The Dorchester Hotel
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Hotel Coverage: The Dorchester Hotel
What's Out, What's In: Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend
We've started a series of what’s trending in hotels these days: What’s Out, What’s In. Do we like what we see? Think it's a dud? You be the judge! What’s Out: Seaweed facials What's In: Facials with gold, diamonds and other sparkly things Diamonds and other precious metals and...
April 18, 2013
Only a Pratt Would Think Hotel Dry Cleaning's Cheap
We've recently written about sneaky hotel fees that are creeping onto our bills, but we'd like to think people are paying attention to obvious actions that will result in hefty charges. That's why our eyes nearly rolled out of our heads when we read this little ditty in the...
March 26, 2013
Celebrate Chinese New Year With These Three Luxury Hotels
If you can’t make it to Shanghai or Hong Kong for Chinese New Year on February 10, all is not lost. From an authentic “Year of the Snake” Cantonese culinary experience in London to an authentic Chinese Carnival in Paris to VIP access at San Francisco’s Chinese New Year...
February 08, 2013
There's Beef and New Beefed-Up Suites At The Dorchester London
Earlier this week we paid a visit to check out the newest addition to The Dorchester London's accommodations: 22 suites redesigned by Alexandra Champalimaud. Lady Gaga unfortunately wasn’t around to offer us a free hotel room, but we did pass Sir Anthony Hopkins in the lobby, which was good...
September 28, 2012
A New Reason To Make Friends With Lady Gaga: Free Hotel Rooms
The perks of being a celebrity are numerous: restaurants fall over themselves to give you the best seat in the house, stylists are employed full-time to make you look fab, and you even get to show up unannounced at other people's fancy hotel weddings! What a life. But once in...
September 11, 2012
Olympics Officials Probably Spent $70,000 on Lunch at The Dorchester
It might be good to be the Queen of England but it's apparently better to be an Olympics boss in London right now. The other day Reddit user posted this photo of a receipt from a lunch attended by "15 Olympics bosses" in London which totalled £44,660, or about $70,000USD....
August 03, 2012
Here's a Way to Wear Your Love for The Dorchester Around Your Neck
When we fall in love with a hotel, we do what we can to bring the hotel experience home with us. Sometimes, we settle for the bath toiletries or the note pad and pencils. Other times, we shell out money for limited edition items like scented candles, plush bathrobes, tote...
July 03, 2012
If He Was Your Boyfriend, You'd Be Getting Kicked Out Of Hotels
After several years of showing up at hotels, causing mass hysteria among fans while they wait outside, and causing hotels themselves to bang their heads against the wall while they deal with all the craziness, the Biebs has finally been booted from a hotel. Though, in all fairness, it wasn't...
June 12, 2012
Salacious WWII-Era Stories of London's West End Gems Spotlighted in New Book
London's undeniably posh West End plays home to some of the city's most impressive—and oftentimes hoity toity—hotels: The Ritz, Langham, and Dorchester all cater to an upper crust clientele who know luxury and expect its delivery in spades. ...
December 05, 2011
The Dorchester Celebrates 80 Years of Celebrity Meltdowns...With Trees?
The Dorchester Hotel, home to many a celebrity breakdown, is having a birthday, and not just any birthday--an 80th birthday. Congrats! They've outlived Liz Taylor and Michael Jackson! (even though he was banned from the hotel.) But yet instead of hosting some crazy party filled with all the crazy...
April 07, 2011
Liz Taylor's Favorite Hotels (Or, Places That Got a Whiff of White Diamonds)
Elizabeth Taylor has gone to the great presidential penthouse suite in the sky and the only proper way we know how to mourn the great actress is by looking at her favorite hotels. A random Google search brought up this amazeballs website for us, Hotels of the Rich and...
March 24, 2011
Willow Smith Flicks Her Hair At The Dorchester
Willow and her yellow hit the road in Manchester The Dorchester Hotel has more than its fair share of celebrity guests - and it was only a couple of months ago that Nicki Minaj got the boot after her fans caused mayhem. However there were no reports of trouble when...
March 22, 2011
Nicki Minaj Gets Booted from The Dorchester in London
It's official--The Dorchester is THE hotel for crazy celeb behavior. Here's yet another tale to add to the collection. Hip-hop darling Nicki Minaj always seems to grab attention, whether it be for her Lady Gaga-esque ensembles, crazy wigs or fierce rhymes. But when she checked into the Dorchester in...
