Hotels in London

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This article describes hotels in London, England .

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Before the 19th century there were several major hotels in London. British landowners often live in London for part of the year but usually they rent a house, if the family does not own their own townhouse. The number of business and foreign visitors is very small by modern standards, before the Industrial Revolution. Accommodations available to them include male club accommodation, lodging houses and training lodgings. The inn is more like a private house with rooms to leave than a commercial hotel, and often run by widows. The guesthouse coaching serves passengers from the stage trainers who were the main means of long-distance passenger transport before the railways began to flourish in the 1830s. The last galleried coaching inn in London is the George Inn, which now belongs to the National Trust.

Some hotels of more modern varieties began to be built in the early 19th century. For example, Mivart's, the predecessor of Claridge's, opened its doors in 1812 but, until the mid-19th century, hotels in London were generally small. In his travel book North America (1862), novelist Anthony Trollope commented on how many American hotels are larger than British hotels. But at the moment the train is already starting to bring more short-term visitors to London, and the rail company itself leads in accommodating them by building a series of "railroad hotels" near their London terminal. These buildings were seen as a status symbol by the railroad company, the largest business in the country at the time, and some of them were magnificent. They include:

• The Great Western Hotel in Paddington (now Hilton London Paddington and first railroad hotel in England, built in 1854)
• Midland Grand Hotel in St. John's Pancras (closed from 1935-2011, now St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel.)
• The Great Northern Hotel in King's Cross (recently refurbished as a boutique hotel)
• The Great Eastern Hotel on Liverpool Street (Now Andaz Liverpool Street London Hotel)
• The Charing Cross Hotel at Charing Cross station
• The Great Central Hotel in Marylebone (now The Landmark London)
• The Grosvenor Hotel in Victoria

Many other large hotels were built in London in the Victorian period. The Westminster Palace Hotel (1858), named after its neighboring Westminster Palace, the Parliament, is the location of many political meetings. The Langham Hotel was the largest in the city when it opened in 1865. The Savoy, perhaps the most famous hotel in London, opened in 1889, the first London hotel with an en-suite bathroom for each room. Nine years later, Claridge was rebuilt in its present form. Another famous hotel, The Ritz, based on a more famous name in Paris, opened in 1906.

The upper end of the London hotel business continued to grow between the two World Wars, driven by the fact that many landlord families were no longer able to defend London homes and therefore began to stay in hotels, and by more and more foreigners, especially Americans. Famous hotels that open its doors in this era include Grosvenor House Hotel and Dorchester.

The level of hotel construction in London was quite low in a quarter of a century after World War II and the famous old names retained their dominance from the top end of the market. The most famous hotel in this era is probably the Hilton London, a controversial concrete tower overlooking Hyde Park. Advances in air travel increased the number of visitors from abroad to London from 1.6 million in 1963 to 6 million in 1974. To provide hotels to meet additional demand, the Hotel Development Incentive Scheme was introduced and a building boom took place. This led to overcapacity in the London hotel market from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. The construction then picked up again, but it was soon constrained by the recession of the early 1990s and a reduction in international travel caused by the 1991 Gulf War.

The 1980s saw London (along with New York) embark on the trend of smaller boutique-style hotels. In the mid-1990s many new hotels opened, including various types of house-style hotels in Victorian houses to a very trendy minimalist building. At this time some of London's grandest office buildings in the 20th century were converted into hotels because of its layout, with long corridors and many separate offices, not in accordance with preferences for working with open plans, but their registered status made it difficult to get permission to destroy it. This period also saw the opening of the first five-star hotel in London south of the Thames River, Marriott County Hall Hotel, and the first two in East London, Four Seasons Canary Wharf and Marriott West India Quay, which is also close to Canary Wharf development. For years there were no hotels at all in the City of London although City's finance companies were one of the most lucrative sources of the London hotel sector. But in recent years more than a thousand hotel rooms have opened in the City. Cheap hotel chains like Travel Inn and Travelodge have also grown rapidly in London since the mid-1990s.

One of the most expensive hotels in London is The Lanesborough. Originally a private address (Lanesborough House), in 1733 was transformed into St George's Hospital, and started life as a hotel in 1991.

