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Posted in Europe, Hotel, London, United Kingdom on Feb 14th, 2009
Room #3 in the High Road House. The bed is fantastic. The shower is a dream –
and that’s the ‘problem’ – it lacks the bathtub that is standard equipment in a few
of the rooms. My excuses for the shitty picture quality – I used my mobile to snap this shot
I wasn’t too thrilled to stay in […]
Posted in Europe, Hotel, London, United Kingdom on Feb 11th, 2009
The Rookery trades on its history. Check the year painted on the tiny sign above the not so grand entrance.
View from the ‘Joseph Smith’ room. See the cow? This place is located on 6-8 Cowcross Street
in Clerkenwell, close to the Smithfield Market where meat has been traded for over 800 years,
There’s a meat market nearby.
The […]
Posted in Europe, Hotel, London, United Kingdom on Dec 1st, 2008
The outside is 1864. The inside is 2000. And the experience is… quite nice!
Like if the Guggenheim in NYC was shrink-wrapped into a Victorian building? Yes, sort of.
Rooms at the Andaz are full of smart stuff, like the minibar/wardrobe/storage compartment behind those grey doors. But still it’s almost as if you can smell the Hyatt […]
Posted in Europe, Hotel, London, United Kingdom on Nov 30th, 2007
On the inside it shifted from wallpaper manufacturer HQ to design hotel. On the outside
its modernist 1958 looks will stay the same. The façade is on the national heritage list.
Typical PR lingo used to describe the Sanderson and in its lobby in particular: ”…a surreal
Cocteau-like dreamworld with a lushly landscaped interior courtyard garden”. Or something.
Note: […]
Posted in Europe, Hotel, London, United Kingdom on Nov 30th, 2007
A few years ago I used to go to London quite often…
I was then told about a hotel that soon would open and we would soon see the end of all other hotels. Late in 1999 this hotel opened its doors and yes, it quickly became the talk of the town, fat of the […]
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