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New trends in hotels set to roll on in 2012.
Dean Street Townhouse provides toiletries from its Cowshed range Check in kiosks at YOTEL: will more hotels adopt these as a queue-reducing device? Electronic check-in and check-out. While YOTEL is...
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Suites rule the luxury hotel landscape.
Many luxury travellers are willing to pay premium prices for a unique experience at one of the royal-themed suites at The Rubens (this one is clearly dedicated to Henry VIII!) For many of us a room in...
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Free WiFi touchdown: 14 hotels in a month!
According to a survey of 53,000 travellers, free WiFi is the most desired hotel amenity and a make-it or break-it factor in bookings – why then do so many expensive hotels charge extra for it? London...
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Free WiFi touchdown: the best tweets.
London Hotels Insight continues to put pressure on luxury hotels to stop hijacking their guests for extra WiFi charges. We list some of the best recent #freeWiFi tweets below. London Hotels Insight’s...
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Top 10 London hotel afternoon teas.
We present our ultimate Top 10 Afternoon Tea List based on finalists picked by the UK Tea Guild, our own research and lots of personal visits – lucky us! Note: the article below was published in 2012....
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Top 10 most expensive London hotels: are they worth it?
Budget backpackers, business travellers and luxury seekers are all catered for in the UK capital, with something to suit all tastes, particularly with new London hotels springing up all the time. But...
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Top 10 favourite London hotel Flickr photos.
Here at London Hotels Insight, we have an ever growing collection of photographs of hotels that we’re adding all the time to our Flickr account, all of which we’ve personally visited. From beautiful...
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Lady Gaga changes her favourite London hotel.
If you were Lady Gaga, which hotel would you choose for your stay in London? Apparently it’s no longer The Lanesborough. Once known for being Lady Gaga’s favourite London hotel, it appears it is now...
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Hotels find new ways to distribute concierge info.
We all know that a good concierge is a mine of information on the local area – what’s on, what’s hot and what’s not. But concierges aren’t naturally scalable; they’re human, and one concierge doesn’t...
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Top 5 ultimate luxury Christmas hotel packages.
Christmas is a time for indulging in life’s little (and not so little) luxuries, and London is a fabulous city in which to enjoy them. From the twinkling Christmas lights of Oxford Street and Hyde...
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Cigars and cocktails in perfect harmony at The Lanesborough.
Forget cigars and whisky; at the ultra-deluxe Lanesborough it’s all about pairing cigars with cocktails! The hotel’s luxurious cigar bar the Garden Room is offering a brand new menu of six cocktails...
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How a small luxury hotel can compete and thrive.
I recently met Mohamed Jajbhay, Revenue Director at the tiny Beaufort Hotel – a family-run business founded by his mother and father who apparently still exert a close influence just like proud...
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Apsleys at The Lanesborough: a symphony.
We recently sampled the 5 course tasting menu at Apsleys by Heinz Beck at The Lanesborough, the fastest London restaurant to have gained a Michelin star soon after its opening back in September 2009....
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Take a piece of The Lanesborough home with you!
One of our favourite London hotels, the suave and sophisticated Lanesborough featured extensively on this blog, is being closed for refurbishment. What’s more, they’re auctioning off furniture room...
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London boutique hotels roundup – November 2013.
It’s that time of year again when everyone’s frantically buying Christmas presents and making plans for the festive period. London’s boutique hotels meanwhile are gearing up for December, and will no...
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10 London hotel trends for 2014.
2014 doesn’t look much different from 2013, yet! The weather is still miserable, everyone complains about Facebook without there being any alternative to using it, and free WiFi still hasn’t become...
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London boutique hotels roundup – November 2014.
As Christmas shoppers from around the UK and beyond descend on Oxford Street and Regent Street in their millions, London’s boutique hotels are bracing themselves for a bumper Christmas. Here we take a...
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London boutique hotels roundup – December 2014.
So Christmas is over for another year and a new year is just beginning. 2014 was an exciting year on London’s boutique hotel scene, and 2015 looks like it will be another cracker with new openings,...
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New London hotels on the scene in 2015.
We might all wish sometimes that time would stop for a moment, but another new year is inevitably upon us and there’s no stopping it. But a new year is a time for new beginnings and there are...
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Top 10 new London hotel openings in 2015.
2014 saw some big London hotel launches, from the unintentionally voyeuristic high-altitude windows at the Shangri La at The Shard, to Andre Balazs’ ultra-exclusive celeb-laden Chiltern Firehouse in...
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