Detailed Review
Covent Garden Hotel is situated in the heart of theatreland, and is just a short walk to the Royal Opera House, Soho, and the city's business centre. The hotel is surrounded by 21 theatres and London's best restaurants, bars, clubs and shops. The hotel combines dramatically decorated interiors, superb service and the best that modern design and technology has to offer. Weekend rates include a 20 minute complimentary "acu-presssure massage"!
Press Quotes
"The drama doesn't stop with the decor; this hotel's theatrical appeal would gladden any luvvie's heart." Independent 06
Independent Reviews
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"Kit Kemp's Covent Garden boutique hotel is both chic and dramatic, with a fantastic location in the heart of theatreland."
The Covent Garden Hotel
By The TI Review Team
Rebecca Stumpf writes:
Confident, theatrical, and winsome, the Covent Garden Hotel is a layer cake whose quality ingredients come from the vibrant neighborhood of which it is a part – London’s theatreland and the former French district.
Once a French hospital, owners and designers Tim and Kit Kemp have converted the former wards into richly papered halls leading to rooms that have a romantic garret quality (especially those with large windows overlooking the area’s rooftops). The hotel also has flair, from the curtains that part in front of the check-in desk to the marble staircase leading up to the first floor drawing room. Indeed, sometimes the Kemps are a little too good at visually satisfying our whims, leaving one with a mean longing for any display of awkwardness. Of course, at this location and price it’s well that the Covent Garden is at the top of her game – the clientele demand it.
Kit Kemp’s incredible eye for tapestry and texture shows in all her hotels, and the obsessive attention to the interplay of these mediums gives the Covent Garden a particular sense of artistry. Also at play are more quiet features, such as Kit’s signature curtained bed heads, the laid-back blend of antique and modern furniture with the occasional quirky spin, and functional bathrooms of granite and mahogany. And when you’re ready to see and be seen? There’s the ground floor ‘Brasserie Max’ and the neighborhood itself, with its peppering of French patisseries, boutique shopping and of course some of the best theatre in the world.
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