Detailed Review
Newly extended and redesigned, The San Domenico House enjoys a reputation for being one of the finest small hotels in London. Located in the heart of the fashionable Chelsea, The San Domenico House, with its 16 luxury bedrooms and suites, completed by an extensive room service menu, offers privacy and a personalised service for any guest wishing to enjoy comfort, relaxation and peace of mind.
Any category of room you choose, you will be guaranteed with a high standard of service and comfort completed by the last modern appointments. Our sixteen bedrooms and suites have got en suite marble bathrooms with bath and shower. The San Domenico House offers all the convenience, modern facilities, and high level of service that you would expect from a world-class hotel.
Press Quotes
"Lavishly furnished with late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century paintings and antiques, the cozy interior feels more like a quirky private home than the ubiquitous no-place of global Hotel Land." Conde Nast Traveler 06
Independent Reviews
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“Intimate and refined with eclectic touches, the beautiful townhouse conversion is tucked away on a quiet street in Chelsea.”
San Domenico House
By Angela Moore
San Domenico House (ex-the Sloane Hotel) is a new venture for the Italian family who own the Sicilian hideaway, San Domenico Palace. The hotel is in one of those beautiful red-brick townhouses toward the Sloane Square end of the Kings Road.
The hotel is in opulent, ornate Italian style. The lobby and drawing room are hung with huge oils and heavy drapes; there are standing lamps and gilded mirrors and sumptuous silk sofas ranged around fireplaces.
It is saved from showiness because every now and then there’s a quirky piece of furniture or a sense of humour in a choice of artwork. The hotel is not a designer showpiece – it has been furnished like a house, with new pieces added as they suit. There may be a lot of marble and gilt but there are also amusing little stone cherubs and painted candlesticks in the shape of elephants and Ghurkhas.
Staff is attentive and formal but not at all stiff; the front desk runs a full concierge service. Best of all for summer, there’s a roof terrace with a few pretty tables and happy views of Chelsea. It adds up to a seductive and intimate whole, somewhere special and different to spend a few days in London.
The rooms
Dramatic and voluptuous, and each unique. All the rooms are exceedingly spacious and those on the lower floors have soaring high ceilings. Superior doubles are higher in the house, with lower ceilings; Junior Suites are simply enormous and Gallery Suites are split-level.
All the rooms show great attention to detail and all are furnished with wonderful, imaginative pieces. One room has exquisite matched inlaid rosewood bedside tables and a silk-striped sofa; another has an artless pile of vintage Louis Vuitton cases at the foot of the bed. There are fabric-covered walls and paintings of coquettish Edwardian ladies. Some rooms have four-poster beds.
Beds are absolutely loaded with cushions and have charmingly old-fashioned bedspreads. Bathrooms are marble and chrome and stuffed with Molton Brown. Entertainment facilities run to broadband, DVD players and cable.
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