January 24, 2011
The Dorchester Now Taking Reservations for Fashion Tea with Amanda Wakely
We really enjoyed sharing afternoon tea with Katy Perry at Claridige’s last year. Ok, ok we may not have been invited by her but that didn’t stop us getting extra close to her table and gawking. So when we saw that The Dorchester was running a special afternoon tea...
January 18, 2011
London Mayor Gets Suite Justice by Canceling FIFA Officials' Dorchester Rezzies
The Dorchester is known for being celeb crazy central, so it's no surprise that it's also the scene of some political drama. London Mayor Boris Johnson revoked an invite to World Cup-governing FIFA officials to shack up at the hotel's posh suites for free during the 2012 Olympic Games...
December 06, 2010
Where to Stay in London for The Royal Wedding (But Hurry, Book Now)
UPDATE: The Athaneuam London is disputing the report that their prices are double the usual rate. Instead, the hotel told us they are quoting folks at £500 a night for the Royal Wedding weekend. However, their website is still not showing any availability for that weekend. London hotels were...
December 06, 2010
Sippin' on Gin and Tea at the Dorchester in London
We love the Dorchester bar and we love its cocktails even more so we’re excited to hear about the latest drink to grace its Martini glasses: the Bombay Londres. Made from Bombay Sapphire gin (naturlich) along with Darjeeling tea, mango syrup and lime, it’s a catch it while you...
September 16, 2010
The Dorchester's Wimbledon Tea Cooks Up the Cutest Tea Cakes Ever
While the rest of the world is fully in the grips of World Cup fever, London and the snobbier bits of Britain have a side fascination: Wimbledon. And to see watch Venus Williams and Roger Federer run up and down the courts in the world's oldest and most prestigious...
June 23, 2010
Five Hotels in London For Russian Billionaires
The Polo Bar at the Westbury: scene of the crimeski. So, you’re a billionaire. A Russian one, no less. You’re in London. And instead of buying up half of Chelsea to sleep in on your odd visits, like all the other RBs, you want to stay in a hotel....
May 03, 2010
Dorchester Collection Hosts Their Own 'Project Runway' With £25,000 Fashion Prize
Wannabe luxury fashion designers, listen up! The Dorchester Collection of hotels—we're talking places like Hotel Le Meurice in Paris, Principe di Savoia in Milan and Gossip Girl-favorite New York Palace—is launching a fashion prize which will award £25,000 prize ($38,000), accommodations and an event to one talented person with...
April 07, 2010
When We Grow Up, We Want to Hit the Dorchester Spa
Pretty pots of nail polish may not quite be what we had in mind yesterday when we asked what secrets the doormen at the The Dorchester could tell us, but anyways. These pictures make us happy so we thought we had to share. We were privy to a tour...
March 11, 2010
What Stories the Dorchester Doormen Must Have
Ah yes, The Dorchester. Famous spot of celebrity breakdowns, divine tea service, and even a Sex and the City package, but it's always important to remember that at the end of the day, it's still just another expensive hotel in London. We recently meandered around the place, and amongst...
March 10, 2010
The Dorchester Gets SATC Fever (But No Sex, Please, They're British)
Well, The Dorchester’s getting a bit racy at the moment, isn’t it? If it’s not taking over the ex Playboy Club as its latest outpost, it’s jumping on the whole Sex and the City bandwagon. Not that the Dorchester would sell sex, of course – in fact, it’s not...
March 03, 2010
The Dorchester Collection Is Branching Out...To The Playboy Club
The Dorchester. Playboy. Not two words you’d normally associate together, but all this is about to change. Not that the Dorchester Collection is saucing up its image – it’s merely being inclusive as it branches out. Turns out that the site for its next London hotel, 45 Park Lane,...
March 01, 2010
Learn How to Mix Proper Drinks at These Hotels
If watching Tom Cruise in Cocktail made you want to start bartending, belly up to a hotel bar for a mixology class. Okay, you'll likely be focusing on not spilling the liquor rather than tossing bottles in the air, but at least you'll finally be able to mix yourself...
February 05, 2010
Peach Colored Tissues, Stripper Poles and Other Outrageous Celebrity Hotel Demands
You know that famous story about Van Halen demanding M&M’s with all the brown ones removed in their dressing room before concerts? Well, that got us thinking: What do world-famous celebrities these days demand of the hotels they stay in? As we found out after a little bit of digging,...
