Summer in the Garden

Come and enjoy an even longer summer at The Cranley on Bina Gardens!
Due to popular demand, we’ve extended our Summer in the Garden offer to run all the way from July 25th to September 6th.

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Special summer rate – 129 GBP for a superior double room

Rate is per room per night excluding VAT, including continental breakfast served in your room every morning, welcome drink and a glass of champagne every evening.

Want to bring the family?
We also do family rates of 308 GBP per night for a luxurious four poster room with a close twin bedded room (suitable for 5 people).

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or call Reservations on: +44 (0) 20 72441700

The Cranley is a luxurious boutique hotel close to the Kensington Palace and gardens, Kings Road, Knightsbridge, Harrods, The Natural History museum and The Royal Albert Hall. Click here to visit our BRAND NEW website.

San Domenico House

Below you will find the juicy offers and Packages that San Domenico House is offering:

Last Minute Booking
One night only, direct booking.
If you contact the Hotel directly by phone or by email, for a one night stay, after 5.00pm we will apply 20% discount on the available rooms.

Special Midweek Deal (all year 2010)
Book 2 nights (or more) and 10% discount will be applied on the normal room rates.

Special Weekend Deal (all year 2010)
Book 3 nights (from Friday to Sunday) and get Sunday free.

Honeymooners at San Domenico House
Only direct bookings – Wedding certificate is required at time of check-in.

• Upgrade on a Romantic Gallery Suite
• Gift on arrival
• Box of chocolates
• Bottle of Sparkling Wine
• Continental breakfast served in room

£ 280.00 per night (tax included)

Romantic St. Valentine at San Domenico House
Two nights stay-valid from 12th February to 16th February 2010
The package includes:

•    Accommodation in a Gallery Suite
•    Bottle of champagne with strawberries and dark chocolate
•    Continental Breakfast served in room

Total Package £ 750.00 (vat included)

In order to check the availability click here or on each promotion.

This unique package includes a 3-hour recording session, accommodation in an Executive room and full English breakfast. And why not add a bottle of Champagne for just £40? Live the life of a superstar!

Wendyhouse is a boutique recording studio just around the corner from K West. Upon your arrival, you will be provided with refreshments. After a tour of the studio, you’ll be shown into the control room where a few practice runs will be made and any questions answered. Once you’re ready, it’s time to go to the live room where you will be given a pair of cans (headphones) and perform the song. After two or three takes, you’ll be able to listen to your progress with the producer before having another final go.

The producer and engineer will then edit and master your hit record and burn copies onto CD format to be taken home and shown off to friends and family. You will then be free to indulge in some well-earned, post-session celebrations at K West’s bar or head straight to the Spa!

You will be given a backing track and lyric sheet before the session to practice with. And for just £35 you can add a 45-minute singing lesson to polish your performance!

As well as having a top producer and engineer on tap, you will have access to first rate equipment including beautiful vintage microphones and pumping ATC speakers. Check out the website www.wendyhouseproductions.com for more info including full client and equipment lists.

This once-in-a-lifetime experience is £529 for 2 people, and for just £189 per additional twin or double room, up to 12 of you can enjoy living like superstars!

E-mail bookit@k-west.co.uk or call 020 8008 6600 for more information or to book.

Stoke Place

Destined to receive many compliments of the season will be Dhillon Group’s portfolio of extraordinary properties. Suffused with period charm but with a modern twist, offering fabulous fare produced using locally sourced ingredients and boasting exemplary service, Stoke Place, The Crown Inn and The Olde Bell offer the ideal setting for any Yuletide celebration, whether it’s a festive party, Christmas Day lunch or a New Year’s Eve extravaganza.

For anyone desiring seasonal style without pretension and luxury without fuss, Stoke Place more than fits the bill. Located in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, this stunningly restored 17^th century mansion is set within 26 acres of landscaped gardens designed by the legendary Capability Brown. The archetypal rural house, its considerable charms belie its location, which is only 30 minutes from the centre of London.

A visit might begin with a glass of punch or chilled Champagne served in the elegant Drawing Room, once the formal lounge of Stoke Place. Guests could then have the option of heading off to the Vyse Room, with its relaxed, stripped-back décor, for a seasonal menu featuring the best in contemporary British food.

For a more private celebration, there are seven individually designed rooms, which can seat from 14 to 200. Or for a festive event without equal, the entire house and its 29 bedrooms are available to hire.

Christmas Day lunch is a real highlight, while Stoke Place is also the perfect place in which to see in the New Year, complete with Champagne reception, five course meal and dancing.

Meanwhile The Olde Bell in Hurley provides a wonderful backdrop for an authentically traditional festive celebration. Parts of the building date back to 1135, and the open log fires and timber beams are the epitome of a quintessential English Christmas.

Overseen by the most welcoming of innkeepers, The Olde Bell functions almost like a village in itself, with the main building for individuals or smaller parties staying overnight, dinner guests and locals and the auxiliary buildings for larger gatherings.

This flexible arrangement makes the inn ideal for any type of Christmas celebration. Inside the main building the restaurant and bar are open throughout the period for lunch, dinner and drinks, while the beautifully appointed Norman Room is available for tables of up to 12. On the opposite side of the lane is an awe-inspiring 16^th century timber-framed Tithe Barn that can seat up to 120 people.

Meanwhile, the adjacent Malt House, a gorgeous Victorian building with hints of the arts and crafts style, has five individually designed reception rooms, 14 bedrooms (including 5 suites) and its own private garden, all of which can cater for between 10 and 40 guests.

