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Rooms Are Going For £1 at the Hoxton Hotel Again
| July 1, 2009 at 9:30 AM | 0 Comments
It’s back again: the trendsters Hoxton Hotel are throwing another one of their famous £1 sales (yes, really, a room for just £1, all in).
The sale starts tomorrow at 12pm UK time (i.e. 7:00 a.m. EDT). There are 1000 bedrooms going cheap, for stays between August 1st and October 31st, 2009. 500 of them are going for £1, and 500 for £29.
You’ll have to get to it quickly, though. Last time, all rooms went within 11 minutes and we weren't quick enough to snag one for ourselves. If you’re unlucky, the best deal you’ll get is a weekend rate in July for £96.89. Better start working them fingers, no?
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Hitting the Andaz Summer Garden Might Get You a Love Match
| June 29, 2009 at 3:23 PM | 0 Comments
Calling all outdoor-phobic/allergy-ridden/lazy people! London may have just officially entered a heatwave this week, but you don’t need to go outside to enjoy the, um, outside. Because the Andaz opened its “Summer Garden” on Friday.
The Summer Garden is just that – a garden for summer. They’ve taken the huge atrium in the hotel (rising from the first floor up (or second, to Americans), and added fake grass, fake flowers and silk butterflies to all that natural sunlight flooding in. Even more importantly, they’ve thrown in a huge TV and a bar. Which means you can drink al fresco while watching Wimbledon/the Ashes/your favourite TV soap without having your style cramped by grass stains and toilet rushes, all summer long. Perfect.
The Garden opened Friday night with screenings of Wimbledon and a singles night. We were there (as the jerky video will show you, the drinks were free-flowing).
As for ourselves, we were too busy grappling with the Pimm’s to attempt making any singles moves, but of those that did (150 of them turned up, plus 100 hangers on), five couples declared a love match and were promptly swept downstairs for dinner/drinks on the house. Rumour even has it that one couple were so blown away by the garden/Pimm’s/each other that they decided to take a room then and there. Modern romance eh? Next time we have a hot date, we’re so going to take them to the Summer Garden.
[Front Door Photo: Marianne Taylor]
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The UK's Best Mojito Is At the May Fair (And Here's the Recipe)
| June 26, 2009 at 3:31 PM | 0 Comments
We've kicked off our Summer Cocktails series with not one but two new recipes! Enjoy and @reply us when you're wasted!
At a competition in Cuba recently (yes, we're not sure where Cuba comes into play here), the May Fair in London's mixologist Marios Elias presented the May Fair's signature mojito — and it was recognized as the best mojito in the UK. Again, we dunno why they had to go all the way to Cuba to determine that, but a good cocktail is a good cocktail, we suppose.
The May Fair has released a tutorial detailing the steps to making this famed libation here (actually, this supposedly has instructions that guide you through adding everything except one "secret ingredient").
Oh, and also: here is the recipe. Hell, it's almost July. It's officially mojito season, no?
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Can't Get Stateside For Independence Day? Just Hit The Stafford
| June 26, 2009 at 11:07 AM | 1 Comment
It’s a little-admitted fact that most non-Yanks secretly want to be Yanks. But guys, it’s time to come out of the closet. Especially if you’re in London: the Obamas have been assiduous in their visits to us, the rising pound is bringing back our love for America, and the 4th of July is nearly here.
But if you have neither time, money, nor inclination to head Stateside for the celebrations, you could head for Mayfair instead, where the usually-genteel Stafford is shedding its stiff upper lip and going American for the day.
Mainly foodwise, though: they’ll be laying on an all day Independence Day menu with burgers, hot dogs, cheesecake and BBQ chicken. And it’s not only nosh; the appropriately named American Bar will be shaking up such concoctions as Patriotinis and Fourth of July Fizzes. Who cares about the lack of fireworks? Just make sure you’re wearing your jackets, guys – it’s still England, after all.
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The Dorchester London Hosts A Tea Party In British Airways' Skies
| June 26, 2009 at 9:11 AM | 0 Comments
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, which is now extending its famous tea service up into the skies.
Beginning in August, The Dorchester's complete formal afternoon tea with champagne will be found on the traytables of First Class seats on transatlantic flights with British Airways. The airline originally began serving tea in the 1940s on its Stratocruiser plane, but then that baby took twenty hours to cross the ocean, so tea was definitely in order. These days, when flights are less than 7 hours on the same route, only those paying through the nose for First Class get to enjoy the dainty cakes. Back on the ground, the same champagne tea can be had at the hotel for 47 GBP ($77) per person.
[Photo: lady_helena]
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Inside London's Zetter Hotel
| June 24, 2009 at 3:27 PM | 1 Comment
Check In @ the Zetter Hotel
London is a slog. Getting from LHR to anywhere in London is arduous. Hiring a cab was the poison we chose, and almost an hour and a half after leaving Heathrow we arrived in the tiny, classic Euro Zetter lobby — oh, and it was only 9 AM local time. At this point, we were practically begging for a room at any point before the designated 2PM check-in. The Zet staff, sensing jet lag grogginess grabbed our bags, pointed us to a coffee shop and suggested returning in an hour's time to see about room availability. Sure enough, and hour later we were caffeinated and checked into room 309, which overlooked St. John's Square in the back of the hotel.
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Get Dad 'Manned' Up At St James's Hotel & Club
| June 18, 2009 at 1:20 PM | 0 Comments
Stuck for Father’s Day gifts for a dad who likes to think of himself as a bit more intellek-shall than one who might want to receive a six pack or the latest Meat Loaf album?
