You can even live permanently at the newly minted Peninsula or the lavish Raffles. But can they compete with city icons like The Ritz or The Dorchester?
For anyone wanting to swing through London in style, the slate of uber-salubrious hotels has never been meagre: The Ritz, The Dorchester, The Savoy, The Langham, Claridge’s, The Connaught… the list goes on. And on.
The first is an outpost of The Peninsula, an elite and slightly eccentric chain that has been owned by Hong Kong’s Kadoorie family for well over a century. The other is a new Raffles, joining the growing stable of that opulent icon of colonial Singapore; it’s a joint project between Raffles owner Accor and a wealthy Indian-British mercantile family, the Hindujas.
If, like Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels chairman Michael Kadoorie, you are a bit of a nut for planes, trains and automobiles, then The Peninsula is the one for you.The hotel has a fleet of racing-green luxury cars at its disposal. One is a 1935 Rolls-Royce Phantom Sedanca de Ville, which reportedly took eight years and more than £1 million to restore, and requires its drivers to undertake special training.
The snacks and drinks on offer in the room are so good that you barely need to go out to dinner. But it’s worth it: both the ground-floor restaurant and cocktail bar are Cantonese-themed, and deliver as authentic an old-school Hong Kong experience as London can offer.If you do decide to stay in, you’ll probably make use of one of the things I most liked about this hotel: the valet cupboard, next to the door.
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