Hotel Coverage: The Goring
What’s Out, What’s In: Your Roots Are Showing
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: Hotel-recommended city tours What’s In: Hotel-led cultural immersions Hotels are taking a lead in ensuring guests remember that...
March 21, 2013
The InterContinental London Park Lane Unveils Its Royal Suite
London's Goring Hotel may have recently received a seal of approval with its Royal Warrant (gosh, we're still having a hard time with that name), but the InterContinental London Park Lane has its own special royal nod of recognition, too. Sitting on the site of Queen Elizabeth II’s former...
January 24, 2013
Kate Middleton's Wedding Hotel Has Received a 'Royal Warrant' from the Queen
This hotel received an official "thumbs up" from the Queen. Despite our initial pause about the term "Royal Warrant", no one at The Goring Hotel in London's swank Belgravia nabe is getting arrested. Rather, the Royal Warrant decree establishes the hotel as the Royal Family's "official favorite hotel of choice."...
January 18, 2013
Here's Why You'll Want To Order Everything Off The Goring's New Bath Menu
Remember when we learned about Andaz Liverpool Street's plans to launch a World Food Marathon menu next month to coincide with the Olympics? Well, it turns out The Goring (aka Kate Middleton's hotel of choice) is preparing a 'global menu' of its own—except you'll find this menu in the bathroom,...
June 05, 2012
The Goring Gives Gatwick Airport The Kate Middleton Treatment
Last time we heard anything about The Goring, a certain Miss Middleton was staying there the night before her wedding. Since then, it’s kept pretty low key (no doubt helped by the fact that it doesn’t approve of phones or computers on its premises). But now, according to the...
February 23, 2012
How Kate Middleton Helped Sexify The Goring Hotel in London
It's no secret that the royals love The Goring Hotel in London. After all, that's where Kate Middleton spent her last night as a free woman before marrying Prince William in April. It's also where Prince Harry partied a little too hardy after the nuptials. But we can't help...
September 29, 2011
Don't Expect To Be Able To Tweet Your Royal Sightings At The Technophobic Goring
An interesting fact we learned last week – looks like Kate Middleton isn’t a geek, techie or social media addict. How do we know? Because when we rocked up to her fave hotel, The Goring, just round the corner from Buckingham Palace and where she stayed the night before...
June 15, 2011
Prince Harry and The Curious Case of The Goring Hotel Balcony Jump
Did Prince Harry jump from a balcony at The Goring Hotel the night before the Royal Wedding? The Daily Mail sure hopes thinks so, citing an anonymous source who said Prince Harry was the life of the party until 3am when he leaped off a balcony from the hotel's...
May 09, 2011
The Goring Will Officially See Plenty Royal Action Starting Tomorrow Night
You're either really into The Royal Wedding or totally not, so for those who are, we've got some exciting hotel gossip today. There's been much talk over where Kate Middleton will hold her hen party, where she'll stay before the wedding and what hotel the couple will pick for...
April 27, 2011
Will the Royal Couple Make Suite Love at The Goring?
It was rumored that Kate Middleton would be spending her last night as a free lady at The Goring and now it seems she may even spend her first night hitched there. There are rumors floating out there—indeed a little more than a rumor—that this year's most-toasted couple may...
March 08, 2011
Kate Middleton's Royal Bachelorette Party May Go Down at The Goring
Looks like princess-to-be Kate Middleton is thinking about spending her last night as a free lady at The Goring. Bachlorette party! We wonder if the royal stripper will pay her a visit on the evening before the big day. Middleton is mulling over spending the night at The Goring...
January 20, 2011
Next On Our List of London Hotel Tea Times: The Goring
Next time we're in London and looking for the best afternoon tea in town, we know where we'll try next: The Goring. We just happened to stroll past the proud facade of the stately hotel recently, and sitting as it does around the corner from Buckingham Palace, we hear...
March 04, 2010
Get Your Goose Properly Cooked Next Month At The Goring
There’s nothing like obscure traditions to liven up a hotel stay. So this one at the posh Goring in London should be fun. This September, it’s going to be serving "Michaelmas Goose"—or, to you and me, goose, because it’s Michaelmas. In days gone by, it was traditional to eat...
August 19, 2009
It's Hot Time For Tea Al Fresco At The Goring
Two weeks ago, the Met Office declared that Britain was in for a scorcher of a summer. Great for the holidaymakers among us, but for those of us who have to work through it in London, the temperatures (up to 40 degrees has been predicted) are not such welcome...
May 14, 2009
Toast the Queen at The Goring On Thursday
Not that the Brits are always ones to be patriotic, but it's St George's Day on Thursday. And while for most of us that means a day in the office as usual, the Goring Hotel in London has other ideas. And it involves stuffing our faces. Of course, if...
April 21, 2009
Poetry Corner To Open at London's Goring Hotel
We still remember last March when London’s Andaz hotel took the fabulous step of inviting a Reader in Residence to sit in his pyjamas for two weeks and read to needy guests. Now normally, we don’t like copycats, but because it was such a good idea, and the reader...
February 10, 2009
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