London's undeniably posh West End plays home to some of the city's most impressiveand oftentimes hoity toityhotels: 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 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
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 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
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
We really enjoyed sharing afternoon tea with Katy Perry at Claridiges last year. Ok, ok we may not have been invited by her but that didnt 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
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
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
We love the Dorchester bar and we love its cocktails even more so were 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, its a catch it while you...
September 16, 2010
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
The Polo Bar at the Westbury: scene of the crimeski. So, youre a billionaire. A Russian one, no less. Youre 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
Wannabe luxury fashion designers, listen up! The Dorchester Collection of hotelswe're talking places like Hotel Le Meurice in Paris, Principe di Savoia in Milan and Gossip Girl-favorite New York Palaceis launching a fashion prize which will award £25,000 prize ($38,000), accommodations and an event to one talented person with...
April 07, 2010
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
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
Well, The Dorchesters getting a bit racy at the moment, isnt it? If its not taking over the ex Playboy Club as its latest outpost, its jumping on the whole Sex and the City bandwagon. Not that the Dorchester would sell sex, of course in fact, its not...
March 03, 2010
The Dorchester. Playboy. Not two words youd normally associate together, but all this is about to change. Not that the Dorchester Collection is saucing up its image its merely being inclusive as it branches out. Turns out that the site for its next London hotel, 45 Park Lane,...
March 01, 2010
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
You know that famous story about Van Halen demanding M&Ms 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
You wouldnt know it was Christmas from the weather in London at the moment; youd think youd 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
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
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
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
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
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
Ah, the ever-present celeb dilemma to grow old gracefully or invest in a little nip n tuck? Well its 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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