Opulent antique-filled Victorian luxury boutique townhouse
The Gore hotel is ideally positioned on a leafy road steps from the Royal Albert Hall and a short walk from Kensington Palace, Hyde Park, the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Harrods and the chic designer boutiques of Knightsbridge. It is also just minutes away by tube or taxi from the West End and theatreland.
The sister hotel to the Hazlitt’s , Rookery and the Pelham, the Gore has undergone a £2.5 million ($5 million) revamp to make it one of the most desirable luxury boutique hotels in London’s South Kensington and Knightsbridge areas.
Housed in a couple of Victorian townhouse steps from Hyde Park, the Gore Hotel is a classy English luxury hotel with loads of character and little eccentricities.
The 50 individually decorated rooms skillfully blend old world charm with modern conveniences. Along with complimentary Wi-Fi and flat-screen televisions, each enchanting room boasts period pieces from the ornate 18th-century four-poster beds and Persian rugs to the buttoned leather sofas and Victorian claw foot tubs.
Bistro 190 Queen\'s Gate is the extremely popular Franco-Italian hotel restaurant that is winning critical acclaim, while BAR 190 is the sexy walnut and mahogany-panelled Art Deco bar that attracts a mixture of fascinating celebrities from the worlds of film, television, fashion, publishing and advertising.
For a decadent weekend, book one of the deluxe rooms named and decorated in a style befitting the extravagant personalities of their one-time occupants.
The Tudor Room or the Judy Garland Room with its gilt-wood bed
High Street Kensington (Circle and District lines)