February 01, 2010
The Dorchester's Christmas Concierge Tells Us Where to Go
You wouldn’t know it was Christmas from the weather in London at the moment; you’d think you’d stepped back in time to the Great Flood. So we got a little thrill yesterday when we strolled into The Dorchester and saw the lobby all dolled up with Christmas trees and...
December 03, 2009
'Twilight' Stars Forced to Face the Sunlight at The Dorchester
What if we told you that you had to guess the one hotel in London where "Twilight" stars (and lovers) Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, along with fellow co-start Taylor Lautner were forced to evacuate because of a fire alarm? C'mon it isn't that hard. It's the hotel where...
November 12, 2009
The Dorchester London Hosts A Tea Party In British Airways' Skies
It seems like afternoon tea has been picking up heat in London again, now that the classic hotels are updating their menus and places like Covent Garden are taking it outside and literally dancing around it. Among the top hotels for tea is the classic and celeb favorite Dorchester,...
June 26, 2009
The HotelChatter Diva Tracker: Mariah, Beyonce and Madge
Mariah arrives at the Dorchester. If you were a pop-star diva a la Madonna and could, ostensibly, spend nights in any hotel in the whole entire world, where would you go? The Seasons? The Ritz? We'd guess old-school, Sean-Penn-era Madge would probably hit up The Standard NYC with all...
June 12, 2009
What Britney Wants From The Dorchester Hotel in London
The Britney Spears comeback train will be taking its show across the pond next month for an eight-show stint at London's 02 Arena and someone at CBS News got a hold of the contract rider given to The Dorchester Hotel for when Brit checks in. · A room that...
May 05, 2009
Jetlagged Jacko Is Alienating London’s Hotels
So Michael Jackson left London yesterday after coming over for a week to announce his world tour. Seeing as that only took a mere three minutes, he had to find other things to do. Like seeing a West End version of Oliver!, and, um, getting drunk and going crazy,...
March 10, 2009
Coming Soon: Tea At the Dorchester In Your Bathrobe
Ah, the ever-present celeb dilemma – to grow old gracefully or invest in a little nip n tuck? Well it’s the same problem for celeb hotels. While the Langham is about to dust itself off from its £80m refurbishment, the Dorchester is looking forward to opening what it says/hopes...
February 27, 2009
Dorchester Collection Rounds Up New and Old Celebs for Latest Ads
Perhaps using the old adage, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," the Dorchester Collection of hotels has unveiled a new advertising campaign featuring some legendary celebrities--some dead, some alive--which began its run in this month's Vanity Fair. Stuart Elliott of the NY Times reports that the ad campaign...
February 23, 2009
London's Dorchester Once Again Scene of Celebrity Panic Attack
There's tons of hotel news flying around this week and we don't have time to give each and every story the love and attention it may deserve, so you will have to settle for some news briefs.· Dorchester Scene of More Celeb Craziness: Angelina Jolie nearly left her $1.6 million...
February 10, 2009
Hotel News Briefs :: Wanna Stay Someplace Deadly?
There's tons of hotel news flying around this week and we don't have time to give each and every story the love and attention it may deserve, so you will have to settle for some news briefs.· Deadly Hotels: Concierge goes grisly for their Halloween Hotel special, rounding up the...
October 14, 2008
What's With All the Celeb Meltdowns at The Dorchester?
Alright, we're stumped. Can somebody please tell us what it is about London's Dorchester that makes every celeb that walks through its doors have some sort of meltdown? Is it just too posh? Allow us to refresh your memory. First, Uma Thurman and Daryl Hannah had some offscreen tension...
July 22, 2008
Memo to Oprah :: Swipe Dorchester Spa Slippers Next Time
Oprah Winfrey, the queen of our afternoons (and owner of our souls), was all dressed up and looking radiant at a London fundraiser for Nelson Mandela last night. And then, in a stunning display of normal-ness, she took off her designer heels because her feet were killing her. We do...
June 26, 2008
Michael Madsen Mistakes The Dorchester for a Tarantino Movie Set
Whoops -- seems like someone went a little cray-cray at The Dorchester in London this past Sunday. Those poor Dorchester employees seriously can't catch a break with this steady stream of obnoxious celebrity guests... Michael Madsen was hospitalized with cuts a bruises after making a big ruckus in his...
