Discover Firmdale boutique hotels in Kensington, United Kingdom

Home to Wills and Kate (the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge reside in the ‘not too shabby’ Kensington Palace), the royal borough of Kensington is graceful and green, with genteel white and red-brick townhouses and well-groomed Kensington Gardens, leading through to Hyde Park. The city’s most-coveted (and expensive) real estate and the royal connection have attracted well-heeled shops and five-star restaurants, and a bevy of ‘dress to impress’ bars – the Kensington Roof Gardens even has a resident flamboyance of flamingoes. Stay here and the museum quarter triumvirate (the Victoria & Albert Museum, Science Museum and Natural History Museum – all free entry) and Royal Albert Hall are a short stroll away.

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