The Gore 
London, United Kingdom [view map]
- Style
- Victorian opulence
- Setting
- London's museum-land
This stylish London hotel perfectly blends the feel of an art-lover's grand private home with the relaxed bonhomie of a rather decadent members’ club.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 50.
- Rates
- £149–£440, excluding breakfast and VAT.
- Check-out
- 11.30am, but flexible depending on room occupancy.
- Facilities
- All rooms have LCD TVs, CD/DVD players and Aveda toiletries; the hotel has an extensive DVD library as well.
- Children
- Welcome: quite a few rooms have sofa beds. Babysitting on request.
- Also
- The hotel is affiliated with the nearby Aveda spa. Also, no pets are allowed.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Miss Ada has four-poster, red-velvet curtains and a throne toilet in the bathroom – really. The bed in Venus belonged to Judy Garland, with theatre curtains. Tudor Room has an open fireplace, stained-glass windows, a four-poster bed and a gallery.
- Packing tips
- Suitable footwear for walking or jogging in nearby Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- The hotel's dining room, Restaurant 190, has an excellent modern British menu, and its focal point is a huge chandelier.
- Dress code
- No rules.
- Top table
- One set in the bay window overlooking tree-lined Queen's Gate.
- Last orders
- 11pm.
- Room service
- Available 24 hours a day.
- Hotel bar
- The candlelit bar, Bar 190, is more like an eccentric gentlemen's drinking den, and has excellent cocktails and a good, long wine list. A resident DJ plays music at weekends. There's a late licence, and no official last orders for hotel residents.
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The Gore
190 Queen's Gate, Kensington, London
