In case you've been living under an internet-less rock recently, the crazy-popular luxury hotel flash sale site Jetsetter.com has officially opened up for business overseas, in the UK. The new Jetsetter.co.uk mirrors the US site in style and most reviews, but offers are tailored to the English traveler. Plus...
December 19, 2011
The world knows Steve Jobs for his creation of the gadgets that have become an everyday necessity in our lives like the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. But thanks to the new biography on the Apple mastermind by Walter Isaacson, we've learned that Jobs would have also made...
October 31, 2011
The May Fair: where WiFi and celeb spots both come free of charge This week, the Sunday Times called out British hotels charging obscene rates for WiFi. Unsurprisingly, London ones were among the worst offenders, with the Mandarin Oriental charging £15 a day, the Dorchester coming in at £19.50...
December 02, 2009
We blame Andaz Liverpool Street. Since they started a reader in residence programme with the lush Damian Barr, London hotels have gone literary-tastic. Weve got book clubs, weve got poetry readings, weve even got book concierges. And, if were being honest, its getting a bit enough already. So well...
September 30, 2009
How do you go from appearing in seventies soft porn to becoming the godmother of boutique hotels? More importantly how does it take us three years to notice? Anouska Hempel, we have discussed your hotels before, but today is the first day we came across your incredibly interesting story....
January 05, 2007
The Hempel Hotel in London has had a bunch of wacky celeb guests in the past month.Kicking it off was gossip blogger Perez Hilton, who also stayed there last spring. Then Posh Spice popped in sans Katie Holmes while in town for a book signing. And now Michael Jackson has...
November 16, 2006
Celeb blogger/Hilton sister-wannabe Perez Hilton has for some reason jetted across the pond to London where he will be staying at the Hempel Hotel near Hyde Park.A very recent guest had nothing but good things to say about the large rooms and bathrooms, service and decor, turned out to be...
May 12, 2006
Room 110 at The Hempel in West London is known as the Lioness Den. Even though the 3 story suite has a caged bed suspended from the ceiling it isn't all about kisch. Here is what one who recently stepped into the Lioness Den had to say: We stayed...
July 08, 2005
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