Blakes Hotel
Style Orient excess
Setting Secluded SW7
Blakes Hotel – the very name conjures up a whole era of modern decadence. Each room at Anouska Hempel's South Ken boutique hotel has its own style, but all are inspired by various far-off lands: Russia, India, Turkey… The decor, while perhaps a little too redolent of the Eighties for some, is testament to Ms Hempel's impeccable taste and astonishing attention to detail.
Need to know
- Rooms 47.
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Rates
Double rooms from $332.15 (£219), 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 (£219) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
- More details Rates exclude breakfast.
- Facilities Free WiFi throughout. Massage and therapy room with a full range of treatments (book in advance) and gym.
- Check-out Midday, but flexible (subject to availability).
- Children Children very welcome; babysitters and nannies available on request.
- Also Every guest receives a welcome drink on arrival.
Food and drink at Blakes Hotel
- Hotel restaurant The seductively lit, boudoir-chic restaurant at Blakes offers Modern European dining with Eastern influences: try pan-fried oysters with sesame seeds and sweet soy, wok-fried salt-and-pepper soft-shell crabs, Dover sole or beef teriyaki. There's also some serious caviar-devotee temptation in the form of Beluga or Oscietra dishes. You can have a relaxed breakfast here, from 7am until late.
- Dress code Sheer glamour: this is the 'couture' hotel, after all.
- Top table Table 11, tucked away at the back of the restaurant. That said, all the tables are good.
- Last orders 10:45pm in the restaurant. You can also order from the room-service menu and eat in the Chinese Room (also known as Opium Den) 24 hours a day.
- Room service 24 hours. The all-day menu has moreish morsels from ponzu giner broth with Moneybags (dim sum) to Blakes burgers.
Also worth knowing
- Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...
Blakes Hotel 33 Roland Gardens, London, South Kensington SW7 3PF
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In the know
Our favourite rooms
The Corfu Suite, which you enter from the garden; the Cardinal Suite (all in luscious reds); the Empress Josephine Suite with tented bed and a rich colour scheme of ebony and gold. If you're a book lover, try the grandiose librarian suite. The following room types sparkle from recent refurbishments: the Parisian Single, Luxury Double, Director's Double and Luxury Suite.
Packing tips
Nothing practical.