Maps Hotels in London

Modern London hotels

There is no official hotel room registration in London, but the approximate number of hotel rooms in Greater London in 2010 is 123,000. As in major tourist cities around the world, the hotel market has been plagued by AirBnB and similar online markets. According to figures generated to support the London 2012 Olympic bid, there were more than 70,000 three- to five-star hotel rooms within 10 kilometers of London Center in 2003. Interestingly, major growth was a large increase in the number of rooms within the City of London. , while Kensington and Chelsea really suffered a small fall. It compares the numbers since 1981. The main concentration of luxury hotels is in the West End, especially in Mayfair and Soho. Five star hotel in London is quite small by international standards. The largest, Grosvenor House Hotel, has only 494 rooms, and eighteen of them have fifty or fewer. The range is very wide, including:

• Traditionally built luxury hotels such as the Ritz, the Savoy and the Dorchester.
• Recent conversion of the late 19 th and early 20th century office buildings to hotels such as One Aldwych and the Renaissance Chancery Court.
• Hotel Townhouse.
• Modern built-in networking hotel.
• Modern designer boutique hotel.

List of Five Star Hotels in London

There is no official body assessing the hotel. The most widely accepted body is the AA (in the past RAC as well) and the British Tourist Board. ETB has recently changed their criteria to conform with AA to provide consistency. Many hotels still rated themselves.

Other well known hotels

• One of the more unusual hotels is Sunborn London, a floating hotel by the Excel center of East London and specially built as a stationary floating hotel (lacking machines). The original yacht was sold to the Lagos government and has now been replaced with a larger yacht in the same place.
• 3 Star Hotels 1,530 Royal National Hotel in Bloomsbury is the largest hotel in the UK with number of rooms, with 1,271.
• The Hilton London Metropole Hotel in Paddington is the largest 4-star hotel in London and England. It has 1,058 bedrooms and extensive conference facilities.
• The Russell Hotel at Russell Square, Bloomsbury, dating from 1898, has one of the grandest exteriors of any London hotel, but is rated 4-star.
• The Guoman Tower Hotel (formerly Thistle) near Tower Bridge is one of London's largest hotels with over 800 rooms, and considered by some to be one of the ugliest - it was twice elected the second ugliest building in London , in the 2005 poll of Time Out , and in a 2006 BBC poll - and the least-located brutal buildings in the city. Yet others find its location by St. Katharine Docks and the Tower of London as quite relaxed and beautiful.
• In 2005, planning permission was granted for the construction of a new hotel at St Pancras train station. It will combine parts of the previous Midland Grand Hotel, perhaps the most spectacular hotel building ever built in London, operating from 1873 to 1935.
• The Regent Palace Hotel, located on the northern side of Piccadilly Circus, closed in December 2006. Famous as Europe's largest hotel in terms of room number (1028) when it opened on May 16, 1915.
• The largest floating hotel in the world will arrive in London in 2012.

Events

After plot transatlantic plane 2006 London hotels showed a decrease in average growth of room rates and growth of occupancy. But this is not as sharp as expected as the figures are compared with previous years' figures that were also affected by the July 7 London bombing of 2005. It is estimated that without that situation, a noticeable decline will occur in the region of 20-30%. Surprisingly, while figures indicate a decrease in bookings of several major chains such as the Intercontinental reported strong demand for hotel rooms in London as passengers became stranded in London unable to get flights.

In November 2006, several hotels were subjected to radiation checks after former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with Polonium-210. The most severely affected was the Millennium Mayfair where 7 staff members were found to be contaminated with low-level radiation.

November 2006 is also the month Dhiren Barot was sentenced by a British court to serve at least 40 years in prison for planning to cause an explosion at the London Hotel among a list of targets which also included the New York Stock Exchange and the World Bank.

January 2007 saw the first use anywhere in the world of Cryonite technology to kill bedbugs (freeze pests using the patented carbon dioxide snow) at the upper London Hotel (unnamed).

In February 2010, a murder took place at the Landmark Hotel, one of London's most expensive hotels.

November 2014, a gas explosion caused 14 injuries at the luxurious Hyatt Regency Churchill Hotel

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Fact

In March 2007, the Westminster board released a report that said several well-known hotels in London had been considered "serious health hazards" by environmental reviewers in previous years. The hotels are Savoy, Halkin, Langham, and Dorchester. The Langham received confirmation from the Westminster Council that "everything was in good shape" in May 2006, and Dorchester disinfected their air conditioning system in response to the legionella bacteria found in the bedroom.

In March 2011, London Hotels is the 8th most expensive hotel in the world.

In February 2015, London was said to be the most expensive city in Europe for hotel rooms judged on advertised rates.

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See also

• List of hotels - indexed by country
• List of hotels - index of hotel list articles on Wikipedia

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References

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