Introduction: Located just to the west of central London
the Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Kensington Hotel is convenient for two
major exhibition centres. These are at Earls Court (0.4 miles) and Olympia (0.8
miles). The hotel is just yards from the Cromwell Road which is A4 Dual
Carriageway. This is the major road for traffic entering and leaving London from
the West. It also affords direct road access to Heathrow Airport which takes
around 25 minutes from here with a clear run. It also links up with the M4
motorway and being a major road means you'll always find a taxi to hail. Hogarth
Road itself is a relatively quiet street which is one way and must be entered
from Earls Court Road. Within 200 yards is a major supermarket, Sainsburys, at
157 Cromwell Road. There's also a huge Tesco supermarket less than half a mile
away on Cromwell Road by Warwick Road. Half a mile to the North finds the
fashionable shopping and cafes of
Kensington High Street while the nearest major shopping is along Earls Court
Road. Within 1 mile to the south is the hugely popular and busy
Kings
Road, Chelsea. Other nearby attractions include
Linley Sambourne House (0.5 miles),
Leighton house museum (0.6 miles),
Hyde
Park/Kensington Gardens (0.7 miles),
Natural History Museum (0.7 miles),
Kensington Palace (0.7 miles) and the
Science
Museum (0.8 miles).
Hotel:
The Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Kensington Hotel offers modern
accommodation close to amenities and within easy reach of the most central
London areas.
The Hotel guest rooms are modern in style and have private bathroom facilities
(with toiletries and heated mirror), air conditioning, coffee/tea maker
complimentary coffee, hair dryer, in-room laptop sized safe, iron/ironing board,
trouser press, microwave, refrigerator, direct dial telephones (with voicemail
and answering service), radio, remote control plasma cable TV (with pay movies)
and in-room safe.
Complimentary High speed internet access is available in all rooms. Some upper
floor rooms have balconies. Double Beds are King sized. Some rooms have four
poster beds. Room service is 24 hours. Bath robe and Slippers on request.
Premier Club Rooms feature furniture by designer Philippe Starck.
Floors can be accessed via the lift except for the lower ground floor.
The hotel has a pleasantly appointed dining room, the
RendezVous 2 Restaurant,
serving either a full cooked or a continental breakfast. Diner options include
home style cooked food and American diner-style snacks. The restaurant has a
Moroccan theme.
Open: 07.00 till 10.00, 18.00 till 22.00.
Also onsite is the
Exhibition Bar. Along with drinks the bar also serves
light snacks in a calm ambience.
The cocktail lounge is open 18.00 till 23.00.
Conference and meeting facilities are available in the Premier Conference Suite
with space for up to 70 delegates. The room is air-conditioned with a computer
and internet access, DVD/CD player, flipchart and monitor.
The Best Western Premier Shaftesbury Kensington hotel has its own
air-conditioned fitness room with the latest cardio machines.
Additional services include Concierge assistance, luggage storage and currency
exchange. Hotel is wheelchair accessible. Other features include a 24 hour
reception and concierge service. If you need copy or fax facilities the hotel
offers these services. Wireless internet can be picked up in the public areas.
This is a fully non-smoking establishment.
Parking: Not onsite. Nearby NCP pay car park.
Bedroom Numbers: 133 / 6 floors
Check-in: 14.00 (2 pm)
Check-out: 12.00 noon (late check-out option for extra charge)
Comment: Please note that this hotel is the sister hotel
to the Hogarth Kensington Hotel. The two hotels are on the same street and
opposite one another. The Shaftesbury was previously called the Hogarth, and
when it changed its name that same name was then used for its sister hotel which
up till 2006 was called the Ramsees Hotel.
Please Note: We list two Best Western Shaftesbury Hotels:
The other is near Piccadilly it is the:
>>>
BW Premier
Shaftesbury Piccadilly Hotel
Best Western Premiere:
The 'Premiere' tag to Best Western properties signifies that the hotel has
superior amenities and services to that offered in other hotels of the same
brand, a tag that was first introduced in 2003.
History: Fully refurbished
in 2005. Formerly called The Hogarth Hotel (2005)
