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10 Beaufort Gardens , London
SW3 1PT


Knightsbridge Hotel

London, United Kingdom [view map]

Style
Flamboyant fabrics, tactile textures
Setting
A hop from Harrods

A medley of luxuriant colour, statement furniture and unusual art greets guests stepping into the lobby of Knightsbridge Hotel, Kit Kemp’s characteristically whimsical take on the townhouse boutique bed and breakfast.

Need to know

Need to know, Knightsbridge Hotel, London, UK
Rooms
44, including two suites.
Rates
£210–£495, excluding breakfast (Continental, £16.50, full English, £17.50) and VAT.
Check-out
11am, but later check-out may be possible by arrangement. Check-in, 2pm.
Facilities
Library, DVD selection, WiFi throughout (£20 for 24 hours), valet parking. In rooms: flatscreen TV, DVD/CD player, DAB Tivoli radio with iPod dock, minibar, free bottled water, Miller Harris toiletries.
Children
Baby cots are free; extra beds for older kids are £40 a night. Babysitting can be arranged with a local nanny for £8 an hour (four-hour minimum) and £10 taxi fare.

In the know

Our favourite rooms
The Knightsbridge Suite is the hotel’s showpiece, with a sumptuous canopy bed (complete with cheekily mirrored headboard) – all topped with a massive wrought-iron chandelier that hangs in front of the fireplace. Deluxe Double 209 looks out over the rooftops of Knightsbridge and the iconic (but inexplicable) Harrods chimney. As you’d expect from Kit Kemp, all rooms are individually and lavishly designed, with running themes including tailor’s dummies, oversized headboards and artworks of Peter Clark’s West Highland Terrier (a nod to nearby Harrods).
Packing tips
Bring a credit card with plenty of headroom and a bag with space to stash – Knightsbridge is the motherland of luxury shopping. Actually, forget the bag, Mulberry’s at the end of the street.

Food & drink

Food and drink, Knightsbridge Hotel, London, UK
Hotel restaurant
Knightsbridge Hotel doesn’t have a restaurant, but, being located beside the culinary heart of London, it doesn’t need one. Most guests take breakfast in their rooms, but dining in the living room and the library can provide a cosy and sociable start to the day.
Dress code
Dandies and dames.
Top table
The cosy, colourful sofas in the library are the ideal places to curl up with a chunky novel and a self-made cocktail.
Last orders
You can plunder the honesty bar day and night.
Room service
There’s a 24 hour à la carte menu available, which includes three-course meals.
Hotel bar
There’s no formal bar, but the in-room minibars are superbly stocked and there’s a huge and gleaming honesty bar beside the library, packed with full fridges, row upon row of premium spirits and everything a show-off mixologist might need.

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Knightsbridge Hotel

10 Beaufort Gardens , London

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Knightsbridge Hotel

London, United Kingdom [view map]

Local restaurants

Take an appetite-honing stroll to Chelsea’s hugely impressive Ambassade de L’Ile on Old Brompton Road (+44 (0)20 7373 7774) – the second outpost of masterful Michelin-starred French chef Jean-Cristophe Ansanay-Alex. If the exclusively-priced à la carte dinner menu is a deterrent, the set lunch menus (two courses, £25; three courses, £35) are good value. Lovers of Japanese cuisine should put Zuma on Raphael Street (+44 (0)20 7584 1010) top of their list – and remember to book ahead.Head to the super-trendy gourmet Brazilian Mocotó (+44 (0)20 7225 2300), where beautiful people sip caipirinha cocktails upstairs, then fuel up on nuevo latino fare. Other good options not far from Knightsbridge Hotel include the bistros at The Pelham or The Gore, French restaurant Aubaine at 262 Brompton Road (+44 (0)20 7052 0100), and for excellent Iberian tapas, Casa Brindisa at 7–9 Exhibition Road, (+44 (0)20 7590 0008).

Local bars

 Kumo (www.kumoknightsbridge.com) on neighbouring Beauchamp Place is a stylish Japanese cocktail bar that serves up sushi by expert chefs from Zuma and Nobu.

Nightlife

The infamous Boujis (www.boujis.com) on Thurloe Street  is where the fashionable Kensington crowd flock.

Worth getting out of bed for

With just a short walk to South Kensington, you're close to the Royal Albert Hall, the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum and the wonderful V&A, as well as Kensington Palace and Hyde Park (where you can also visit the Serpentine Gallery). Buckingham Palace is also eminently strollable. However, Knightsbridge’s crowning glory is its shopping; not just the headlining acts of Harrods and Harvey Nichols, but all the designer draws of Brompton Cross and Sloane Street too.

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