Covent Garden Hotel
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| Location |
10 Monmouth Street London WC2H 9HB, England |
| Coordinates | 51°30′52.31″N 0°7′37.42″W / 51.5145306°N 0.1270611°W |
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| Number of rooms | 58 |
Covent Garden Hotel is a 5-star hotel in London, England.[1] It is located in Monmouth Street near Seven Dials in the West End, a short walk away from the Royal Opera House, and is surrounded by some 21 theatres. The hotel is part of Tim and Kit Kemp's Firmdale Hotels.[2]
Style
The reception area and the 58 bedrooms were designed by Kit Kemp. At the reception, there are large curtains and aged wood furnishings. Stone stairs lead up to the first-floor drawing room which has maple-wood panelling. The Tiffany’s Library is also located on the first floor and has a fireplace and bar. The hotel has three private dining rooms, a private 47-seat screening room, and the Brasserie Max, with a pewter bar with an arched mirror. The bedrooms are elegant, with floral motifs, and they have bathrooms made of granite and mahogany. The hotel also has a gym and a spa.[3]
Notable guests
The hotel frequently attracts notable guests. Musician Courtney Love stayed at the hotel in 2007,[4] actor Simon Russell Beale in 2002,[5] The lobby and restaurant of the hotel were used as filming locations in the 2005 film Match Point;[6] Scarlett Johansson, one of that film's main actors, also stayed there. Other well-known guests include the director Peter Jackson, actors Tim Robbins, Meryl Streep,[7] Stockard Channing,[8] Stephen Fry, Geoffrey Rush, Kiefer Sutherland and Kate Winslet.
Attic suite
Brasserie Max Restaurant & Bar
Notes
- ↑ Katja Gaskell. "Lonely Planet review". Lonely Planet.
- ↑ Fiona Duncan (13 December 2009). "Country house hotels: New life in the country". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
- ↑ Design Hotels, Retrieved 15 December 2009
- ↑ "Courtney Love Trashes the Covent Garden Hotel". Hotel Chatter. 12 July 2007. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
- ↑ "Not-so-simple Simon" by Andrew Billen, Evening Standard (London), 16 January 2002
- ↑ Match Point at Film London
- ↑ "Celebrity secrets: The city slickers
- ↑ Claire Rudebeck (16 February 2005): "Stockard Channing: One tough cookie", The Independent
References
- McGrath, Ginny (April 7, 2009). "Covent Garden Hotel, Monmouth St, London, WC2". The Times. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
- Burt, Paddy (11 March 2000). "Paddy Burt: The Covent Garden Hotel, London". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
- Turner, Sarah (9 December 2008). "Hotel focus: Covent Garden Hotel, London". The Mail on Sunday. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
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Coordinates: 51°30′52″N 0°07′37″W / 51.51453°N 0.12706°W