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The Hempel Hotel

31-35 Craven Hill Garden Hempel
Grden Sq
London, England W2 3EA
United Kingdom

 
GENERAL INFORMATION :

What to expect: Despite situated in a row of traditional white Georgian townhouses, the Hempel’s interior is an original conceptual design. The sparse dreamlike lobby features a Portland stone floor, sunken seating areas with Indonesian ox cart tables, and two wide fireplaces. Simple natural colors and a lack of signs and door handles increase the sense of tranquility. Although commonly associated with the fashion and media industries, the hotel also attracts corporate and leisure guests.

Amenity highlights: The hotel’s design concept is a blend ancient eastern influences and modern technology. An atrium provides natural light to the interior and suspended walls increase the feeling of space. Wireless Internet access (fee) means guests can stay connected throughout the hotel. Residents can also catch up with news via the plasma screen TV in the library (a public space off the lobby).

Insider tip: The Zen Garden, the large ornamental garden in front of the hotel, was used for the final wedding scene in the blockbuster UK film, Four Weddings and a Funeral. Owned by the hotel, this beautifully sculpted garden is for the exclusive use of guests.

PROPERTY AMINITIES :

The Zen Garden is the perfect setting for outdoor functions and has hosted celebrity weddings and provided the location for film and photo shoots. The ornamental garden, with its Yew trees and herb-filled borders, is for the exclusive use of guests.

The hotel has a range of facilities for meetings, events, photo shoots and product launches. It can cater from a private meal for two in the Jade Room, a private room next to the I-Thai restaurant, to a garden party for 400. No 17 is a ground floor meeting space with a terrace overlooking the Zen Garden.

ROOMS :

This hotel has 35 guestrooms, all of which are individually designed. All have natural colors, such as honey, beige and flax, or darker shades, including dove gray, slate and black. Handleless floor to ceiling doors lead to the bathrooms and wardrobes. 100% Egyptian cotton bedding by Frette is ironed on the bed each morning. Pillows are duck down. Bathrooms are also individual and range from the traditional Japanese-style stone tub, to the sunken tub and the free-standing tub. All rooms have CD player, wireless Internet access (fee) and fax machine.

DINING :

I-Thai Restaurant - Situated in the basement and accessed by a dark low-lit Perspex staircase, the hotel’s restaurant seats 80 and features hanging walls, a high ceiling and open fireplace. Simple black tables and soft white chairs match the white plaster walls and dark resin floor. Serves English or continental breakfast, the lunchtime menu features Bento dishes. Dinner is a fusion of Thai, Italian and Japanese cuisine, such as the Green Chicken Curry with Thai Basil and Lime Rice.