Covent Garden Hotel
Covent Garden Hotel is located in Central London
Covent Garden Hotel
Location within Central London
General information
Location10 Monmouth Street
London WC2H 9HB, England
Coordinates51°30′52.31″N 0°7′37.42″W / 51.5145306°N 0.1270611°W / 51.5145306; -0.1270611
Other information
Number of rooms58

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 Drawing Room at Covent Garden Hotel

The hotel's 58 bedrooms and suites are designed by co-owner and creative director 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 a restaurant called 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, Robert De Niro, Kiefer Sutherland and Kate Winslet.

Notes

  1. ^ Katja Gaskell. "Lonely Planet review". Lonely Planet. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013.
  2. ^ Fiona Duncan (13 December 2009). "Country house hotels: New life in the country". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 15 December 2009. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  3. ^ Design Hotels Archived 2010-12-25 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 15 December 2009
  4. ^ "Courtney Love Trashes the Covent Garden Hotel". Hotel Chatter. 12 July 2007. Archived from the original on 18 December 2009. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  5. ^ "Not-so-simple Simon" by Andrew Billen, Evening Standard (London), 16 January 2002
  6. ^ Match Point Archived 2010-12-15 at the Wayback Machine at Film London
  7. ^ "Celebrity secrets: The city slickers". Archived from the original on 16 October 2009. Retrieved 26 December 2010.
  8. ^ Claire Rudebeck (16 February 2005): "Stockard Channing: One tough cookie" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, The Independent

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