great Eastern Hotel, built to support the expanding British rail network [...]
