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The
Goring
My
favorite thing about the Goring Hotel is the
personal attention you receive. It's considered
the only privately owned 5-star hotel in
London and
you're definitely made to feel at
home.
Since
1910 the Goring family has owned the hotel since
1910, and have managed to keep up the traditional
standards of hotel management along with a
friendly and professional attitude. You're given a
warm welcome and made to feel like part of the
family when you walk through the doors. The hotel
was actually the first hotel in the world to be
equipped with private bathrooms and central
heating in every bedroom! Always ahead of the
crowd when it came to providing the best for it's
guests, the Goring today has state of the art
technology in it's spacious and comfortable
guestrooms.
The
location of the hotel is very centrally located
and is just behind
Buckingham
Palace. It
is so close to the palace in fact, that the Queen
Mother used to be a regular visitor to the hotel
often meeting her horse-racing friends here.
All
of the rooms (67 rooms and 7 suites) are
individually designed and air-conditioned. On my
recent trip to the hotel,
London hit
it's hottest day ever recorded in history and the
hotel's excellent air conditioning was my only
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The
hotel has a great restaurant called simply, the
Dining Room. It's spacious yet intimate and is
known best for it's excellent English food.
Elegantly attired waiters are attentive but don't
hover, and a lovely pianist plays softly in the
background. They serve breakfast, lunch and dinner
in the Dining Room and room service is available
24 hours a day.
There
is also a lounge just off the lobby that you can
use to relax over morning coffee and pastries or
have some warm scones and clotted cream for
afternoon tea. The lounge overlooks a beautiful
garden through lovely French doors, and a wood
burning fireplace is a warm and homey touch,
especially in winter.
I
would recommend this hotel to anyone who wants a
centrally located luxury hotel with the warm
feeling of a 'home away from home'. The staff will
definitely make you feel like you have a home in
London to
come back to. You can really tell that this hotel
has been loved and nurtured by the Goring family,
their staff and management, for nearly a century.
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