Mr Wolfe’s review of Claridge’s
- Privately owned
- Historic building
- Superb service
- Excellent beds
- Dog-friendly
Claridge’s is less a hotel than a state of mind, and a very agreeable one at that. The Art Deco foyer, the black and white marble, the doormen who remember your name and, more alarmingly, your last visit: it is the closest thing London has to a royal residence that actually wants you there.
Take a martini in the Fumoir, a room so dark and so discreet that marriages have been both saved and ended within its walls. Small dogs are received with the same courtesy as visiting minor royalty, which is to say very graciously indeed.
The beds: Hypnos.
