| |
The Halkin
is within walking distance of Hyde Park, Knightsbridge, Sloane
Square and Piccadilly while the financial district is 15 minutes
by taxi. All rooms and suites are designed for absolute comfort
with crisp lines, soft carpets, and floor to ceiling marble
bathrooms. In room facilities are up-to-the-minute; cavernous
baths, walk in showers, anti mist mirrors, warm towels, bathrobes
and a range of Bulgari toiletries are only a few of the many
featured. Each floor of this glamorous hotel has its own soft
colour, drawn from water, air, earth, fire and sky. Many of
the world’s most stylish hotels are heavy on the public
spaces, pouring money into lounges, libraries, drawing rooms,
even private cinemas, while relegating the paying guests to
cramped, uninspired rooms. How this works as a business proposition
is quite beyond our understanding, but in this case it’s
irrelevant—London’s Halkin hotel turns this stereotype
inside out. Here the public spaces amount to little more than
a small but handsome lobby and bar (and of course a restaurant,
of which more later), while the rooms get the star treatment.
|
