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Today's Hostile Take Over And Lawsuit Tale: Feuding Over Claridge's
Luxury hotels have a tendency to attract some scandale; if it isn’t the celebrity kind (hi Lindsay!), a good lawsuit will do. Even the Maybourne Hotel Group, a small collection of fa-fa-fancy London hotels including Claridge’s, the Connaught, and the Berkeley, isn’t immune.
The Guardian reports that the wealthy Barclays brothers are about to take control over the debt-laden group, amidst a flurry of legal battles, disputes, and general animosity. So what happened here?
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Did You Know You Can Picnic at The Berkeley's Secret Rooftop Garden?
The Berkeley is drawing people to its gym, and not for its treadmills. The Knightsbridge hotel transformed its gym and spa's terrace into a lush British countryside, complete with birch trees and lavender, in the middle of the city.
And instead of burning calories on the elliptical, you can order from a picnic menu, which includes blanket-friendly fare like iced tea and strawberries and cream, while you pop a squat on the secret rooftop garden.
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Drink Straight Up at London's Connaught Bar, Mayfair
The Connaught Hotel's acclaimed bar
This week, HotelChatter is paying special attention to London. The city of grey and rain is gearing up for yet another Fashion Week and impending royal nuptials, along with continued preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games, so our lady on the ground Heidi Atwal is guiding us through some of her favorite places.
We've frequented many a hotel bar in Londontown, from the Sanderson's Purple to the May Fair, but these swanky outfits don't seem nearly as popular among locals as a solid pub. And although we're actually with them on that, we always make an exception to the No Hotel Bar rule in the case of the Connaught Bar in Mayfair.
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Only Luxury Brands Allowed Inside The Maybourne Hotels (and Their Magazine)
iPads, be damned, we're loving our stroll through print land and our ongoing look at a dying hotel amenity--The Hotel Magazine. Sure, most hotels stock their guestrooms with the trendy magazines of the day or at least place some localized publication on the desks but there are actually a few hotels out there that still publish their own magazine. We've got our hands on a few copies of these rare breeds and we'll be documenting our finds for you here. Know of a hotel magazine we should see before it goes out of print? Send it to us!
In leafing through the Summer 2010 issue of Maybourne from the Maybourne Hotel Group (Claridge's, The Connaught and The Berkeley), we found ourselves paying special attention to the opening letter from the hotel group's CEO, Stephen Alden. But that's probably because his text was peppered with designer names like Diane Von Fursternberg, Dior and Jaguar.
Yet we also thought Alden was spot-on when he said:
