Hotel in Detail:
A Marriott Luxury & Lifestyle Hotel. The St Eermins Hotel is a Grade II-listed Victorian style hotel with a traditional English style providing elegant and charming surroundings and a restful air. The Hotel interior is dominated by the stunning Baroque Staircase and the wonderful architecture of the lobby (where afternoon tea can be enjoyed).In keeping with the overall feel of the hotel the bedrooms have a classic English feel but with a contemporary style. A global, textural influence lends a calming feel to each bedroom. The rooms cover eight different categories of accommodation type and every one of them is individually styled and designed.
Room amenities include en-suite facilities (bath, shower, white company toiletries, fluffy bathrobes), air-conditioning, high speed internet access (wired and wireless), safe, ironing board, flat screen TV, radio with MP3 dock, trouser press, direct dial telephone with voicemail, minibar, tea/coffee maker (cafetiere) and hairdryer. Each room has a desk with multi national electrical sockets. Rooms have both wired and wireless internet access.
Room configurations include superior rooms, one hundred deluxe rooms and eight suites.
Rooms adapted for accessibility are available. Room service is provided 24 hours. Guests staying in the suites have access to the Club lounge.
Dining Options:
Caxton Grill: A stylish restaurant serving innovative modern European food founded on seasonal and local ingredients. Striking interiors with a warm and inviting atmosphere. The Caxton Quick menu is ideal for a time-pressed business lunch the full Caxton Grill menu offers a wide variety of dishes for a more leisurely dining experience. The kitchen features a Josper Grill, an innovative cooking method that imparts a distinctive charcoal flavour to all the meat and fish placed upon its coals.Caxton Bar: Fully licensed with full range of drinks. Serves a snack menu alongside the drinks.
The Caxton Terrace is unique to St. Ermins hotel, an alfresco space overlooking the tree-lined courtyard and the same menu as The Caxton Bar.
Traditional afternoon tea is served in the hotel lobby.
The business traveller is well served with 15 meeting and conference rooms fitted with up-to-the-minute equipment. The largest room can accommodate up to 250 delegates. The majority of these rooms enjoy air-conditioning along with the use of natural daylight.
The St Ermins Hotel has its own library furnished with antiques.
WIFI internet access is offered at this hotel (charges apply).
Hotel Vicinity:
Nearest: Tube Station: St.James"s Park 105 yards (96 metres), Railway Station: London Victoria 0.5 miles (0.8 km), DLR Station: Tower Gateway 2.8 miles (4.4 km), Motorway: M4 Junction 1 6.2 miles (10 km).The St. Ermin's Hotel London is situated in the heart of central London in a relatively quiet side turning off of Victoria Street. Just around the corner from St James's tube station and Victoria Street which is yards away and is always a great place to hail a black cab or catch one of the several buses that have routes along this major road. A short walk from Parliament Square (0.2 miles) which is home to the Houses of Parliament , The House of Lords and Westminster Abbey . Just across Westminster Bridge which starts by parliament Square is the London Eye (Millennium Wheel) (0.7 miles) which is probably the most popular attraction in London. To the rear of the Hotel is St James's Park which is the South side of the grounds of Buckingham Palace (0.3 miles). To the North East at 0.7 miles is Trafalgar Square. This is a major landmark and events venue in its own right. On the North side of the square is the National gallery while the square is used to celebrate events such as the Chinese New Year and New Years Eve itself. The famous fountain with its surrounding lions is often a used an an impromptu bath and shower for visitors celebrating a particular event. Its should be stressed however that this is not actually allowed. Nearby major shopping can be found at Bond Street (fashion and jewellery) (0.7 miles), Regent Street (0.8 miles) and the Kings Road Chelsea (1.1 miles).
Bedroom Numbers: 331
Check-in: 14.00 (2 pm)
Check-out: 12.00 noon
This hotel has averaged a score of 4.7 out of 5 by 9347 past guests
Booking. com (average customer rating 4.5 out of 5 from 868 reviews)
>>>Tripadvisor (ranked 7 of 1162 for hotels in London and rated 4.7 out of 5 from 8479 reviews)
Parking:
Private parking is possible at a location nearby (reservation is not needed) and costs £55 per day.Internet:
WiFi is available in all areas and is free of charge.Pets:
Pets are not allowed.More hotels from this chain
You may be thinking your only preferred choice is still going to be the Marriott chain your closest choices would be:
Marriott County Hall Hotel: is 0.7 miles (1.1 km) away, has a guest satisfaction score of 86% and rates start from about £356.
