Three luxury hotels selling off their art deco furniture

Maybourne Hotel Group, which owns Claridge’s, The Connaught and The Berkeley, is set to auction an archive of its fixtures and furniture, giving people a chance to buy some art-deco icons.

Plans to convert the historic Custom House into a hotel blocked

The plans to convert the Georgian-era Custom House building next to the Tower of London into an upmarket hotel have been blocked by the planning inspector.

A post-war hotel at St Pauls

There's a very 1960s era hotel practically on the doorstep of St Paul's Cathedral that was once an office block.

Art Deco cinema saved from conversion into a hotel

A former theatre turned cinema in the West End has been saved from conversion into a hotel after Camden council rejected an appeal from the developer.

London’s grand Custom House set for hotel conversion

Plans to turn the historic Grade 1 listed Custom House building that sits next to the Thames and Tower of London into a hotel have been submitted to the City of London.

Tickets Alert: Art Tour of the Belmond Cadogan Hotel

As part of London Craft Week, delayed this year, the Belmond Cadogan Hotel is offering tours to view many of the original pieces on display throughout the hotel, by mainly British artists

The Londoner hotel – Leicester Square’s tall blue tower

A tall blue tower has risen on a corner of Leicester Square -- a new cinema and hotel due to open shortly.

Approval for hotel covered in plants

The largest green wall in Europe has been approved for the City of London, with a new hotel to go where an old office block currently sits.

Europe’s largest green wall planned for London hotel

Holborn viaduct is a long corridor of unremitting office blocks being very glass and stone, but one could go up that will be covered in green plants.

Inside The Londoner, a new hotel for Leicester Square

A building site next to Leicester Square will soon become a cinema and hotel -- and recently there was a chance to look around while it's still concrete and steel.

The Pilgrim’s Progress remembered in Holborn

A hotel in Holborn also contains a most unexpected statue -- of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress.

Tickets Alert: Hard hat tours of new hotel and cinema in Leicester Square

A large hotel with large cinema some 6 storeys below ground is currently under construction, and there will be tours of the building site next month.

A London Underground themed hotel opens

A hotel near Gloucester Road tube station has been redecorated with a design based on the London Underground.

Tickets Alert: Behind the scene tours of Bloomsbury’s Principal hotel

As part of the Bloomsbury Festival, there's a chance to take in a behind the scenes tour of the grand hotel that dominates the area, the Principal London.

A tour of Grosvenor House Hotel

Another of the Open House London events - a guided tour of one of London's more luxurious hotels, which is probably more famous for its basement, than for its rooms.