Mr & Mrs Smith

The Cranley Hotel

London, United Kingdom

Sitting quietly on an attractive South Ken side street, The Cranley Hotel in London is the perfect townhouse-from-home. With its mahogany antiques, Regency-period palette and prettily embroidered bedheads, it's an ideal base for a spot of Anglo-centric shopping, sightseeing and tea-taking. 

Need to know

• Rooms 39, including a Junior and a Penthouse suite.
• Rates Double rooms from £170.00, excluding tax at 20 per cent.
  The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (£170) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Rates are room only, but include a welcome drink, daily paper and glass of champagne served with canapés between 7pm and 8pm. Breakfast is £9.95 a person for Continental; £17.95 for full English (à la carte options are available, too).
• Facilities Laundry, concierge, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: handmade beds, flatscreen TV, minibar, iPod dock, Penhaligon's toiletries, slippers, robes. DVD players and hairdryers on request.
• Check-out 12 noon. Earliest check-in, 2pm.
• Children Welcome. Cots (free) and extra beds (£40 a night) for children under 12 can be added to larger room categories (Executive and above); some rooms interconnect. Babysitting can be booked from £12–£30 an hour (minimum four hours).
• Also In-room spa and beauty treatments can be arranged, and if you can't do without your daily training fix, the hotel can hook you up with a local gym. Guide dogs only, by prior arrangement.

Food and drink at The Cranley Hotel

• Hotel restaurant

  There's no restaurant, but you can order dinner for your room, tea in the lounge or breakfast in bed.

• Dress code Thomas Pink, John Smedley and Paul Smith are frequent visitors here.
• Top table There are only a handful of tables downstairs, so whichever's free; in summer, take your drinks to one of the tiny patios in front of the hotel.
• Last orders There's an honesty bar set up in the lounge, and there's almost always someone at reception on hand to pour you a drink. Otherwise your minibar is open all night.
• Room service For a hotel with no dining room or restaurant, the Cranley has a surprisingly good room-service selection on its round-the-clock menu. There are no tea-making facilities in rooms, though, so you'll have to order up hot drinks.
• Hotel bar

  No bar, but you can have drinks in the lounge or in your room; all guests are offered champagne and canapés from 7pm–8pm every evening. Snuggle up on the fireside settee for a nightcap after an evening out.

The Cranley Hotel 10 Bina Garden, South Kensington, London SW5 0LA