Archive for February 13th, 2009
Double Room. Excluding breakfast.
Boasting an extensive spa and a stunning swimming pool, this luxurious contemporary hotel has a great location, where London’s West End meets the financial district of the City.
Within easy walking distance of the British Museum, Covent Garden and the theatres and attractions of Leicester Square, the Grange Holborn is fast becoming a London landmark.
This elegant 5-star hotel has a unique Romanesque swimming pool. There is also a fully equipped gym, a steam room and a sauna. The spa offers a range of relaxing and therapeutic health and beauty treatments.
Spacious and elegant, the Constellations restaurant offers modern international cuisine.
Open to residents 24 hours a day, the Hermes Lounge Bar offers a wide range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, with everything from cocktails to traditional afternoon tea.
With a lively and vibrant atmosphere, the Koto Japanese Restaurant offers a unique blend of the very best authentic Japanese cuisine, prepared with the freshest of ingredients.
There are 201 luxurious bedrooms and suites, all boasting the very latest in comforts and facilities. All of the spacious air-conditioned rooms are flooded with natural light and many have panoramic views across central London. Each beautifully appointed room features elegant furniture, hand carved from solid rosewood.
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Standard Double Room. Including breakfast.
The Darlington Hyde Park is located on Sussex Gardens in the Paddington Hyde Park area of London, within a 5-minute walk of Paddington Station Heathrow Express Terminal.
Once a stately Victorian terraced town house, The Darlington has high-standard accommodation with modern facilities to meet everyone's expectations.
The comfort and safety of all guests is key to every member of staff, from attention to detail on cleanliness and hygiene, to high levels of professional customer service.
The Darlington Hyde Park is always an enjoyable stay. It prides itself on being a strictly non-smoking establishment.
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Double Room. Including breakfast.
A haven of relaxation and calm amid the hectic bustle of London's West End, this hotel is bright, stylish and contemporary with a friendly, enthusiastic can-do approach.
Attractive, light, comfortable, modern and well designed accommodation is all en suite, equipped with LCD cable TVs and hospitality trays. We're continually improving the hotel to make your stay even better. The hotel was renovated in October 2006. We are now entirely a non-smoking property.
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Standard Double Room. Including breakfast.
The Darlington Hyde Park is located on Sussex Gardens in the Paddington Hyde Park area of London, within a 5-minute walk of Paddington Station Heathrow Express Terminal.
Once a stately Victorian terraced town house, The Darlington has high-standard accommodation with modern facilities to meet everyone's expectations.
The comfort and safety of all guests is key to every member of staff, from attention to detail on cleanliness and hygiene, to high levels of professional customer service.
The Darlington Hyde Park is always an enjoyable stay. It prides itself on being a strictly non-smoking establishment.
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Standard Room. Excluding breakfast.
With a superb location in the bustling heart of London’s St Pancras, opposite the spectacular Gothic façade of the train station, this 4-star hotel offers stylish, luxurious and contemporary accommodation.
The hotel boasts 49 comfortable en suite rooms, many of which overlook the impressive exterior of St Pancras station. All of the stylish and contemporary rooms have unique furnishings and bespoke fittings offering simple, perfect comfort. Every room boasts a range of facilities as standard. It is in the details that the hotel’s quality really shows through and you will find a high-quality espresso machine and a key-coded safe for your valuables. When you have settled in you can enjoy music and movies at any time via the media system.
The hotel offers sleek, well-equipped contemporary accommodation and great modern facilities and services in a prime location, opposite St Pancras train station and the new terminal area for Eurostar trains to continental Europe.
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Double. Excluding breakfast.
This beautiful, restored Georgian town house is next to the British Museum and close to the West End and the financial district.
The restaurant at the Clarendon overlooks the hotel’s private walled garden and offers 24-hour room service.
The nearby Russell Square Tube Station is served by the Piccadilly Line, which goes directly to Heathrow Airport terminals.
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Standard Double Room. Including breakfast.
The Darlington Hyde Park is located on Sussex Gardens in the Paddington Hyde Park area of London, within a 5-minute walk of Paddington Station Heathrow Express Terminal.
Once a stately Victorian terraced town house, The Darlington has high-standard accommodation with modern facilities to meet everyone's expectations.
The comfort and safety of all guests is key to every member of staff, from attention to detail on cleanliness and hygiene, to high levels of professional customer service.
The Darlington Hyde Park is always an enjoyable stay. It prides itself on being a strictly non-smoking establishment.
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A two-level high-intermediate/advanced course, Summit is the perfect next step for learners who have completed a beginning to intermediate-level course. Summit develops competence and confidence in all four skills. Summit's simple instructional design has two essential, motivating features: Concise two-page multiple skills lessons are each designed for one class session, cmmunication activities at the end of each lesson enable students to set their own progress.
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Paul Sheldon, a writer of historical romances, is in a car accident; rescued by nurse Annie Wilkes, he slowly realizes that salvation can be worse than death. Sheldon has killed off Misery Chastain, the popular protagonist of his Misery series and Annie, who has a murderous past, wants her back.
Written by Stephen King; Dramatised by Dirk Maggs. First broadcast on the BBC World Service, September 2004. Starring Nicholas Farrel and Miriam Margoyles. What you are about to hear is an adaptation of the stage play, which premiered in London's West End. It stars 2 of Britain's finest actors: Miriam Margoyles, perhaps best-known as the dog Fly in the film Babe and the nurse in Romeo and Juliette and Nicholas Farrell, whose films include Chariots of Fire and Pearl Harbor.
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A psychological tale of cinematic horror.
On Halloween night, following an unnerving phone call from his diabetic mother, Hale and six of his med school classmates return to the house where his sister disappeared years ago. While there is no sign of his mother, something is waiting for them there, and has been waiting a long time.
Written as a literary film treatment littered with footnotes and obscure nuances, Demon Theory is even parts camp and terror, combining glib dialogue, fascinating pop culture references, and an intricate subtext as it pursues the events of a haunting movie trilogy too real to dismiss.
There are books about movies and movies about books, and then there's Demon Theory- a refreshing and occasionally shocking addition to the increasingly popular intelligent horror genre.
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