No visit to the Malt House is complete without sampling the famous Roast Goose Menu. Served in the oak panelled dining room, this gourmet’s delight includes Ballontine of Foie Gras, Brandy Prune and Brioche Toast; Roast Goose with all the Trimmings; Waterloo Cheese and Home-made Oatcakes and Prune and Almond Tart with Crème Fraîche.

When it comes to foodies, the most discerning of palates will find favour with The Olde Bell’s festive menus. Lunch is served on both Christmas Day and Boxing Day, while a gastronomic feast on New Year’s Eve helps guests bid a fond farewell to 2009.

Those who cannot tear themselves away from the delights of The Olde Bell can stay in one of the inn’s lovely bedrooms, including the suites recently refurbished by the legendary Ilse Crawford of Soho House and Babington House fame.

The final festive port of call can be found in the historic market town of Old Amersham. Here you will find The Crown Inn with its Elizabethan half-timbered frontage and classic coach yard ringed by crooked buildings and bay windows. You can almost hear those chestnuts roasting on the open fire as the innkeeper welcomes friends, family and colleagues to soak up the atmosphere.

With its open beams and inglenook fireplace, The Back Room at The Crown is a wonderful space for gatherings of up to 40 people.

Whether it’s a company Christmas party or a traditional Christmas Day or Boxing Day lunch, the inn provides locally sourced food, served simply. Light bites are also a speciality, with favourites such as fruit cake served with Cashel Blue cheese impossible to resist.

Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas Day and Boxing Day lunches and a New Year’s Eve three course feast are also available.

For guests who wish to extend their stay, The Crown Inn has 37 rooms, including a number redesigned by Ilse Crawford. All the rooms vary in size but all provide the same creature comforts of decent mattresses, pure cotton sheets and Jakob’s wool blankets.

Stoke Place, Stoke Green, Stoke Poges, Bucks, SL2 4HT

The Olde Bell, High Street, Hurley, Berks, SL6 5LX

The Crown, 16 High Street, Amersham, Bucks, HP7 0DH

For information, menus and prices, please see:

www.coachinginn.co.uk and www.stokeplace.co.uk

For further information, please contact:

Caru @ Jori White PR on 020 7734 7001

caru@joriwhitepr.co.uk

Night Boutique Hotel, New York

In the last one decade the rise of boutique hotels has made a huge impression on the hotel industry and is still making it. These boutique hotels are now operating in every major or small city whether it is New York, London, San Francisco and or any part of the world. This concept of boutique hotels basically existed from 1980s. Initially, these boutique hotels were also known as “designer” or “lifestyle” hotels. Morgan hotel of New York was the first to get this label of “boutique hotel”. Nowadays, everyone is trying to call their hotel a boutique hotel but generally, a boutique hotel is one which is comparatively smaller, and constructed with the purpose of serving their personal customers rather than others. The definition of boutique hotel as per most of the travel and tour agents and websites of this type is, it is a hotel which do not have more than 50 rooms and the aim of this hotel is to make your stay as pleasant as possible. The blast in the numbers of boutique hotels has brought confusion as more and more internal hotel owners are opening their own chain of boutique hotels. Most famous are Starwood and resorts hotels.

Zetter Boutuque Hotel, London

After the huge popularity of New York’s Morgan hotel, many boutique hotels have come into existence all across the world especially in the cities that are hotspots in terms of tourism or around them. Let’s take London as an example. Till some time back, it was very hard to find one boutique hotel there but now boutique hotels are seen in every second street and what’s more, bigger hotels are also converting themselves into a boutique hotel. These big boutique hotels are gaining more popularity there as the rents are high and small boutique hotels are not workable often. In last five years or so, many boutique hotels have gained huge popularity in London and some of them are Guest houses in Notting Hill, Baglioni Hotel and the Soho Hotel in Soho.

Montalembert Boutique Hotel

In our second example, Paris, every type of boutique hotel can promise you a big success. Probably, this is the reason why there is a huge variety and quantity of boutique hotels to choose from. One of the Paris’s oldest boutique hotels is called Montalembert and it is situated on the left bank. The hotels that have been inducted as boutique hotel very recently are Hotel De Sers situated at Avenue Pierre and Hotel Sezz located very near to Eiffel Tower.

The interesting fact about boutique hotels is that the boutique hotels of North America are slightly bigger than the boutique hotels all around the world and this is because of the fact that rents are higher there. But still the boutique hotels are very famous in America.

It is estimated that as the tourism sector will grow the hotel industry especially the boutique hotel industry will also grow and also the fact that the big hoteliers have initiated their expression of interest in boutique hotels, will help this industry flourish for many years to come.

Get the full story at www.sanfrancisco10.cityspur.com

The luxurious rugby lunch: starters of truffled cauliflower soup; or roast quail with endive tart & foie gras parfait; followed by main courses of pumpkin risotto with ceps; Scottish beef Wellington; or sea bream fillet. Desserts include a choice of British cheeses; lemon cheesecake; or Valrhona chocolate tart and a selection of teas, coffees and petit fours, followed by a pre-match whisky livener at the bar.

The kick off of the rugby lunch:
•    Saturday 7th November, (England vs. Australia)
•    Saturday 14th November (England vs. Argentina)
•    Saturday 21st November –(England vs. New Zealand)

For more information visit the Bingham website.