May we suggest a ”traditional grooming experience” courtesy of the St James’s Hotel & Club? Book him a room (lucky mum will like you for that too) in June, July or August, and the hotel will throw in a free treatment at Truefitt & Hill, a 200-year-old barber shop just round the corner from the hotel where the royals like to go. There, they’ll have a ”traditional hot towel wet shave, haircut, shampoo and manicure”. So mother will like you even more.
The package costs £290 for the two of them. Pricey, yes; but he’ll also get to pretend he’s Samuel L Jackson. And that’s priceless.
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The Lanesborough Offers Complimentary In-Room Laptops
| June 15, 2009 at 9:27 AM | 0 Comments
PC people, rejoice: we know we've sort of got it bad for iMacs in hotels (yeah, yeah, we know; we're those Mac people), but now we've got hot news for the PC folks who get psyched when they hear the Windows startup sound: The Lanesborough (a St. Regis Hotel in London) has announced that they're placing Sony VAIO Laptops in all guestrooms, and they're free for guests to use.
According to the press release, there are actually other hotels in London that "charge as much as £200 for Laptop rentals" (um, ew), but The Lanesborough is fo' sho' the first London hotel to give them to you for free.
Oh, and yes: WiFi is also free (woulda been a pretty lame-o sneaky trick if it wasn't, huh?)
Room rates at the Lanesborough start at £355, or $582. Other free amenity goodies included with that room rate: unlimited movies on demand, fresh fruit and mineral water, tea and coffee on arrival and with wake-up calls, and a "digital music library with extensive playlist."
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The HotelChatter Diva Tracker: Mariah, Beyonce and Madge
| June 12, 2009 at 10:17 AM | 0 Comments
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 its public sexytime craziness — and, oh, wait, this just in: rumor has it she's there right now.
The Stan D'Arde Twitter spread some hot goss on the Internet this morning: "Madonna is @StandardNY. Shhhhhhh." Yes, yes. We'll be quiet about it when we're skulking around the High Line this evening.
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Skip the Minibar, Hit the Bar Late at the InterContinental Park Lane
| June 12, 2009 at 9:34 AM | 0 Comments
You know when you’ve been out late somewhere, and you get back to your hotel wanting one more before you go to bed, but you don’t want it to come from a minibar because it’s way too expensive (and also a bit depressing)?
The Intercontinental Park Lane hears you. Its bar used to be open till one a.m. on weekdays and midnight on Sundays, and although we have some extremely happy memories of drinking there with the Miami Dolphins when they were in town, it was a bit too hotel lobby-like to have a proper atmosphere.
So we were intrigued to hear today that on Tuesday, the hotel will open what it calls its Late Lounge. For a start, it’s open seven nights a week till three a.m., which should do just fine for most people. And they’ve jazzed up the old bar space: there used to be the bar area, then a ramshackle cluster of chairs in what felt like a room next door, backing onto the corridor; now there will be floor-to-ceiling curtains to snuggle you away from the corridor, extra seating (on velvet chairs, no less), waitress service and a DJ.
There’s a new menu, too, although that won’t be perusable till next week. Sounds promising though. Now all we need is a repeat visit from the Dolphins, please.
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Lindsay Lohan Skips The May Fair and Heads for Blakes Hotel
| June 8, 2009 at 3:07 PM | 0 Comments
When Lindsay Lohan checked into the May Fair hotel for her current stay in London, we felt a bit miffed. Mainly because we’ve had a bit of a downer on the hotel since we read last week that it’s letting superbrat Peaches Geldof stay there for a fraction of its normal £330-a-night cost, and throwing free food and booze at her while she’s at it.
Because she’s a name worth having? Hardly. Somehow, she’s wormed her way onto their “ambassador scheme”, which doles out the perks on the basis that she plugs them and their ”ludicrously comfy beds” wherever possible.
Seeing as LiLo is in a different celeb stratosphere to Peaches, it irked us that she was staying there while the place was tainted by the Geldof numbskull. So we were very pleased to see that, according to thelondonpaper*, Lindsay has twice in the past week skipped the May Fair for Blakes Hotel in Kensington, which has been playing host to her ladylove.
Don’t blame her. Although let’s hope LiLo isn’t on the ambassador scheme too – the May Fair might not be getting their money’s worth if she is…
[Photo: This Is London]
*Julia Buckley is also an editor at the london paper.
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Holiday Inn Declared Official Hotel of the 2012 Olympics
| June 5, 2009 at 1:30 PM | 0 Comments
Remember how we told you that What The World Needs Now is a Giant Budget Hotel? Well, someone may have read that post (or, um, agreed with our sentiments and wisely suggested that maybe an ultra-luxe, spendy-spendy chain was not the way to go with the world's economy lookin' like it's been lookin' lately) and has declared wallet-friendly chain Holiday Inn to be the official hotel of the 2012 Olympics.
According to Conference and Incentive Travel:
Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express have been named as the official hotel services providers to London 2012 by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). The Intercontinental Hotels Group-owned Holiday Inn brand will supply team members to work with LOCOG's accommodation and protocol teams in the lead up to the Games in 2012.
The brand is apparently "currently undergoing a £600m global relaunch" (a big ol' rebranding effort) and the Games will be, needless to say, some fab brand exposure — and a wise decision in this economic climate.
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