Park Tower Knightsbridge: is 1.1 miles (1.7 km) from here, earns a customer rating of 79% and base rates begin at about £316.
Grosvenor House (A JW Marriott Hotel): 1.2 miles (1.9 km), rated at 86% and with rates from around £357.
Marriott Grosvenor Square: 1.2 miles (1.9 km), rated at 80% and with rates from around £322.
Compared to other London hotels: This hotel has been rated 94% by past guests. The London average is 80% and the average for 4 star hotels is 82%. Therefore this hotel is well above average for its sector (star rating) and for London as a whole.
Marriott Hotels have an average guest rating of 83%. The St. Ermins Hotel with its rating of 94% is therefore not just well above average for this chain but is our highest rated Marriott hotel.
Milesfaster ranking: 45th from 853 London hotels, 1st of 23 Marriott Hotels, and 12th of 341 four star rated hotels.
Another to Consider:
Also close by and a similar hotel (0.1 miles, 0.2 km) would be the 4 star St James Court, A Taj Hotel,
whose lowest rates start at about £280 and which has an 87% guest satisfaction rating. The St James Court, A Taj Hotel also offers: a spa.
Perhaps you would prefer a cheaper option? In that case one to look at is the Rochester Hotel by Blue Orchid. 0.3 miles
away (0.5 km), has scored 75%
from former guests where rates start from approximately £119. Can we suggest something with a higher guest score? We suggest the 5 Star 51 Buckingham Gate Taj Suites seems like a possible option. The 51 Buckingham Gate Taj Suites is only 0.1 miles (0.2 km) away. The 51 Buckingham Gate Taj Suites has a perfect unblemished customer rating 99%, a truly stunning achievement.
Local hotels analysed:
The fifty closest hotels from here (2 Caxton Street, SW1 postcode) that we have data for cover a 0.7 miles (1.1 km) radius. The 50 consist of 16 five star hotels (average rating 91%), 17 four star hotels (average rating 83%), 15 three star hotels (average rating 76%) and 2 two star hotels (average rating 65%). Top 4 star hotel is The Resident Victoria at 96%. Of these hotels the highest rated are 51 Buckingham Gate Taj Suites (5 star), the 41 Hotel (5 star) and also the Goring Hotel (5 star) (all joint top with 99%).Base Rates: See how the area stacks up for low rates using base rates. We use published base rates but note these do not reflect special offers or short term discounts so remain a rough guide.
Of the 50 closest hotels analysed we have base rate data for 48 of them. We have calculated the average base rate for all the 50 nearby hotels at £226 per night. The low end of the scale shows rates from £50 at The Z Hotel Victoria (3 Star, 78%) to a high of £840 at Ritz Hotel London (5 Star, 90%). Rate averages for each star rating: Five Star average: £411, Four Star average: £163, Three Star average: £93 and Two Star average: £49.
Summary:
We use a proprietary algorithm to rank hotels based on user reviews but adjusting for contributing factors. We rank St. Ermins Hotel 8th (joint) of the 50 local hotels and 2nd for the 17 four star hotels in the area. Our ranking for sheer lowest base rates is 31st of 48 (15th of 17 four star hotels.). To give an overall ranking compared to hotels nearby we combine the rating and base rate scores which gives this hotel a ranking of 39th of 48 for sheer bang for buck (Z Hotel Piccadilly was top).
History:
The St Eermins Hotel sits on the site of a 15th-century monastery founded by King Henry VII after being shipwreck off the coast of Brittany. He gave credit for his survival to St Ermin, a Welsh saint. Built as mansion flats in 1887 and converted to a hotel in 1900.Became a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel in 2013.
Became a MGallery collection hotel in 2010. Mgallery is part of the Accor hotel group.
Sold by NH Hoteles in April 2010 for £65 million pounds to US real estate development company Amerimar Enterprises. NH Hoteles acquired the St Eermins hotel in 2006 after taking over control of Jollys Hotels group.
£30 million pound refurbishment 2011. The hotel closed from 4th January 2011 to April 2011.
Additions to the hotel in 2005 saw the installation of two lifts for accessibility, one giving access to the hotel restaurant and the other is installed at the hotel entrance.