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Baglioni Hotel
- Style
- Italian elegance
- Setting
- Parkside Kensington
The Baglioni Hotel is housed in a Georgian building which, although respectable and impeccable, doesn’t allude to the over-the-top grandeur that awaits inside. Children are made welcome, too.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 68, with 53 suites, including three executive suites and two presidential suites.
- Rates
- £260–£1,900 (plus VAT and breakfast).
- Check-out
- Midday.
- Facilities
- Plasma TVs, free use of an extensive film and music library, spa and fitness centre, WiFi in the lobby, valet parking, beauty salon.
- Children
- Special beds, cots, and babysitting service all available.
- Also
- Butler service is included. Private dining possible for up to 60.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- The open-plan Junior Suite 107 has high ceilings, a large walk-in wardrobe, two plasma TVs, a bathtub and walk-in shower.
- Packing tips
- Your jogging kit, rollerblades or Frisbee, since the park is on your doorstep. Bread to feed the ducks in the Serpentine.
- Also
- A personal shopper can be at your disposal if your money's burning a hole in your pocket.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Classic Italian dining in brasserie-style Brunello, or on its terrace.
- Dress code
- Dripping in designer: Italian labels, preferably.
- Top table
- To the side of a window overlooking Kensington Gardens, or next to the fireplace.
- Last orders
- Food 10.45pm; drinks 1am; club 2am.
- Room service
- 24 hours. When the dining room is open, the restaurant menu is available.
- Hotel bar
- Superb martinis are to be had in Brunello or on the terrace. The downstairs members’ club Sixty has a capacity of 150; DJs play hip hop and house 19h-02h.
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Local restaurants
Refuel after a hard day’s shopping, on well-presented Modern British and European dishes at the Fifth Floor in destination department store Harvey Nichols on Knightsbridge (020 7235 5250). Gourmets will love the daily-changing set menu in the pretty white interior of Clarke’s on Kensington Church Street (020 7221 9225). Long-time favourite with ladies who lunch, San Lorenzo on Beauchamp Place (020 7584 1074) is Italian, cosy and surprisingly low-key. Lovers of Japanese cuisine should put Zuma on Raphael Street (020 7584 1010) top of their list; book ahead. Lonsdale House on Lonsdale Road (020 7727 4080) is a stylish backdrop for elegant tapas-sized dishes and incredible cocktails. Pétrus at the Berkeley on Wilton Place (020 7235 1200), for Marcus Wareing’s exceptional French cuisine.
Local bars
Boujis on Thurloe Street (020 7584 6678) is a bijou bar where the fashionable flock. Book a private party at Apartment 195 on King’s Road (020 7351 5195), a sexy nocturnal lounge bar in a listed building. Kensington Roof Gardens on Kensington High Street (020 7937 7994) boasts a restaurant, a club and an acre and a half of tropical greenery.
Diary
Recommended rooms
This child-friendly hotel has large rooms, but the Executive Junior Suites have a separate living area. Cots are complimentary; extra beds cost £50 a night. If you want to use your baby monitor in the restaurant, go for a room on the first floor.
Activities
Whizz around Kensington Gardens on the hotel's bicycles. They're included in the price, and children's helmets and baby seats are both available.
Meals
Children are welcome for all meals in the Brunello Restaurant, which serves mainly organic food. The Baglioni can provide child-friendly packed lunches, as well as heating up milk and baby food for you.
Babysitting
This can be arranged at £15 an hour, but needs to be booked 24 hours in advance.
Baby-listening
Baby monitors work in the restaurant from first-floor rooms.
No need to pack
Cots, high chairs and child-friendly utensils are provided in the restaurant, and you can hire a pushchair for a small fee.
Also
Each floor of the hotel has a dedicated guest butler, who'll be happy to help you by unpacking your cases and getting jam-covered clothes to the laundry; this way, when you arrive you can start enjoying yourself straight away instead of struggling with clutter. The in-room entertainment systems have a good range of downloadable child-friendly films. All rooms have mini-bars; use them to store milk and perishable baby food or favourite snacks.
