It was only last month that we brought you the scandalously stylish new designer rooms at Shoreditch’s unique luxury-budget sensation, the Hoxton Hotel. Owned by Prêt A Manger founder, Sinclair Beecham, the hotel have added free use of iMacs – and most excitingly – iPads to the list of guest freebies that includes Wi-Fi, phone calls and Prêt breakfasts. Located in their new ‘iHox’ area, we believe they’re currently the only London hotel to offer totally free use of Apple’s latest gift from the gods… the others offering them with rates, deposits or executive suite perks. And don’t you just love the accompanying security signage?
From the latest boutique, luxury and design hotel openings to up-and-coming destinations along with innovative, creative insights into the travel industry.
Hoxton Hotel’s New iHox Area
boundary-pushing Shoreditch hotel's new Apple area...
August 18th, 2010
LUXE City Guides White Tiger Chest
exquisite collaboration with luxury Chinese brand....
August 2nd, 2010
We already love LUXE City Guides’ super-cool and straight to the point pocket-sized travel companions, so, we’re understandably blown away by this utterly opulent celebration of the Year of The Tiger courtesy of an exclusive collaboration between über-chic Chinese brand, Shanghai Tang, and LUXE. Limited to 70 individually numbered and engraved boxes, which are “handmade in maple and ebony veneer maquetry, lined in ultra-elegant kumquat silk” and packed with 30 LUXE City Guides, it’ll set you back around £900 – but, if you’re looking for wallet-draining restaurants, boutiques and hotels in the likes of Phuket, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City, Dubai and Los Angeles then this may well not pose a problem….
Virgin Atlantic’s Upper Class Suite
our Virgin Upper Class New York press trip, volume two....
July 30th, 2010
So, last week we gave you the lowdown on Virgin’s spectacular Heathrow Clubhouse – and promised you more details on our recent New York press trip. Well, here’s our next update, this time shamelessly boasting about filling you in on one of the world’s premier first class cabins…..
Virgin Atlantic Heathrow Clubhouse
our Virgin Upper Class New York press trip, volume one....
July 20th, 2010
If you follow us on Twitter, then you may well have noticed that a few weeks ago yours truly was whisked off to New York, courtesy of Virgin Atlantic’s internationally renowned Upper Class service. Now, to Virgin, first class doesn’t just mean turning left when you board the plane, jumping queues, or even a swanky lounge with serve yourself drinks and snacks…. no, Virgin’s take on first class is extending the full VIP treatment – and coming immediately after 6 days in a field in Somerset, this was going to be some well needed luxury……
Hoxton Hotel’s New Rooms
designers let loose on new rooms at luxury budget hotel.....
July 19th, 2010
Shoreditch’s unique luxury-budget – yes, it appears the two can sit side by side – hotel, runs a similar price structure to that of budget airlines, with a low rate available for those booking well in advance and prices increasing as the arrival date nears. It’s a simple but effective concept, and along with super-cool interiors, a bustling bar and restaurant and their sensationally popular £1 room sales, it’s a concept which has brought the Hoxton Hotel huge success. Not content with standing still however, the hotel has recently tasked 3 designers – namely Project Orange, Suzy Hoodless and Adrian Kilby – to work their magic on 3 new rooms, all with ‘East London’ as a theme. The results are predictably outstanding, and each of the new rooms look staggeringly stylish. We’re hoping to get inside them very soon and bring you a more detailed report on the rooms and their designers, until then, here’s some cracking, hot off the press photographs to whet your appetite….
Corona ‘Save the Beach’ Hotel
German artist's central Rome hotel is, quite literally, rubbish.....
June 8th, 2010
Last week saw the launch of a pop-up hotel concept by German artist HA Schult – most famous for his ‘Trash Men’ – for Corona Extra Beer’s ‘Corona Save The Beach‘ initiative. The hotel, a conceptual look at how we can expect to see our beaches if dramatic changes are not made sooner rather than later, is constructed almost entirely of garbage and rather amazingly had a supermodel guest as it’s first, and by all accounts she braved an evening – in support of World Environment Day – on one of it’s 2 floors……
Shoreditch Rooms at Shoreditch House
East London's finest members' club, now with added rooms....
June 2nd, 2010
Overlooking Foster’s sensational Gherkin, the nearby ‘City’, and Shoreditch itself, Shoreditch House boasts a rooftop pool, garden bar, ‘lazy lawn’ and BBQ on it’s mind-blowing Roof Top, whilst below are numerous bars, a two-lane bowling alley, sauna and steam rooms, gym, Cowshed Spa and a range of dining options…. it’s in short, one of the most mesmerising – and decidedly unpretentious – members’ clubs in the world and part of the all-conquering Soho House group, who boast Soho House Berlin as their latest sensational property. Yet, whilst the design media’s eyes have been firmly fixed on their recent German acquisition, a small collection of rooms have been added to the fold in Shoreditch – offering “vintage twists within an urban setting”. The beautifully furnished, tremendously quaint rooms are realistically titled Tiny, Small and Small+, yet with perfectly reasonable prices to match, they could well find themselves the capital’s most popular stopovers….
London’s East End is not exactly brimming with design hotels. Sure, there’s the Andaz near Liverpool Street Station and plush members’ club Shoreditch House, but in the grit and glamour of E2 there’s a distinct lack of sleeping quarters.
Enter entrepreneurial hotelier Loh Lik Peng and his newly opened Town Hall. Located in Bethnal Green, it’s within walking distance of Brick Lane and Columbia Road, an area yet to experience the gentrification of neighbouring Shoreditch….
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We asked the Portland studio some questions, which they blindly ignored – instead providing us with a delightful insight into their wonderfully twisted minds. Enjoy…..
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Rolling out across Europe in coming weeks is this, rather difficult to watch, advert for Sony’s new range of 3D TVs – courtesy of Sexy Beast director Jonathan Glazer....
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