June 10, 2008
Barbra Streisand Not Winning 'Best Hotel Guest' Award Anytime Soon
This is London has a bit of an expose about Barbra Streisand's crazy hotel demands. Some of her "victims" include: · The Castletown House: Babs demanded "peach-coloured toilet roll to match her complexion, and rose petals in the toilet bowl. One hundred-and-twenty designer bathroom towels also in peach. Ten highly...
July 20, 2007
Pricey Raspberries at the Dorchester Hotel
A couple of years back, London's Dorchester Hotel was the place to be seen--celebs galore trooped through the door and we even think that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston split up there. But more recently it was the calling point for the UK Times newspaper's mystery guest, Cath Urquhart, who...
April 23, 2007
Jacko Dresses Up Like Mickey Mouse At The Dorchester
According to extremely credible sources (read: a couple of web sites), Michael Jackson, who is now in residence at London's Dorchester Hotel, scared the hell out of a chambermaid when he answered the door dressed in a giant Mickey Mouse costume. An insider said: "The chambermaid went to collect...
October 17, 2005
Jacko at Posh UK Hotel on Business.
Looks like Michael Jackson has left the Burj for the posh confines of the Dorchester Hotel in London. Perhaps he will be keeping tabs on the lads from his luxe room. Seeing as he is staying at one of the fanciest hotels in the world, he probably won't agree...
October 10, 2005
Jennifer Aniston: London Calling
Jennifer Aniston is going nuts. Seeing your estranged husband bounce from luxury hotel to luxury hotel with an admitted lover of hotel sex has to effect your mood, at least on some level. It seems in order to deal with her despair Jennifer has made two decisions: Change her...
June 01, 2005
BMF Sits Down For An Interview At The Dorchester
UK Blogger Matt Adrock interviews Samuel L. Jackson at the legendary Dorchester hotel in London. Glad that the Dorchester is moving on from this whole debacle. Matt should have asked the BMF what the Dorchester E-butlers did for him. For the makers of The Lord of the Rings trilogy,...
February 23, 2005
The Pitts Call It Quits At The Dorchester Hotel
According to Australian news sources, and we all know the Australians are very trusting blokes, Jennifer Aniston dumped Brad Pitt last month at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Jen was staying at the hotel while filming Derailed. Brad was visiting his wife. She wants to be an A-lister he...
January 10, 2005
Kill Bill Volume 3 @ the Dorchester Hotel in London?
The Daily Star (a British Mag), is reporting that Uma Thurman and Daryl Hannah reportedly asked to be kept far apart while staying at the Dorchester Hotel in London for the premiere of "Kill Bill Vol. 2". Go get 'em girls. Looks like the on screen venom between these...
April 26, 2004
Partner Reviews: The Dorchester Hotel
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Best massage! -
Eat dinner at the magnificent posh steak restaurant "cut at 45 park lane" part of the Dorchester hotel... just live the magic of the tastes and indulge all your five senses... -
Afternoon tea at the Dorchester, a must have !!! But then again shrimp salad or burger is something you should not leave without trying!! Don't forget your "Kelly" and fur coat :))
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Afternoon tea at the Dorchester is an otherworldly experience -
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Try their afternoon tea with cheese & chutney .. Amazing -
Chicken club sandwich is just amazing! So simple, tender and delicious! A real masterpiece! -
The rooms look like Laura Ashley exploded everywhere. If you want something more contemporary, look at the Metropolitan or Park Lane Hilton -
Es el hotel del dÃÂa en CNTraveler. Tiene un estilo totalmente ‘British’ y situado en el corazón de Londres, define su filosofÃÂa como una mezcla de estilo art decó y funcionalidad. http://goo.gl/VOYN1 -
Love this hotel! Our steakhouse CUT is opening soon!! -
This is another celeb hot spot, anyone who is anyone stays here when they have a premiere to attend! -
best ever jean & tonik with george osborne -
Superb. Always expect an african head of state at the 8th floor
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A great London tradition. Tea at the Dorchester then a black cab ride home -
Parking lots never short of exotic cars. Afternoon tea at the Dorchester is a must. -
The Dorchester is on the shortlist for London Hotel of the Year! Cast your votes at www.londonlifestyleawards.com -
Come for the best afternoon tea at the Promenade -
Whoooa place!
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Club Sandwich at the restaurant is easily the best club sandwich in the world. Bold statement - but 100% true. -
Good coffee
