Best Hotels in London

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The first ever hotel in London has been opened in 1837 by James Brown, a personal butler of Lord Byron, who invented the idea of a comfortable place for gentlemen who happened occassionaly to visit London. Sooner other picked up the idea, and some of Gregorian houses were changed into the posh guest houses, with many of the rooms rented permanently by aristocracy, thus became more the 'Genteman's clubs' than the hotels we get used to today. Still the best hotels in London are these with 'the proper' tradition, but recently there were many of modern, but top standard premises build by the new chains like Jumeirah, or Four Seasons.

Brown's

If you are the lucky person to be able to book a room here, on the question which hotel you were staying in London you proudly answer - I did not stay at a hotel, I stayed at Brown's.
The famous guests include honeymooning Theodore Roosevelt, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen King and Agatha Christie, who placed the action of one of her criminal novels at Brown's.
To get the Victorian mood ( not necessary a killing one ) you visit the famous Tea Room and enjoy decadent afternoon.
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Ritz

Another landmark of London. Created by the same architects, who designed also classic transatlantics some hundred years ago. Prepare for a 'Titanic' experience, yet on the stable ground. If you didn't drink an afternoon tea at Browns, try Ritz, it is another insitution in old good London.

One Aldwych

Again the old building, a site on the British Heritage list, but this time furbished following the modern design, elegant but less elaborated than Titanic style, more suitable for temporary needs of a modern traveller. The hotel is surrounded by all classic theatres of London.

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Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park

It i hard to imagine better location in London, less than a mile from Buckingham Palace, not far from Notting Hill, and with Harrods mall round the corner. Mandarin Oriental is the new chain of hotels, but the building itself is over a hunderad years old, and witnessed all members of Royal Family, who used to drop here on the occassion of charity balls, or just after polo tea party.

Four Seasons Canary Wharf

Canary Wharf is a good symbol of impressive changes made to the abandoned area of empty docks. Today the new business center of London, a rival to old City, gathers some highests European skyscrapers. The modern hotel Four Seasons is outside of the historical center, but the fast motorboats on the river Thames take you to the Tower of London within about twenty minutes.

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